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  • Review
  • Open Access
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12 August 2025

Psychology as an empirical science has targeted human cognition for more than a century. Typically, the focus of these investigations was on isolated mental processes, which were studied in individual participants in confined laboratory settings. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,014 Views
16 Pages

An Investigation on the Use by Academic Researchers of Knowledge from Scientific Social Networking Sites

  • Vincenzo Corvello,
  • Maria Cristina Chimenti,
  • Carlo Giglio and
  • Saverino Verteramo

22 November 2020

Scientific social networking sites like ResearchGate or Academia.edu have become part of the work practice of academic researchers. These digital platforms have been designed precisely to encourage the exchange of knowledge between scholars and to he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,283 Views
21 Pages

An Early Investigation of the HHL Quantum Linear Solver for Scientific Applications

  • Muqing Zheng,
  • Chenxu Liu,
  • Samuel Stein,
  • Xiangyu Li,
  • Johannes Mülmenstädt,
  • Yousu Chen and
  • Ang Li

6 August 2025

In this paper, we explore using the Harrow–Hassidim–Lloyd (HHL) algorithm to address scientific and engineering problems through quantum computing, utilizing the NWQSim simulation package on a high-performance computing platform. Focusing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,723 Views
32 Pages

A Scientific Investigation of the Shangfang Mountain Yunshui Cave in Beijing Based on LiDAR Technology

  • Xinyue Liu,
  • Yanhui Shan,
  • Gang Ai,
  • Zhengfeng Du,
  • Anran Shen and
  • Ningfei Lei

20 June 2024

The Yunshui Cave in Shangfang Mountain, Beijing, is a famous high-altitude karst cave in northern China. As the third scientific survey of Yunshui Cave in history, this is the first time to use the latest LiDAR technology to carry out a related detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,399 Views
24 Pages

17 January 2019

Salt-induced deterioration of architectural heritage is accelerated drastically in marine environments. This paper investigates the deterioration mechanism of the Shore Temple using various analytical techniques. Deteriorated and pristine stone sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,834 Views
13 Pages

11 September 2023

This article aims to present the results of the investigations performed on a 19th-century oil painting on canvas belonging to the Conservation and Restoration Department of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The artwork depict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,816 Views
14 Pages

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that aimed to explore the ideas of 22 preservice physics teachers regarding astronomy concepts both within and beyond the solar system, as well as their understanding of the Nature of Science i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,421 Views
27 Pages

Unleashing the Potential of Medicinal Plants in Benin: Assessing the Status of Research and the Need for Enhanced Practices

  • Eric Agbodjento,
  • Boris Lègba,
  • Victorien Tamègnon Dougnon,
  • Jean Robert Klotoé,
  • Esther Déguénon,
  • Phénix Assogba,
  • Hornel Koudokpon,
  • Leena Hanski,
  • Lamine Baba-Moussa and
  • Eléonore Yayi Ladékan

30 March 2023

Medicinal plants play a crucial role in the primary health care of the population in developing countries such as Benin. The national universities of Benin conduct research on the pharmacological, toxicological, and phytochemical properties of these...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,173 Views
15 Pages

Science is an international effort, receiving contributions from researchers across the globe. The capacity of a country or a region to generate and publish quality research varies greatly according to the location examined. Among the factors that di...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
2,110 Views
3 Pages

19 January 2024

The BraYn association aims to bolster young neuroscientists’ research endeavors through collaborative support, fundraising assistance, and events promoting knowledge exchange and collaboration across Europe. Central to its mission is the annual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,593 Views
15 Pages

A Journey Through Philosophy and Medicine: From Aristotle to Evidence-Based Decisions

  • José Nunes de Alencar,
  • Marcio Henrique de Jesus Oliveira,
  • Maria Catarina Nunes Sampaio,
  • Maria Francisca Rego and
  • Rui Nunes

The evolution of medical reasoning is deeply intertwined with philosophical thought, beginning with Aristotle’s foundational work in deductive logic. Aristotle’s principles significantly influenced early medical practice, shaping the work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,353 Views
26 Pages

2 September 2018

Civic scientific literacy (CSL) is an important factor for the development of any country, and this is especially true for a country which is under development and at the same time pursues sustainability. In this article, we conduct the firstly syste...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,078 Views
19 Pages

