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  • Review
  • Open Access
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A Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Review (B-SLR) of Machine Learning-Based Water Quality Prediction: Trends, Gaps, and Future Directions

  • Jeimmy Adriana Muñoz-Alegría,
  • Jorge Núñez,
  • Ricardo Oyarzún,
  • Cristian Alfredo Chávez,
  • José Luis Arumí and
  • Lien Rodríguez-López

17 October 2025

Predicting the quality of freshwater, both surface and groundwater, is essential for the sustainable management of water resources. This study collected 1822 articles from the Scopus database (2000–2024) and filtered them using Topic Modeling t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
17,466 Views
14 Pages

Systematic Literature Review Analysing Smart Tourism Destinations in Context of Sustainable Development: Current Applications and Future Directions

  • Youssef El Archi,
  • Brahim Benbba,
  • Zhulduz Nizamatdinova,
  • Yerlan Issakov,
  • Gálicz Ivett Vargáné and
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid

13 March 2023

The growing popularity of smart tourism destinations (STDs) has increased the need to investigate their potential impact on sustainable development. This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to analyse the past achievements and future directions o...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,085 Views
19 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on Autonomous Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Anees ul Husnain,
  • Norrima Mokhtar,
  • Noraisyah Mohamed Shah,
  • Mahidzal Dahari and
  • Masahiro Iwahashi

8 February 2023

UAVs have been contributing substantially to multi-disciplinary research and around 70% of the articles have been published in just about the last five years, with an exponential increase. Primarily, while exploring the literature from the scientific...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,619 Views
14 Pages

The Reality of Happiness According to Scholars’ Viewpoints: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) Analysis

  • Noraini Junoh,
  • Zanirah Mustafa@Busu,
  • Ahmad Murshidi Mustapha,
  • Abdul Manam Mohamad and
  • Nurhidayah Muhammad Hashim

Happiness is one of the main topics that dominates the discourse of ethical philosophy. The concept of happiness began to be discussed from the emergence of philosophy in classical Greece to the present day in both Western and Islamic perspectives. T...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,326 Views
48 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Detecting DDoS Attacks in Software-Defined Networking

  • Abdullah Ahmed Bahashwan,
  • Mohammed Anbar,
  • Selvakumar Manickam,
  • Taief Alaa Al-Amiedy,
  • Mohammad Adnan Aladaileh and
  • Iznan H. Hasbullah

1 May 2023

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a revolutionary innovation in network technology with many desirable features, including flexibility and manageability. Despite those advantages, SDN is vulnerable to distributed denial of service (DDoS), which co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
107 Citations
24,654 Views
38 Pages

9 April 2021

A grave concern to an organization’s information security is employees’ behavior when they do not value information security policy compliance (ISPC). Most ISPC studies evaluate compliance and noncompliance behaviors separately. However, the literatu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
19,698 Views
24 Pages

Building information modelling (BIM) has become increasingly popular in construction projects in recent years. Simultaneously, project management has received more attention from academics and practitioners worldwide. Many studies have suggested that...

  • Review
  • Open Access
101 Citations
26,072 Views
27 Pages

Plant-Based Meat Analogues from Alternative Protein: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Izalin Zahari,
  • Karolina Östbring,
  • Jeanette K. Purhagen and
  • Marilyn Rayner

16 September 2022

This study aimed to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) of the research performed in the plant-based meat analogues area. Historical, current, and future tendencies are discussed. The paper offers a comprehensive SLR coupled with a bibliomet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,890 Views
42 Pages

Knowledge Management Model for Smart Campus in Indonesia

  • Deden Sumirat Hidayat and
  • Dana Indra Sensuse

10 January 2022

The application of smart campuses (SC), especially at higher education institutions (HEI) in Indonesia, is very diverse, and does not yet have standards. As a result, SC practice is spread across various areas in an unstructured and uneven manner. KM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,950 Views
20 Pages

