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Chapter 38: Digital methods for technology assessment With the rise of digital media and the seemingly unlimited possibilities offered by Digital Methods (DM), TA is being confronted with the challenge of keeping up to speed, but also with the opportunity to make use of this data and improve the empirical ground with which to provide […]

Pierluigi Toma, Patricia Laurens: Regional development and intellectual capital: Unveiling the innovation-tradition dilemma. In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, vol. 96, pp. 102087, 2024, ISSN: 0038-0121. AbstractIn the agri-food sector, intellectual capital includes innovation and tradition, which are often wrongly perceived as incompatible. The impact of intellectual capital on regional development has not been widely studied, particularly [...]

Every four years, the major Science and Technology Studies academic societies from Europe and North America, EASST and 4S, gather for a joint meeting. That happened this year, where EASST-4S 2024 took place in Amsterdam. On July 19th, Ale Abdo and Marc Barbier organized the workshop Semantic, social, spatial and temporal network and cluster analyses […]

Martina Zuñiga D, Francisca L. Aranda, Fabian Hernandez-Tenorio, Karla A. Garrido, Manuel F. Meléndrez, Enrique M. Combatt, Manuel Palencia, Daniel A. Palacio: Advances and Applications of Polyelectrolytes. In: Chile, 2024. AbstractIn recent decades, polyelectrolytes (PELs) have attracted significant interest owing to a surge in research dedicated to the development of new technologies and applications at [...]

Stéphanie Truchet-Aznar, Francis Aubert, Olivier Aznar, Béatrice Davi: How Does Regional Science Address Environmental Issues? A Bibliometric Analysis of Two Decades of Publications. In: Sage, 2024, ISSN: 0160-0176. AbstractUsing bibliometric methods, this paper is aimed at providing an overview of Regional Science publications that address environmental issues. The analysis covers a corpus of 1145 articles [...]

Salma Mesmoudi, Fanny Dégeilh, Waldo Cancino, Mathieu Rodic, Denis Peschanski, Francis Eustache: Transdisciplinary method for exploration and visualization of neuroimaging papers and databases: Application to PTSD. In: 2024, (Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique). AbstractA major improvement in MRI techniques has led to an exponential increase in data acquisition and, consequently, in the number of published articles [...]

Bo Li, Zeshui Xu, Xinxin Wang: Computational intelligence and its dynamic development: statistical exploration, comprehensive evaluation and prospect expansion. In: Soft Computing, vol. 28, pp. 9371–9386, 2024. AbstractComputational intelligence (CI) has become one of the most useful and successful tools for dealing with uncertainties and complex problems in many fields, such as neural networks, genetic [...]

Muhammad Asif Khan, Humaira Farid, Imtiaz Ali: Bibliometric Analysis of Dubious Research. In: Bibliometrics - An Essential Methodological Tool for Research Projects [Working Title], 2024. AbstractRetracted papers are scientific or scholarly works officially withdrawn by the publisher or journal after their initial publication. The primary goal of retractions is to rectify the literature and alert [...]

Last week, Ale Abdo and Joenio Costa presented at the first ever OpenAlex User Conference a short talk entitled “Analysing OpenAlex data with Cortext”, highlighting the current and future ways in which Cortext Manager (CM) interoperates with OpenAlex data, namely: These features were first mentioned here, together with others underway, on the roadmap presented in […]

On May 2024, Ale Abdo was at the University of São Paulo invited by two departments to talk about different aspects of Cortext. On the 22nd, a workshop organized with professor Gisele Craveiro and doctoral student José Beluzo received students of the Public Policy graduate program of the School for Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH-USP). […]