Transnational research networks (TRN) are becoming increasingly complex. Such complexity may have both positive and negative effects on the quality of research. Our work studies the evolution over time of Chinese TRN and the role of complexity on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,584 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of a Perspective Urban Tree Species, Ginkgo biloba L., by Scientific Analysis of Historical Old Specimens

  • Szilvia Kisvarga,
  • Dóra Hamar-Farkas,
  • Katalin Horotán,
  • Csaba Gyuricza,
  • Katarína Ražná,
  • Matúš Kučka,
  • Ľubomír Harenčár,
  • András Neményi,
  • Csaba Lantos and
  • László Orlóci
  • + 7 authors

26 May 2024

In this study, we examined over 200-year-old Ginkgo biloba L. specimens under different environmental conditions. The overall aim was to explore which factors influence their vitality and general fitness in urban environments and thus their ability t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,480 Views
20 Pages

30 August 2024

The cause of the systematic daily march of barometric pressure in the tropics, notably the late morning and late evening peaks seen almost every day at all locations, was a puzzle that persisted through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,708 Views
26 Pages

15 September 2025

This study aims to explore sixth-grade students’ experiences in context-based STEM activities centered around renewable energy, with a particular focus on their scientific creativity and interest in STEM careers. Adopting a qualitative research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,986 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2023

The conservation of contemporary art often offers unique occasions to study complex multi-material artworks and understand their creative process and esteem degradation distress. The recent diagnostic campaign on the surrealist artwork Perché...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,665 Views
15 Pages

Investigating the Degradation of Mycenaean Glass Artifacts Using Scientific Methods

  • Maria Kaparou,
  • Artemios Oikonomou and
  • Andreas Germanos Karydas

20 March 2024

Mycenaean vitreous artifacts, such as beads and relief plaques, are highly susceptible to degradation, which can significantly alter their visual characteristics and pose challenges to their taxonomy. The visual manifestation of corrosion on vitreous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,509 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2019

In addition to non-hydraulic lime, natural hydraulic lime (NHL) is a material widely used to repair and restore historic buildings. In Korea, although lime mortars have been used as important building materials for thousands of years, the sharing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
673 Views
18 Pages

The NIH Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI): National and Public Health Impact as Measured by Collaborative Scientific Excellence, Investigator Development, and Community Engagement

  • Elizabeth O. Ofili,
  • Mohamad Malouhi,
  • Daniel F. Sarpong,
  • Paul B. Tchounwou,
  • Emma Fernandez-Repollet,
  • Sandra P. Chang,
  • Tandeca King Gordon,
  • Mohamed Mubasher,
  • Alexander Quarshie and
  • The RCMI Consortium
  • + 12 authors

Background: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program in response to the Congressional language in House Report 98-911 to establish research centers in predominantly minority inst...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,739 Views
6 Pages

In this work, the view of a series of practical research-and-educational activities and mentorship within the institute Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek (RS RAS) are presented. STEM learning on-site, specifically related...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,277 Views
34 Pages

PPARs in Clinical Experimental Medicine after 35 Years of Worldwide Scientific Investigations and Medical Experiments

  • Anna Skoczyńska,
  • Monika Ołdakowska,
  • Agnieszka Dobosz,
  • Rajmund Adamiec,
  • Sofya Gritskevich,
  • Anna Jonkisz,
  • Arleta Lebioda,
  • Joanna Adamiec-Mroczek,
  • Małgorzata Małodobra-Mazur and
  • Tadeusz Dobosz

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Professor Walter Wahli’s discovery of the PPARs (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors) family of nuclear hormone receptors. To mark the occasion, the editors of the scientific periodical Biomolecul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,831 Views
19 Pages

Investigating Fishing Vessel Casualties in Peru: A Technical and Scientific Review to Support New Regulations

  • José Mantari,
  • Jorge Ramirez,
  • Edgardo Figueroa,
  • Joel Huerta,
  • William Cipriano,
  • David Amaya,
  • Lizbeth Cuba and
  • Carlos Guedes Soares

24 November 2023

The reporting system for fishing vessel and crew casualties in Peru needs a disruptive change in order to know what the risks in terms of marine safety are, who should manage them, and how they should be managed. According to a technical review on ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,370 Views
14 Pages