14 October 2021

This study investigates the causes of food loss and waste (FLW) from the perspective of logistics service providers (LSPs) and provides sustainable options for the Chinese market. To this end, this study reviews the literature on FLW and cold chain l...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,889 Views
18 Pages

Green entrepreneurial orientation (GEO) is defined as organizations’ entrepreneurial efforts to integrate ecologically sustainable practices and values to undertake sustainable decisions and actions to improve their environmental performance. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,486 Views
28 Pages

1 September 2020

Research and technology commercialization at research-intensive universities has helped to develop provincial economies resulting in university startups, the growth of other new companies and associated employment. University technology transfer offi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,656 Views
17 Pages

Barriers to Adopting Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) in Construction

  • Slim Rebai,
  • Italo Sepúlveda,
  • Wassim AlBalkhy,
  • Olfa Hamdi,
  • Zoubeir Lafhaj,
  • Luis F. Alarcón and
  • Pascal Yim

This study presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) methodology, focusing on identifying barriers to its adoption. The review encompasses an analysis of 287 documents from 2013 to 2023, including conference a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,064 Views
34 Pages

Systematic Literature Review on Test Case Selection and Prioritization: A Tertiary Study

  • Shweta Singhal,
  • Nishtha Jatana,
  • Bharti Suri,
  • Sanjay Misra and
  • Luis Fernandez-Sanz

20 December 2021

Software testing is undertaken to ensure that the software meets the expected requirements. The intention is to find bugs, errors, or defects in the developed software so that they can be fixed before deployment. Testing of the software is needed eve...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
83,739 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Gamification on Motivation and Academic Performance: A Systematic Review

  • Lorena Jaramillo-Mediavilla,
  • Andrea Basantes-Andrade,
  • Marcos Cabezas-González and
  • Sonia Casillas-Martín

This study aims to examine the existing evidence on gamification in educational settings, highlighting its impact on motivation and academic performance. Methodologically, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was developed under the PRISMA statement...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,756 Views
23 Pages

Barriers to the Adoption of Innovations for Sustainable Development in the Agricultural Sector—Systematic Literature Review (SLR)

  • Laura Restrepo Campuzano,
  • Gustavo Adolfo Hincapié Llanos,
  • Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa,
  • Gina Lía Orozco Mendoza,
  • Juan Carlos Palacio and
  • Mariana Herrera

1 March 2023

In this article, we focused on studying the current barriers to implementing innovations in order for the agricultural sector to become more sustainable. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), 73 scientific articles were obtained with a search...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,361 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Circular Bioeconomy on Industry’s Sustainable Performance: A Critical Literature Review and Future Research Directions Analysis

  • Koppiahraj Karuppiah,
  • Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan,
  • Syed Mithun Ali and
  • Ernesto D. R. Santibanez Gonzalez

8 July 2023

The circular bioeconomy (CBE) practice concept has demonstrated its capability in improving the industry’s performance. However, the impact of CBE practice on sustainable industrial performance is less analysed due to a poor understanding of th...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,570 Views
23 Pages

Methods for Indirect Treatment Comparison: Results from a Systematic Literature Review

  • Bérengère Macabeo,
  • Arthur Quenéchdu,
  • Samuel Aballéa,
  • Clément François,
  • Laurent Boyer and
  • Philippe Laramée

Introduction: Health technology assessment (HTA) agencies express a clear preference for randomized controlled trials when assessing the comparative efficacy of two or more treatments. However, an indirect treatment comparison (ITC) is often necessar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
15,540 Views
19 Pages

Complexity in Construction Projects: A Literature Review

  • Zoubeir Lafhaj,
  • Slim Rebai,
  • Wassim AlBalkhy,
  • Olfa Hamdi,
  • Alan Mossman and
  • Angela Alves Da Costa

Improper understanding of complexity can be a leading factor in the failure of construction projects. This study aims to provide a better understanding of the complexity of construction projects. For this purpose, this study uses the systematic liter...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
22,509 Views
31 Pages

