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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,489 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2024

All journalists have bodies. This commonsensical fact acquires more currency every day as the work of reporters and editors becomes automated, robotized, and taken over by (generative) artificial intelligence. The embodied nature of news work matters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,184 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2022

Hertzian formulas are commonly used for the evaluation of deformation and pressure distribution of non-conformal and slightly conformal mechanical pairs to estimate component stiffness and durability. For the sake of simplicity, their use is extended...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,886 Views
14 Pages

16 June 2020

This article explores the intersectionalities of masculinity, corporal identity, fatherhood, relationships, and bodily experiences in relation to a person who is living in a period of home confinement. In so doing, I draw on autobiographical narrativ...

  • Introduction
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,495 Views
5 Pages

23 July 2013

In 2010 Jacqueline Low was invited to become an editorial board member of the then new online open-access journal Societies. In that same year, Claudia Malacrida was approached to organize a session on the sociology of the body at the 2012 Internatio...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,860 Views
14 Pages

Body Composition in Children: What Does It Tell Us So Far?

  • Odysseas Androutsos and
  • Antonis Zampelas

10 August 2022

The Special Issue “Body Composition in Children” of the journal “CHILDREN” aimed to publish both original and review articles focusing on the prevalence and determinants of obesity across childhood, the role of body compositio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,650 Views
17 Pages

Application of Mathematical Methods to the Study of Special-Needs Education in Spanish Journals

  • José Luis Gallego Ortega,
  • Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes and
  • Antonio García Guzmán

22 March 2021

This research analyzes the written production on special-needs education in Spanish high-impact journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science). Its objective is to show the status of this issue in the past 20 years based on updated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,577 Views
10 Pages

10 July 2019

The Arts shows great promise in working toward a sustainable future as they can have a significant influence on the development of cultural norms. Using bibliometrics, this study uncovers the current body of scholarly literature related to the inters...

  • Comment
  • Open Access
4,169 Views
2 Pages

Comments to Article by Solah VA et al., Nutrients 2017, 9, 149

  • Vladimir Vuksan,
  • Elena Jovanovski,
  • Andreea Zurbau and
  • Allison Komishon

18 April 2017

Dear Editor, We read with interest the article published in the 16 February 2017 issue of The Journal, titled “Effect of Fibre Supplementation on Body Weight and Composition, Frequency of Eating and Dietary Choice in Overweight Individuals” by Solah...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5,710 Views
60 Pages

Automation in Construction (2000–2023): Science Mapping and Visualization of Journal Publications

  • Mohamed Marzouk,
  • Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud,
  • Khalid S. Al-Gahtani and
  • Kareem Adel

7 August 2025

This paper presents a scientometric review that provides a quantitative perspective on the evolution of Automation in Construction Journal (AICJ) research, emphasizing its developmental paths and emerging trends. The study aims to analyze the journal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
852 Views
19 Pages

Since its emergence two decades ago, podcasting has spurred a rapidly evolving body of scholarship examining its social, technological, political, and cultural impact. However, much of podcast theory relies on analytical frameworks derived from other...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,818 Views
2 Pages

22 February 2013

Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787) — A journal of pharmacy education and practice is an international scientific open access journal on pharmacy education and practice, and is published by MDPI online quarterly. The practice of pharmacy is changing at an un...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,019 Views
11 Pages

13 November 2024

Sepsis is a severe and potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when the body’s response to an infection damages its own tissues and organs. It can lead to organ failure and death if not treated. Cytosorb is a promising medical device...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,277 Views
10 Pages

Prioritisation of Charismatic Animals in Major Conservation Journals Measured by the Altmetric Attention Score

  • Pavol Prokop,
  • Rudolf Masarovič,
  • Sandra Hajdúchová,
  • Zuzana Ježová,
  • Martina Zvaríková and
  • Peter Fedor

19 December 2022

Large, charismatic animals trigger human emotional responses, which consequently result in taxonomic biases that have been proven in various fields. In our research, we analysed the representation of animals and plants in scientific papers published...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,210 Views
17 Pages

A Scientometric Analysis of Construction Bidding Research Activities

  • Amirreza Rashidi,
  • Jolanta Tamošaitienė,
  • Mehdi Ravanshadnia and
  • Hadi Sarvari

12 January 2023

Bidding is the process in which a contractor submits a tender to the owner of a construction project to undertake its execution. This enables companies to properly employ required contractors. This paper investigates the trends of research conducted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
16,388 Views
18 Pages

A Systematic Review of Research on Sustainability in Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Thais González-Torres,
  • José-Luis Rodríguez-Sánchez,
  • Eva Pelechano-Barahona and
  • Fernando E. García-Muiña

9 January 2020

The field of mergers and acquisitions and sustainability has been expanding in the last years; consequently, there is a need for a systematic review of the existing body of knowledge. This article aims to fill this gap by providing an overview and sy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,401 Views
28 Pages

2 February 2024

Seawater intrusion represents the flow of seawater through coastal aquifers, but it also affects surface water bodies such as channels, canals, and wetlands. Transitional water volumes, variable density and salinity distributions, and heterogeneous h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,897 Views
14 Pages

