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  • Review
  • Open Access
238 Citations
20,810 Views
45 Pages

A Meta-Review of Indoor Positioning Systems

  • Germán Martín Mendoza-Silva,
  • Joaquín Torres-Sospedra and
  • Joaquín Huerta

17 October 2019

An accurate and reliable Indoor Positioning System (IPS) applicable to most indoor scenarios has been sought for many years. The number of technologies, techniques, and approaches in general used in IPS proposals is remarkable. Such diversity, couple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,863 Views
20 Pages

Metadiscursive Markers and Text Genre: A Metareview

  • Miguel Cuevas-Alonso and
  • Carla Míguez-Álvarez

Given the interest in the study of metadiscourse as the communication of ideas and the way people use language in different communicative situations, this paper attempted to find the degree of confluence between metadiscourse markers from different s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
178 Citations
32,812 Views
31 Pages

Serious Games and Gamification in Healthcare: A Meta-Review

  • Robertas Damaševičius,
  • Rytis Maskeliūnas and
  • Tomas Blažauskas

7 February 2023

A serious game is a type of game that is designed for a primary purpose other than entertainment. Instead, serious games are intended to achieve specific goals, such as education, training, or health promotion. The goal of serious games is to engage...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,310 Views
17 Pages

A Comprehensive Quality Meta-Review of Genetic and Pharmacogenomic Aspects of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of The Jaw (MRONJ)

  • Roberto Sacco,
  • Sergio Olate,
  • Monica Diuana Calasans-Maia,
  • Nicola Sacco,
  • Alessandro Acocella,
  • Carlos Fernando De Almeida Barros Mourão,
  • Vittorio Moraschini,
  • Oladapo Akintola,
  • Raphael Capelli Guerra and
  • Julian Yates

1 December 2022

Background: Antiresorptive and antiangiogenic medications can cause a serious adverse effect known as medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ). In recent years, a new trend of research has emerged emphasizing the potential relation of MRON...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,056 Views
13 Pages

Flash Glucose Monitoring and Patient Satisfaction: A Meta-Review of Systematic Reviews

  • Ana Díez-Fernández,
  • María Dolores Rodríguez-Huerta,
  • Rubén Mirón-González,
  • José Alberto Laredo-Aguilera and
  • Noelia María Martín-Espinosa

Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) systems have been suggested to have clinical beneficial effects in patients with diabetes mellitus, although their improvements in terms of quality of life (QoL) and patients’ satisfaction are not always addressed or ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,853 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...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,847 Views
17 Pages

A Metareview of Research on Educational Inequality and Socioeconomic Disadvantage

  • Jennifer E. Symonds,
  • Yekaterina Chzhen,
  • Neil Kaye,
  • Jay Dominy,
  • Charlotte Campbell,
  • Catherine Sykes,
  • Sude Işıl Baştuğ,
  • Sara Fiasconaro and
  • Ilyar Heydari Barardehi

Socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievement are pervasive across societies. To inform a European Commission-funded project on educational inequalities in children, adolescents, and young adults, we used a scoping review methodology to synth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,662 Views
22 Pages

Where Are Smart Cities Heading? A Meta-Review and Guidelines for Future Research

  • João Reis,
  • Pedro Alexandre Marques and
  • Pedro Carmona Marques

20 August 2022

(1) Background: Smart cities have been gaining attention in the community, both among researchers and professionals. Although this field of study is gaining some maturity, no academic manuscript yet offers a unique holistic view of the phenomenon. In...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
18,341 Views
32 Pages

9 February 2022

Environmental enrichment has been widely studied in rodents, but there is no consensus on what enrichment should look like or what it should achieve. Inconsistent use of the term “enrichment” creates challenges in drawing conclusions abou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,668 Views
20 Pages

Autobiographical Memory: A Scoping Meta-Review of Neuroimaging Data Enlightens the Inconsistencies Between Theory and Experimentation