12 February 2024

The success of modern businesses hinges on their capability to recognize and explore emerging patterns in consumer behavior within the context of information technology (IT). While the study of consumer behavior has made notable progress, there remai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,510 Views
19 Pages

Construction 4.0 Technologies and Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Gap Analysis

  • Hazwani Shafei,
  • Afiqah R. Radzi,
  • Mohammed Algahtany and
  • Rahimi A. Rahman

13 December 2022

Construction 4.0 involves implementing advanced technologies in construction projects to achieve higher productivity, safety, and sustainability. However, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals are reluctant to adopt Construc...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
19,128 Views
46 Pages

Internet of Things Botnet Detection Approaches: Analysis and Recommendations for Future Research

  • Majda Wazzan,
  • Daniyal Algazzawi,
  • Omaima Bamasaq,
  • Aiiad Albeshri and
  • Li Cheng

20 June 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) is promising technology that brings tremendous benefits if used optimally. At the same time, it has resulted in an increase in cybersecurity risks due to the lack of security for IoT devices. IoT botnets, for instance, have b...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,778 Views
42 Pages

15 January 2025

This work represents a comprehensive and systematic literature review (SLR) that follows the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines for research assessing information and cyber security maturity. The pe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
167 Citations
25,642 Views
32 Pages

Internet of Things (IoT), Building Information Modeling (BIM), and Digital Twin (DT) in Construction Industry: A Review, Bibliometric, and Network Analysis

  • Milad Baghalzadeh Shishehgarkhaneh,
  • Afram Keivani,
  • Robert C. Moehler,
  • Nasim Jelodari and
  • Sevda Roshdi Laleh

22 September 2022

The present study uses a bibliometric and systematic literature review (SLR) to examine the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Digital Twins (DT) in the construction industry. The network visualization and o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,511 Views
23 Pages

1 July 2024

Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is a network architecture created basically to overcome non-continuing connectivity. There has been a great deal of research on this topic, from space communication to terrestrial applications. Since the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,216 Views
43 Pages

A Survey of Cross-Layer Security for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices

  • Mamyr Altaibek,
  • Aliya Issainova,
  • Tolegen Aidynov,
  • Daniyar Kuttymbek,
  • Gulsipat Abisheva and
  • Assel Nurusheva

3 September 2025

Low-power microcontrollers, wireless sensors, and embedded gateways form the backbone of many Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. However, their limited memory, constrained energy budgets, and lack of standardized firmware make them attractive targ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
14,345 Views
31 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated profound changes in the business and technology landscapes, compelling organizations to reassess their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Traditional ERP systems have demonstrated significant limitation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4,143 Views
21 Pages

Systematic Review on the Use of CCPM in Project Management: Empirical Applications and Trends

  • Adriano de Oliveira Martins,
  • Vanderlei Giovani Benetti,
  • Fernando Elemar Vicente dos Anjos,
  • Débora Oliveira da Silva and
  • Charles Jefferson Rodrigues Alves

22 July 2025

This study aims to critically analyze the theoretical and practical contributions of recent literature on the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) method in multi-project environments. To this end, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conduct...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,071 Views
28 Pages

eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in Process Engineering: Promises, Facts, and Current Limitations

  • Luigi Piero Di Bonito,
  • Lelio Campanile,
  • Francesco Di Natale,
  • Michele Mastroianni and
  • Mauro Iacono

30 November 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been swiftly incorporated into the industry to become a part of both customer services and manufacturing operations. To effectively address the ethical issues now being examined by the government, AI models must be ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Citations
42,739 Views
18 Pages

A Review of Last Mile Logistics Innovations in an Externalities Cost Reduction Vision

  • Luigi Ranieri,
  • Salvatore Digiesi,
  • Bartolomeo Silvestri and
  • Michele Roccotelli

12 March 2018

In this paper, a review of the recent scientific literature contributions on innovative strategies for last mile logistics, focusing on externalities cost reduction, is presented. Transport is causing problems in urban areas, in particular in freight...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,270 Views
32 Pages