4 March 2025

Josef Albers’ Structural Constellations series, created between 1948 and 1966, represents a pioneering exploration of plastic laminates as an artistic medium. Leveraging the unique properties of these materials, including their smooth surfaces,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,240 Views
15 Pages

17 June 2023

In this work, we present a diagnostic study carried out on 20th century wall paintings in the Chapel of the Fallen of the Great War in the Cathedral of Parma (Italy). The Chapel was painted in the two-year period of 1921–1922 and has been recen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,189 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Restoration Guided by Scientific and Archival Investigations: The Bio-Cleaning of Lorenzo Duke of Urbino’s Sarcophagus, a Michelangelo’s Masterpiece in the Medici Chapels

  • Chiara Alisi,
  • Donata Magrini,
  • Silvia Vettori,
  • Barbara Salvadori,
  • Marina Vincenti,
  • Daniela Manna,
  • Monica Bietti and
  • Anna Rosa Sprocati

8 November 2022

The masterpiece this work deals with is the tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, completed by Michelangelo around 1533 in the New Sacristy of Medici chapel in Florence. Sacristy underwent an extensive restoration (2013–2020) and Lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,197 Views
18 Pages

Cultivating scientific literacy is a goal widely shared by educators and students around the world. Many studies have sought to enhance students’ proficiency in scientific literacy through various approaches. However, there is a need to explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,317 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2025

In the early nineteenth century, the London Missionary Society (LMS) established missionary outposts and printing presses in Southeast Asia, publishing a number of scientific periodicals and books, which subsequently informed the preaching policy on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
13,119 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2010

Scientific writing is an essential part of a student’s and researcher’s everyday life. In this paper we investigate the particularities of scientific writing and explore the features and limitations of existing tools for scientific writing. Deriving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,799 Views
18 Pages

28 December 2020

Previous studies have demonstrated that accessing external knowledge is important for organizations’ knowledge generation. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how the diversity and amount of organizations’ external scientific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,677 Views
24 Pages

In many nations, grades and standardized test scores are used to select students for programs of scientific study. We suggest that the skills that these assessments measure are related to success in science, but only peripherally in comparison with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,418 Views
17 Pages

Research, Reading, and Publication Habits of Nurses and Nursing Students Applied to Impact Journals: International Multicentre Study

  • María Begoña Sánchez-Gómez,
  • Gonzalo Duarte-Clíments,
  • Juan Gómez-Salgado,
  • María Elena González-Pacheco,
  • María Elisa de Castro-Peraza,
  • María Mercedes Novo-Muñoz,
  • José Ángel Rodríguez-Gómez,
  • José Ramón Martínez-Riera,
  • Rafaella Pessoa-Moreira and
  • Ana Isabel Bonilla-Calero
  • + 1 author

Publishing in JCR and SJR journals has become crucial for curricular development. Results from nursing investigations “compete” for publication in journals which are not specific to the field of care, affecting the academic development of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,354 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2023

The study aimed to identify the scientific literacy level of students at the end of the third cycle of Portuguese basic education and verify how the variables sex, failure, a liking for the subject, socio-economic level of the schools and course opti...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,478 Views
14 Pages

Women in Science: Where We Stand?—The WHEN Protocol

  • Francesca Arnaboldi,
  • Alessia Macagno,
  • Marialuisa Villani,
  • Giacomo Biganzoli and
  • Francesca Bianchi

25 March 2025

Gender disparity in scientific fields, identified with the acronym STEM, is a complex issue whose multiple causes have distant origins in time. In the early development of scientific disciplines, women were often denied access to education and profes...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,030 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2024

For more than thirty years, 3D digital modelling has been used more and more widely as a research tool in various disciplinary fields. Despite this, the 3D models produced by different research, investigation, and speculation activities are still onl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,093 Views
9 Pages

15 October 2021

We investigated the scientific reasoning competencies of pre-service science teachers (PSTs) using a multiple-choice assessment. This assessment targeted seven reasoning skills commonly associated with scientific investigation and scientific modeling...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,219 Views
19 Pages

