Nickel (Ni) resources are critical for the development of modern industry. This study investigates the knowledge structure and frontier evolution of Ni deposit research by constructing a domain-specific knowledge graph using bibliometric analysis and...
Agricultural census data and fieldwork observations are used to analyze changes in land cover/use intensity across Rondônia and Mato Grosso states along the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. Results show that the development of land use...
Nuclear power technology plays a vital role in the global low-carbon energy transition. Horizon scanning and research frontier detection of nuclear power technology help accurately grasp the development trend, thereby optimizing its strategic layout....
In the context of global climate change and the green transformation of the tourism industry, low-carbon tourism has emerged as an important topic within the field of sustainable development research. Consequently, there is a pressing need to systema...
A significant transformation in the Chinese pictorial tradition took place during the Han Dynasty. Stone reliefs, considered here as a representative art form, recorded the evolution of social thought, funeral concepts, and religious beliefs. Images...
Optimal power flow is one of the fundamental optimal operation problems for power systems. With the increasing scale of solar energy integrated into power systems, the uncertainty of solar power brings intractable challenges to the power system opera...
The role that reticulate evolution (i.e., via lateral transfer, viral recombination and/or introgressive hybridization) has played in the origin and adaptation of individual taxa and even entire clades continues to be tested for all domains of life....
The purpose of this paper is to help better understand the problem of energy poverty; to grasp the research context, evolution trends and research hotspots of energy poverty; and to find clues from research on energy poverty. In this paper, we use th...
Big data analysis can reveal the relevance, hidden patterns, and bursts of activity in data. Therefore, big data analysis has recently aroused great interest and curiosity among scientists in various fields. The powerful data organization and visuali...
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have undergone a remarkable transformation over the past two decades, evolving from a laboratory curiosity into one of the most actively investigated solvent platforms in green chemistry. Yet, despite this rapid expansio...
Mine fire accidents frequently constitute a major threat to mining safety, and their potential consequences are extremely severe, which highlights the urgency of fire prevention and control research. In this study, the CiteSpace software was used to...
Scholars have sought to integrate sustainable principles, attitudes, and methodologies into urban development, drawing insights from the natural and social sciences as well as historical contexts. However, current sustainable urban planning (SUP) res...
The aim of the present study is to explore the evolving trend of research directions in the field of early education. In this research, CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used to visually analyze documents published in eight SSCI journals between 2001 and...
Saxitoxin (STX) is one of the most potent marine neurotoxins, produced by several species of freshwater cyanobacteria and marine dinoflagellates. Although omics-based approaches have advanced our understanding of STX biosynthesis in recent decades, t...
Carbon-neutral city research has attracted widespread attention. However, a comprehensive review of this research has not been conducted, and it is unclear how the various perspectives have evolved. In this study, CNKI and Web of Science were used as...
The escalating complexity, density, and agility of the modern electromagnetic environment (CME) pose unprecedented challenges to radar signal deinterleaving, a cornerstone of electronic intelligence. While traditional methods face significant perform...
As the global ecological environment faces serious challenges and extreme climate change threatens the survival of humankind, the promotion of green development has become the focus for all countries in the world. As one of the world’s major gr...
Green taxation has evolved from a fiscal instrument for correcting environmental externalities into a strategic policy mechanism for promoting sustainable development and supporting the transition toward low-carbon economies. As research on this topi...
Low-molecular-mass organic chemicals are widely discussed as potential indicators of life in extraterrestrial habitats. However, demarcation lines between biotic chemicals and abiotic chemicals have been difficult to define. Here, we have analyzed th...
Point cloud intelligence integrates advanced technologies such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), photogrammetry, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform transportation infrastructure management. This review highlights state-of-the-art adv...
We introduce and discuss a dynamics of interaction of risky assets in a portfolio by resorting to methods of statistical mechanics developed to model the evolution of systems whose microscopic state may be augmented by variables which are not mechani...
Driven by agricultural labor shortages and rising quality requirements, ginger harvesting increasingly demands high-throughput, low-damage operations and a reliable supply chain. This review summarizes harvesting modes and harvester types used in gin...
Silicon radiation detectors, a special type of microelectronic sensor which plays a crucial role in many applications, are reviewed in this paper, focusing on fabrication aspects. After addressing the basic concepts and the main requirements, the evo...
Despite remaining the most important type of animal production, pig production in Poland and Hungary declined after their accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004. This paper investigated the evolution of the technical efficiency of the pork indu...