30 June 2024

Informal learning spaces (ILS) offer unique opportunities for students to interact and develop skills in a more social, resilient, and sustainable environment. However, there is a lack of a definitive typology for ILS and related design factors and o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,329 Views
36 Pages

IoT, AI, and Digital Twins in Smart Cities: A Systematic Review for a Thematic Mapping and Research Agenda

  • Erwin J. Sacoto-Cabrera,
  • Antonio Perez-Torres,
  • Luis Tello-Oquendo and
  • Mariela Cerrada

The accelerating complexity of urban environments has prompted cities to adopt digital technologies that improve efficiency, sustainability, and resilience. Among these, Urban Digital Twins (UDTw) have emerged as transformative tools for real-time re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
213 Citations
21,520 Views
19 Pages

BIM and LCA Integration: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Tajda Potrč Obrecht,
  • Martin Röck,
  • Endrit Hoxha and
  • Alexander Passer

9 July 2020

To foster sustainable development, the environmental impacts of the construction sector need to be reduced substantially. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the established methodology for the quantification of environmental impacts, and therefore has be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
13,946 Views
26 Pages

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems for Children: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Vivek Bhardwaj,
  • Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman,
  • Vinay Kukreja,
  • Youcef Belkhier,
  • Mohit Bajaj,
  • B. Srikanth Goud,
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman,
  • Muhammad Shafiq and
  • Habib Hamam

27 April 2022

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is one of the ways used to transform acoustic speech signals into text. Over the last few decades, an enormous amount of research work has been done in the research area of speech recognition (SR). However, most stu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,599 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2022

This study investigates the main aspects of the quality of service (QoS) assessment process at airport passenger terminals to find gaps, highlight trends, and discuss current day challenges. A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted in Scopu...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,948 Views
33 Pages

26 October 2025

Digital Twin (DT) technology has emerged as a valuable tool for researchers and engineers, enabling them to optimize performance and enhance system efficiency. This paper presents a comprehensive Systematic Literature Review (SLR) following the PRISM...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
13 Pages

3 September 2025

This study examines research trends and identifies key gaps relevant to the field of structural safety and resilience; additionally, a systematic literature review (SLR) guided by the PRISMA methodology was conducted, analyzing 4188 documents ranging...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
352 Views
26 Pages

Waste-to-Energy in India: A Decompositional Analysis

  • Pravin Kokane,
  • Ganesh Shete,
  • Komal Handore,
  • Rakshit Jakhar and
  • Katarzyna Styszko

29 December 2025

This study presents a comprehensive decomposition analysis of waste-to-energy (WtE) in India through a systematic literature review (SLR) employing the PRISMA guidelines. The findings underscore the immense potential of WtE technologies in addressing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,868 Views
28 Pages

Energy Optimization Techniques in Underwater Internet of Things: Issues, State-of-the-Art, and Future Directions

  • Delphin Raj Kesari Mary,
  • Eunbi Ko,
  • Dong Jin Yoon,
  • Soo-Young Shin and
  • Soo-Hyun Park

14 October 2022

The underwater internet of things (UIoT) has emerged as a booming technology in today’s digital world due to the enhancement of a wide range of underwater applications concerning ocean exploration, deep-sea monitoring, underwater surveillance,...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,464 Views
11 Pages

Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and Network Meta-Analysis (NMA) of First-Line Therapies (1L) for Locally Advanced/Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma (la/mUC)

  • Lisa Bloudek,
  • Phoebe Wright,
  • Caroline McKay,
  • Christina Louise Derleth,
  • Jennifer Susan Lill,
  • Enrique Lenero,
  • Zsolt Hepp,
  • Scott David Ramsey,
  • Sean D. Sullivan and
  • Beth Devine

26 March 2023

To compare efficacy outcomes for all approved and investigational first-line (1L) treatment regimens for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (la/mUC) with standard of care (SOC), a network meta-analysis (NMA) was conducted. A systemat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,147 Views
27 Pages