The Tower of Babel of Pharma-Food Study on Extra Virgin Olive Oil Polyphenols

  • Maria Lisa Clodoveo,
  • Marilena Muraglia,
  • Pasquale Crupi,
  • Rim Hachicha Hbaieb,
  • Stefania De Santis,
  • Addolorata Desantis and
  • Filomena Corbo

28 June 2022

Much research has been conducted to reveal the functional properties of extra virgin olive oil polyphenols on human health once EVOO is consumed regularly as part of a balanced diet, as in the Mediterranean lifestyle. Despite the huge variety of rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,597 Views
27 Pages

24 April 2021

Scenic beauty is one of the most-commonly used indicators in the inventory and assessment of geosites for geoconservation, geoheritage management and geotourism development. It is an important driver of tourists to visit natural areas and it also pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
24,342 Views
26 Pages

Farming faces challenges that increase the adverse effects on farms’ economics, labor, and the environment. Smart farming technologies (SFTs) are expected to assist in reverting this situation. In this work, 1064 SFTs were derived from scientif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,462 Views
17 Pages

4 November 2022

The Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by the Chinese government in 2013, has exerted great influence, not only on geopolitics and the economy but also on scientific research. This paper investigates the relationship between scientific collaboration...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,832 Views
14 Pages

“What about Military Decision-Making?”: A Bibliometric Review of Published Articles

  • Ivan D’Alessio,
  • Umberto Aitella,
  • Anna Maria Giannini and
  • Jessica Burrai

21 June 2024

Decision-making processes in the military domain constitute a strategic field of research in cognitive psychology, although there are currently few scientific publications addressing the topic. Professionals in the field and interested parties need a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
16,693 Views
18 Pages

13 January 2025

Inquiry-based learning (IBL) has become a cornerstone of contemporary science education, championed by frameworks like the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). While designed to engage students actively in scientific practices, inquiry is often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,415 Views
11 Pages

This article was written to investigate the research on the scientific directions for flying cars at the preliminary design stage to provide a rationale for the choice of scientific research in the area of flying cars. At present, the population of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
974 Views
19 Pages

Application of Near-Space High-Altitude Balloon in Earth Observation

  • Zhanchao Wang,
  • Min Huang,
  • Wenhao Zhao,
  • Zixuan Zhang,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Guangming Wang,
  • Yixin Zhao and
  • Lulu Qian

4 November 2025

Near space, as a critical atmospheric domain with unique physical, electromagnetic, and biological characteristics, remains a frontier with extensive unresolved scientific questions in atmospheric physics, electromagnetic environment dynamics, and bi...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,469 Views
10 Pages

30 January 2023

The popularisation of complex biomedical concepts brought about by COVID-19 has led to the rapid proliferation and diffusion of scientific misinformation, particularly among individuals with inadequate levels of scientific and digital literacy. A cro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,463 Views
27 Pages

10 July 2024

This study aims to explore the relationship between the utilization of scientific and technological information resources and breakthrough innovation in enterprises, examining the moderating role of strategic aggressiveness in this relationship. Base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,383 Views
13 Pages

Global Evidence on Flipped Learning in Higher Education

  • Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar and
  • Emilio Abad-Segura

The teaching dynamic has positioned flipped learning as a pedagogical model, a methodology that helps teachers prioritize active learning during class time by assigning students reading materials and presentations to view at home or outside of class....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,933 Views
12 Pages

22 April 2023

The goal of science education has shifted from teaching scientific concepts to facilitating students’ active role in making sense of phenomena through engaging in scientific practices (SPs). While engaging in scientific practices, students use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,044 Views
15 Pages

The Collaboration Patterns of Institution during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Chenbo Fu,
  • Xuejiao Liang,
  • Yong Min,
  • Qi Xuan and
  • Shanqing Yu

17 December 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific collaboration has profoundly influenced the sustainability of human science. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global health system, forcing various research institutions to cooperate more actively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
20,098 Views
25 Pages

Classification of Sustainable Activities: EU Taxonomy and Scientific Literature

  • Caterina Lucarelli,
  • Camilla Mazzoli,
  • Michela Rancan and
  • Sabrina Severini

11 August 2020

In March 2020, the European Commission published the EU Taxonomy, a classification system of economic activities that can be considered environmentally sustainable. Motivated by this policy initiative, we propose a bibliometric analysis, based on the...

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