  • Edoardo Donarelli,
  • Cristina Civilotti,
  • Giulia Di Fini,
  • Gabriella Gandino and
  • Alessia Celeghin

Background/Objectives: Autobiographical memory (AM) is typically viewed in terms of comprising episodic (EAM) and semantic (SAM) components. Despite the emergence of numerous meta-analyses, the literature on these constructs remains fragmented. We ai...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
30,544 Views
31 Pages

XAIR: A Systematic Metareview of Explainable AI (XAI) Aligned to the Software Development Process

  • Tobias Clement,
  • Nils Kemmerzell,
  • Mohamed Abdelaal and
  • Michael Amberg

Currently, explainability represents a major barrier that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is facing in regard to its practical implementation in various application domains. To combat the lack of understanding of AI-based systems, Explainable AI (XAI) a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,818 Views
25 Pages

An Overview on MADS Box Members in Plants: A Meta-Review

  • Prakash Babu Adhikari and
  • Ryushiro Dora Kasahara

Most of the studied MADS box members are linked to flowering and fruit traits. However, higher volumes of studies on type II of the two types so far suggest that the florigenic effect of the gene members could just be the tip of the iceberg. In the c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
227 Citations
46,763 Views
31 Pages

The Role of Communities in Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Review of Components and Competencies

  • Brandon A. Kohrt,
  • Laura Asher,
  • Anvita Bhardwaj,
  • Mina Fazel,
  • Mark J. D. Jordans,
  • Byamah B. Mutamba,
  • Abhijit Nadkarni,
  • Gloria A. Pedersen,
  • Daisy R. Singla and
  • Vikram Patel

Community-based mental health services are emphasized in the World Health Organization’s Mental Health Action Plan, the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities, and the Action Plan of the World Psychiatric Association. There is increasing...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,526 Views
11 Pages

The Importance of Antibiotics in Facial Fracture Treatment—A Systematic Meta-Review

  • Martin Bengtsson,
  • Aron Naimi-Akbar,
  • Joakim Johansson-Berggren,
  • Sebastian Dybeck-Udd,
  • Mikael Magnusson and
  • Bodil Lund

This meta-review evaluated the possibility of more specified recommendations in antibiotic treatment through a narrowed focus on facial trauma. The aim was to analyze the effect of different regimens of antibiotic in treatment of skeletal trauma to t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,795 Views
22 Pages

Towards a Transdisciplinary Theoretical Framework of Citizen Science: Results from a Meta-Review Analysis

  • Andrea Spasiano,
  • Salvatore Grimaldi,
  • Alessio Maria Braccini and
  • Fernando Nardi

15 July 2021

This work intends to lay the foundations for a theoretical framework of citizen science combining social and organizational implications with the support of information technologies. The proposed theoretical framework moves towards a shared and commo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,973 Views
21 Pages

Physical Activity during Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Review

  • Carmen Rute-Larrieta,
  • Gloria Mota-Cátedra,
  • Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres,
  • Victoria Mazoteras-Pardo,
  • Esperanza Barroso-Corroto,
  • Carlos Navarrete-Tejero,
  • Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis,
  • Athina Patelarou,
  • Maria Manuela Martins and
  • Ana da Conceinçao Alves Faria
  • + 1 author

13 June 2024

Background: Nowadays, pregnant women require more individualized attention in their assistance process during pregnancy. One of the aspects that requires the most focus is the suitability of carrying out physical activity. The objective of this meta-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,297 Views
20 Pages

Scoping Meta-Review of Methods Used to Assess Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Devices for Heart Failure

  • Rossella Di Bidino,
  • Davide Piaggio,
  • Martina Andellini,
  • Beatriz Merino-Barbancho,
  • Laura Lopez-Perez,
  • Tianhui Zhu,
  • Zeeshan Raza,
  • Melody Ni,
  • Andra Morrison and
  • Simone Borsci
  • + 3 authors