29 September 2022

Energy systems are transforming due to the incorporation of multiple distributed energy resources, such as renewable energy and battery storage systems. This transformation has triggered a need to shift power distribution from a low efficiency centra...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,079 Views
19 Pages

19 October 2023

Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) is largely a mirage. There are some political decisions translated into penalties and/or incentives to try to adjust the “optimal” level of circularity. The consumer’s desire to purchase circul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,110 Views
27 Pages

Solar Radiation Forecasting: A Systematic Meta-Review of Current Methods and Emerging Trends

  • Ewa Chodakowska,
  • Joanicjusz Nazarko,
  • Łukasz Nazarko and
  • Hesham S. Rabayah

26 June 2024

Effective solar forecasting has become a critical topic in the scholarly literature in recent years due to the rapid growth of photovoltaic energy production worldwide and the inherent variability of this source of energy. The need to optimise energy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,368 Views
44 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review on Machine and Deep Learning Approaches for Detecting Attacks in RPL-Based 6LoWPAN of Internet of Things

  • Taief Alaa Al-Amiedy,
  • Mohammed Anbar,
  • Bahari Belaton,
  • Arkan Hammoodi Hasan Kabla,
  • Iznan H. Hasbullah and
  • Ziyad R. Alashhab

29 April 2022

The IETF Routing Over Low power and Lossy network (ROLL) working group defined IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Network (RPL) to facilitate efficient routing in IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). Limited resou...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
16,896 Views
20 Pages

A Scientometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review for Construction Project Complexity

  • Hassan Ghaleb,
  • Hamed Hamdan Alhajlah,
  • Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah,
  • Mukhtar A. Kassem and
  • Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi

The construction industry has been experiencing a rapid increase in complex projects for the last two decades. Simultaneously, project complexity has received more attention from academics and practitioners worldwide. Many studies suggest that percei...

  • Review
  • Open Access
524 Citations
45,316 Views
36 Pages

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Frameworks in the Industry Revolution 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Mamoona Majid,
  • Shaista Habib,
  • Abdul Rehman Javed,
  • Muhammad Rizwan,
  • Gautam Srivastava,
  • Thippa Reddy Gadekallu and
  • Jerry Chun-Wei Lin

8 March 2022

The 21st century has seen rapid changes in technology, industry, and social patterns. Most industries have moved towards automation, and human intervention has decreased, which has led to a revolution in industries, named the fourth industrial revolu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5,477 Views
50 Pages

Comprehensive Review and Future Research Directions on ICT Standardisation

  • Mohammed Najah Mahdi,
  • Ray Walshe,
  • Sharon Farrell and
  • Harshvardhan J. Pandit

2 November 2024

Standardisation has become imperative to retaining order and development in modern society. The simplest actions, such as train timings and the width of the railroad, would be very difficult to achieve without Standardisation. Standardisation also so...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,496 Views
30 Pages

The Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies in the Tourism Industry and Sustainable Development Goals: A Review of Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • Miguel Ángel Montañés-Del Río,
  • Vanessa Rodríguez-Cornejo,
  • Paula Isabel Rodríguez-Castro and
  • Jesús Herrera-Madueño

1 July 2025

As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry is experiencing a surge in demand. While this growth is essential for economic recovery, it also presents significant challenges in terms of sustainability. The tourism industry i...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,118 Views
24 Pages

The Adoption of UAVs for Enhancing Safety in Construction Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Wanqing Zhong,
  • Sina Rasouli,
  • Atul Kumar Singh,
  • Saeed Reza Mohandes,
  • Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari,
  • Clara Cheung,
  • Patrick Manu and
  • Unnati Agrawal

The nexus between sustainability and safety in construction is crucial for improving a resilient and responsible built environment. By adhering to sustainable principles, construction practices can not only mitigate the environmental impact but also...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,749 Views
27 Pages

29 August 2023

Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, this report conducts a thorough evaluation of the literature on the present progress in research on and the performance of net-zero-carbon cities (NZCCs). The quantitative analysis identifies ten major a...

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