Environmental issues in the coverage of the elections are usually framed in relation to voters’ attitudes towards the specific problems, for instance, water quality or land use. The environment is not given standing in these discussions, rather, it i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,223 Views
21 Pages

Characterizing the Sharing Economy State of the Research: A Systematic Map

  • Rafael Laurenti,
  • Jagdeep Singh,
  • Joao Miguel Cotrim,
  • Martina Toni and
  • Rajib Sinha

16 October 2019

The sharing economy is an emerging niche for innovation capable of disrupting established socio-technical and economic regimes. Because of this potential to cause radical changes in a wide array of domains, research in multiple disciplines addressing...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,960 Views
22 Pages

Emerging Roles of 3D Body Scanning in Human-Centric Applications

  • Mahendran Balasubramanian and
  • Pariya Sheykhmaleki

The three-dimensional (3D) body scanning technology has impacted various fields, from digital anthropometry to healthcare. This paper provides an exhaustive review of the existing literature on applications of 3D body scanning technology in human-cen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
25,486 Views
26 Pages

Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

  • Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain,
  • Vidanelage L. Dayarathna,
  • Morteza Nagahi and
  • Raed Jaradat

Systems thinking (ST) is an interdisciplinary domain that offers different ways to better understand the behavior and structure of a complex system. Over the past decades, several publications can be identified in academic literature, focusing on dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,024 Views
13 Pages

11 October 2019

In order to adhere to dietary guidelines and manage health risks, consumers need to be able to estimate with some accuracy the sugar and energy content of foods. The present study compared how well participants could estimate the sugar and energy con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
13,711 Views
14 Pages

The dominant discourse of gender focuses on the binary of woman/man, despite the known additional risks for diverse sexualities and gender minorities in disasters. Given the small but growing body of literature concerning gender minorities in disaste...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
26,116 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2024

Vitamin D is a conditionally essential fat-soluble vitamin found in foods such as fish; fish oil; egg yolks; animal fats; some mushroom varieties; and fortified foods such as cheese, margarine, milk, infant formula, and some ready-to-eat cereals. Cal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,004 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2021

This review of research used meta-synthesis to integrate findings from seven bibliometric reviews of research on managing for sustainability in different management disciplines: leadership, human resource management, entrepreneurship management, inno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,453 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2024

The development of satellite altimetry has significantly advanced the application of satellite Earth observation technologies in surface water monitoring, resulting in a substantial body of research. Although numerous reviews have summarized progress...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,263 Views
14 Pages

In the past three decades, a body of research on issues related to multilingual scholars writing for publication has emerged, paralleling the rise of pressures on scholars around the world to publish their work in high-status journals, especially tho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
628 Views
14 Pages

Although our society is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, clinical practice has not yet harnessed digital technology to address the widest audience possible to prevent and treat a range of mental health concerns. The present study aimed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,942 Views
23 Pages

13 December 2023

Sustainable craft is a relatively new concept, and a growing body of literature has examined sustainable craft from a multidisciplinary perspective. However, these researchers found a dearth of research that examines service design as a prospective t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,242 Views
18 Pages

Through framing analysis, this research spans a decade (2013–2022) of news on animal agriculture, focusing on the industry’s constituent bodies, farmed animals, to uncover how journalism operates with speciesism as a societal driving forc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,924 Views
22 Pages

A Bibliometric Review of the Knowledge Base for Innovation in Sustainable Development

  • Ronald Vatananan-Thesenvitz,
  • Amaury-Alexandre Schaller and
  • Randall Shannon

18 October 2019

This review explores the rising research field of sustainable development in combination with innovation. The basis to reach sustainable development is innovation, which plays a role on all dimensions, be it economically, socially, or environmentally...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,127 Views
23 Pages

Mapping the Knowledge of Research Trends in Sports Performance Asymmetries from 2015 to 2024: A Bibliometric Study and Analysis of the Most-Cited Papers

  • Boryi A. Becerra-Patiño,
  • Juan David Paucar-Uribe,
  • Jorge Olivares-Arancibia,
  • Alex Ojeda-Aravena,
  • Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda,
  • José M. Gamonales,
  • José Francisco López-Gil and
  • Víctor Hernández-Beltrán

24 March 2025

In recent years, studies related to preventing injuries and improving sports performance have aroused academic interest. However, no bibliometric study has investigated asymmetry. The aim of this study was twofold: (i) to identify trends in research...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,198 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Industry-Specific Research Themes on E-Waste: A Literature Review

  • Hilal Shams,
  • Altaf Hossain Molla,
  • Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman,
  • Hawa Hishamuddin,
  • Zambri Harun and
  • Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar

10 August 2023

The usance of electric and electronic products has become commonplace across the globe. The growing number of customers and the demand for these products are resulting in the manufacturing of new electrical and electronic products into the market, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,664 Views
21 Pages

Research on Hotspots and Evolutionary Trends in Coal Mine Gas Prevention

  • Chunguang Zhao,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Jinlin Ruan,
  • Yang Pu,
  • Yuan Sun,
  • Xiaoyang Cheng and
  • Yu Sun