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are playing increasingly important roles, permeating the field of medical devices (MDs). This rapid progress has not yet been matched by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process, which still...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,296 Views
20 Pages

Peri-Operative Risk Factors Associated with Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD): An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies

  • Nikolaj Travica,
  • Mojtaba Lotfaliany,
  • Andrew Marriott,
  • Seyed A. Safavynia,
  • Melissa M. Lane,
  • Laura Gray,
  • Nicola Veronese,
  • Michael Berk,
  • David Skvarc and
  • Hajara Aslam
  • + 4 authors

17 February 2023

This umbrella review aimed to systematically identify the peri-operative risk factors associated with post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) using meta-analyses of observational studies. To date, no review has synthesised nor assessed the streng...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,217 Views
14 Pages

8 July 2023

For years, the connection between safety behaviours and injury and illness in high-risk industries has been recognised, but the effectiveness of this link has been somewhat overlooked. Since there is still a significant amount of injury within high-r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
19,016 Views
61 Pages

8 October 2017

The research evidence for early childhood intervention practices performance checklists is described. Performance checklists include lists of the tasks or steps required to complete a practice competently. The checklists were developed using a concep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,120 Views
19 Pages

A Meta-Review of Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis Software

  • Jessica Gillespie,
  • Maciej Pietrzak,
  • Min-Ae Song and
  • Dongjun Chung

10 July 2025

Spatial transcriptomics combines gene expression data with spatial coordinates to allow for the discovery of detailed RNA localization, study development, investigating the tumor microenvironment, and creating a tissue atlas. A large range of spatial...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
16,857 Views
60 Pages

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the concept of using manufacturing resources in a service-oriented way over the Internet. Recent developments in Additive Manufacturing (AM) are making it possible to utilise resources ad-hoc as replacements for traditiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,270 Views
12 Pages

24 November 2019

The purpose of the study is to identify a sustainability development measure. The United Nations announced 17 development objectives in Agenda 2030. This research attempts to identify a measurement which captures all of the UN objectives. It uses the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,752 Views
32 Pages

Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Geoinformation

  • Gloria Bordogna,
  • Cristiano Fugazza,
  • Paolo Tagliolato Acquaviva d’Aragona and
  • Paola Carrara

Distinct, alternative forms of geosemantics, whose classification is often ill-defined, emerge in the management of geospatial information. This paper proposes a workflow to identify patterns in the different practices and methods dealing with geoinf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,798 Views
60 Pages

10 June 2023

The ideology behind process modelling is to visualise lengthy event logs into simple representations interpretable to the end user. Classifying process models as simple or complex is based on criteria that evaluate attributes of models and quantify t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
35,141 Views
16 Pages

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Anxiety Disorders. A Systematic Meta-Review

  • Ascensión Fumero,
  • Wenceslao Peñate,
  • Cristián Oyanadel and
  • Bárbara Porter

Objective: There has been a growing interest in the study of the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). Many clinical trials and experimental designs have been implemented, with different samples and diverse MBI procedures. Reviews...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,531 Views
16 Pages

Smartphone as a Sensor in mHealth: Narrative Overview, SWOT Analysis, and Proposal of Mobile Biomarkers

  • Alessio Antonini,
  • Serhan Coşar,
  • Iman Naja,
  • Muhammad Salman Haleem,
  • Jamie Hugo Macdonald,
  • Paquale Innominato and
  • Giacinto Barresi

11 June 2025

Digital applications for supporting health management often fail to achieve large-scale adoption. Costs related to purchasing, maintaining, and using medical or sensor devices, such as smartwatches, currently hinder uptake and sustained engagement, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,931 Views
27 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Nanophotonic Neural Networks: Architectures, Training Methods, Optimization, and Activations Functions

  • Konstantinos Demertzis,
  • Georgios D. Papadopoulos,
  • Lazaros Iliadis and
  • Lykourgos Magafas