Paleoparasitology is a discipline of bioarchaeology that studies human and animal parasites and their evolution through time. It is at the frontier between biological sciences and the humanities, and aims to provide valuable clues about the lifestyle...
Digital economy is a vital driving force for countries to promote economic recovery, rebuild competitive advantages and enhance governance capacity. Extensive research has been conducted in this field. In this paper, the text analysis tool of Bicomb2...
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the DSSAT crop modeling field from 1990 to 2024, identifying its evolutionary trajectory and emerging frontiers. A comprehensive bibliometric analysis and network visualization were conduct...
Background/Objectives: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a cornerstone of secondary prevention, traditionally delivered through supervised center-based models. However, significant logistical barriers and high healthcare costs necessitate a paradigm shi...
25 July 2022
This paper aims to summarize the publishing trends, current status, research topics, and frontier evolution trends of health technology between 1990 and 2020 through various bibliometric analysis methods. In total, 6663 articles retrieved from the We...
Sustainable economic growth is closely linked to a national system of innovation’s (NSI) adaptability. The NSI of a country in catch-up mode is different than one at the technology frontier. In this exploratory paper we use a socio-cognitive approach...
Sustainable agriculture and good governance are part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have attracted great attention from all nations around the world. A scientific metrological and knowledge map analysis was conducted on the spa...
Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important...
As a core sector of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and dual-circulation pattern, Xinjiang’s cultural tourism industry—its ninth-largest industrial cluster—plays a key role in enhancing industrial competitiveness and regional coo...
Identifying frontier interdisciplinary domains is essential for tracking scientific evolution and informing strategic research planning. This study proposes a comprehensive framework that integrates (1) semantic disciplinary classification using a la...
7 May 2022
Green development is an effective way to reconcile the main contradictions between resources, environment, and regional development. Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an important index to measure green development; an undesirable output-orie...
Natural gas hydrate is a clean energy resource critical for global energy security and low-carbon transition. Understanding its geological accumulation mechanisms is essential for exploration and development. However, the current research on NGH geol...
The preparation of micro/nano periodic surface structures using femtosecond laser machining technology has been the academic frontier and hotspot in recent years. The formation and evolution of micro/nano periodic ripples were investigated on 2205 st...
Adaptive learning is an approach toward personalized learning and places the concept of “learner-centered education” into practice. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and other technologies in recent years, there have b...
Today, many complex multiobjective problems are dealt with using genetic algorithms (GAs). They apply the evolution mechanism of a natural population to a “numerical” population of solutions to optimize a fitness function. GA implementati...
(1) Background: The increasing complexity of marine organism habitats and the impact of climate change on the marine environment have garnered global attention towards the adaptive evolution of marine organisms. However, there still remains a lack of...
To systematically understand the evolution of health tourism in China, the present study visually analyzes the theme evolution and frontiers of Chinese health tourism research on the basis of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databas...
The virulence gene ToxA has been proposed to be horizontally transferred between three fungal wheat pathogens (Parastagonospora nodorum, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, and Bipolaris sorokiniana) as part of a conserved ~14 kb ToxhAT transposon. Here, o...
Adaptation economics is critical for guiding decision-makers in reducing climate vulnerability, evaluating the most suitable action while allocating scarce financial, human, and technological resources. However, this economic evaluation faces signifi...
“Atmospheric” painting stands as a new frontier in contemporary art, presenting challenges and new considerations in museum practices. This article aims to analyze the possible evolution of four atmospheric paintings created by artist Luc...
In the last decade, genome editing technologies became very effective and several clinical trials have been started in order to use them for treating some genetic diseases. Interestingly, despite more than 50 years of discussion about the frontiers o...
Low dimensional transition metal carbide and nitride (MXenes) have been emerging as frontier materials for energy storage and conversion. Ti3C2Tx was the first MXenes that discovered and soon become the most widely investigated among the MXenes famil...
The structure solution from powder diffraction has undergone an intense evolution during the last 20 years, but is far from being routine. Current challenges of powder crystallography include ab initio crystal structure determination on real samples...
28 April 2022
As a major carbon-emitting country, there is an urgent need for China to reduce carbon emissions. Studying the carbon emission efficiency of each province helps us to learn about the characteristics and evolution of regional carbon emissions, which i...
Industrial symbiosis (IS) allows the use of the resources of a productive chain, based on collaboration between companies, finding ways to use the waste of one as inputs or raw materials for the other entity. IS seeks to generate environmental sustai...
Based on the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database, this article compares the research results in this subject area since 2000 with the literature data on the theme of sustainable architectural design and conducts an in-depth investigation in...
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