15 September 2024

Mine gas accidents have received widespread attention at home and abroad, because mine gas accidents often cause casualties and property losses once they occur. This study was conducted in order to have a more comprehensive understanding of the resea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,727 Views
24 Pages

New Insights about How to Make an Intervention in Children and Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome: Diet, Exercise vs. Changes in Body Composition. A Systematic Review of RCT

  • Enrique Albert Pérez,
  • Victoria Mateu Olivares,
  • Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa,
  • Mariola D Molina Vila and
  • Manuel Reig García-Galbis

6 July 2018

Objective: To record which interventions produce the greatest variations in body composition in patients ≤19 years old with metabolic syndrome (MS). Method: search dates between 2005 and 2017 in peer reviewed journals, following the PRISMA method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,933 Views
20 Pages

5 January 2023

Due to potential pressure from industrial and municipal activities, urban water bodies are at risk of not achieving the environmental objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by 2027. This study comprised the quality assessment of water body...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
13,760 Views
39 Pages

20 September 2023

This review article presents an in-depth examination of research and development in the fields of rehabilitation, assistive technologies, and humanoid robots. It focuses on parallel robots designed for human body joints with three degrees of freedom,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,987 Views
17 Pages

Past, Present, and Future of Groundwater Remediation Research: A Scientometric Analysis

  • Qibin Chen,
  • Guilian Fan,
  • Wei Na,
  • Jiming Liu,
  • Jianguo Cui and
  • Hongyan Li

In this study, we characterize the body of knowledge of groundwater remediation from 1950 to 2018 by employing scientometric techniques and CiteSpace software, based on the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) databases. The results indicate that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
509 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2025

Background: Optimal nutritional care is essential to improving outcomes in hemodialysis, yet translation of evidence into routine practice remains uneven across settings. To inform health system planning and implementation priorities, we mapped globa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,065 Views
7 Pages

26 September 2019

Changes in technology, audience engagement, the business model and ethical requirements have greatly expanded the skills required to be a professional journalist in the UK. At the same time, the esteem in which the profession is held by the public ha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,295 Views
24 Pages

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Ecological Restoration of Tropical Forests: A Bibliometric Review

  • Yajaira Arévalo,
  • María Eugenia Avila-Salem,
  • Paúl Loján,
  • Narcisa Urgiles-Gómez,
  • Darwin Pucha-Cofrep,
  • Nikolay Aguirre and
  • César Benavidez-Silva

2 August 2025

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a vital role in the restoration of tropical forests by enhancing soil fertility, facilitating plant establishment, and improving ecosystem resilience. This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,289 Views
16 Pages

Body image concerns are key prognostic and pathogenic factors of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). This study aimed to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying body image perception across its two domains of estimation and satisfact...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,765 Views
20 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review of Quantitative Studies Assessing the Relationship between Water and Conflict on the African Continent

  • Elizabeth A. Mack,
  • Richard A. Marcantonio,
  • Erin Bunting,
  • Amanda Ross,
  • Andrew Zimmer,
  • Leo C. Zulu,
  • Edna Liliana Gómez Fernández,
  • Jay Herndon and
  • Geoffrey M. Henebry

11 November 2022

Since the seminal 2012 Special Issue of the Journal of Peace Research about climate change and conflict, at least 35 review papers on the topic have been published. To our knowledge, none of these reviews focused on water and conflict specifically. I...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,870 Views
19 Pages

Addressing Body Image Disturbance through Metaverse-Related Technologies: A Systematic Review

  • Moises Perez,
  • Adriana Pineda-Rafols,
  • Maria Pilar Egea-Romero,
  • Maria Gonzalez-Moreno and
  • Esther Rincon

9 November 2023

There is an increasing awareness about body image disturbance and eating disorders which calls for a multidisciplinary approach. The usefulness of new technologies for improving body image distortion has been addressed in the scientific literature, b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,347 Views
38 Pages

Endurance in Long-Distance Swimming and the Use of Nutritional Aids

  • Álvaro Miguel-Ortega,
  • Julio Calleja-González and
  • Juan Mielgo-Ayuso

19 November 2024

Background: Long-distance swimmers exert energetic, physiological, and neuromuscular demands that must be matched with adequate body composition to improve their performance in long-distance swimming. Objectives: This review aims to compile all avail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,271 Views
14 Pages

Muslim women’s perceptions of cultural, religious, and secular determinants of physical activity have been studied for many years, with information typically acquired through focus groups or interviews. Multiple reviews synthesizing the researc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,146 Views
18 Pages

Trends and New Developments in Artemia Research

  • Mohamad Nor Azra,
  • Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor,
  • Juris Burlakovs,
  • Muhammad Fuad Abdullah,
  • Zulkiflee Abd Latif and
  • Yeong Yik Sung

7 September 2022

An increasing number of scientists since 1970 has examined Artemia as an important species in aquaculture-related fields. However, a global scientometric review of Artemia literature is still lacking, which is the objective of this research. Using a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,822 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2023

Alternate-day fasting (ADF) is becoming more popular since it may be a promising diet intervention for human health. Our study aimed to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to investigate current publication trends and hotspots in the field...

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