18 January 2022

In the last years, materializations of neuromorphic circuits based on nanophotonic arrangements have been proposed, which contain complete optical circuits, laser, photodetectors, photonic crystals, optical fibers, flat waveguides and other passive o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,223 Views
21 Pages

This paper presents a comprehensive systematic review of personalized learning software systems. All the systems under review are designed to aid educational stakeholders by personalizing one or more facets of the learning process. This is achieved b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,836 Views
22 Pages

New models and technological advances are driving the digital transformation of healthcare systems. Ontologies and Semantic Web have been recognized among the most valuable solutions to manage the massive, various, and complex healthcare data derivin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,806 Views
27 Pages

Exploring the Emerging Domain of Research on Video Game Live Streaming in Web of Science: State of the Art, Changes and Trends

  • Luis Javier Cabeza-Ramírez,
  • Fernando J. Fuentes-García and
  • Guzmán A. Muñoz-Fernandez

In recent years, interest in video game live streaming services has increased as a new communication instrument, social network, source of leisure, and entertainment platform for millions of users. The rise in this type of service has been accompanie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,891 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2023

Soil-water practice is essential for farm sustainability, thereby establishing the reference level for agricultural policy of the European Union (EU). This paper focuses on the critical gap in the knowledge surrounding comparison of soil-water effect...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,542 Views
17 Pages

27 July 2023

Addressing a significant gap in the literature, this study commences with a dual focus: assessing sustainability evaluations, both within the airport sector and across a broader range of industries. Through a comprehensive review of 33 academic artic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,357 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of market connectedness and asymmetric volatility spillover has recently seen a surge in financial risk analytics and portfolio diversification. We carried out a meta-literature review on connectedness and spillovers, providing solid insig...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,115 Views
32 Pages

Application of CAD Systems in Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Machine Learning Techniques: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

  • Theofilos Andreadis,
  • Antonios Gasteratos,
  • Ioannis Seimenis and
  • Dimitrios Koulouriotis

Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of mortality among women worldwide. However, early detection and diagnosis significantly improve treatment outcomes. In recent years, Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems, which leverage Artificial Intellig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,216 Views
38 Pages

Leveraging Big Data and AI for Sustainable Urban Mobility Solutions

  • Oluwaleke Yusuf,
  • Adil Rasheed and
  • Frank Lindseth

Urban population growth is intensifying pressure on mobility systems, with road transportation contributing to environmental and sustainability challenges. Policymakers must navigate complex uncertainties in addressing rising mobility demand while pu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,841 Views
17 Pages

Artificial Taste: Advances and Innovative Applications in Healthcare

  • Letao Wang,
  • Yuzhang Li,
  • Yao Zhang and
  • Bin Zheng

8 January 2025

Background: Scientists have recently developed a technology that induces artificial taste through electronic stimulation. However, scattered reports have made it difficult to comprehensively understand the technology’s details and appreciate it...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,661 Views
23 Pages

Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Long COVID: A Mixed Method Systematic Review

  • Nawar Diar Bakerly,
  • Nikki Smith,
  • Julie L. Darbyshire,
  • Joseph Kwon,
  • Emily Bullock,
  • Sareeta Baley,
  • Manoj Sivan and
  • Brendan Delaney

Introduction: Long COVID (LC) is a global public health crisis affecting more than 70 million people. There is emerging evidence of different pathophysiological mechanisms driving the wide array of symptoms in LC. Understanding the relationships betw...

  • Review
  • Open Access
450 Views
32 Pages

A Comparison of Methods for Testing and Implementing Community Health Interventions in Childhood: A Realist Review

  • Lubna Anis,
  • Karen M. Benzies,
  • Carol Ewashen,
  • Martha Hart and
  • Nicole Letourneau

25 November 2025

Background: Innovative methods to test healthcare interventions have recently emerged to help provide more targeted, effective, and scalable interventions. Given the importance of the early years for children’s development, improved interventio...