An overview of animal science research 1945–2011 through science mapping analysis

Abstract

The conceptual structure of the field of Animal Science (AS) research is examined by means of a longitudinal science mapping analysis. The whole of the AS research field is analysed, revealing its conceptual evolution. To this end, an automatic approach to detecting and visualizing hidden themes or topics and their evolution across a consecutive span of years was applied to AS publications of the JCR category 'Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science' during the period 1945-2011. This automatic approach was based on a coword analysis and combines performance analysis and science mapping. To observe the conceptual evolution of AS, six consecutive periods were defined: 1945-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2005 and 2006-2011. Research in AS was identified as having focused on ten main thematic areas: ANIMAL-FEEDING, SMALL-RUMINANTS, ANIMAL-REPRODUCTION, DAIRY-PRODUCTION, MEAT-QUALITY, SWINE-PRODUCTION, GENETICS-AND-ANIMAL-BREEDING, POULTRY, ANIMAL-WELFARE and GROWTH-FACTORS-AND-FATTY-ACIDS. The results show how genomic studies gain in weight and integrate with other thematic areas. The whole of AS research has become oriented towards an overall framework in which animal welfare, sustainable management and human health play a major role. All this would affect the future structure and management of livestock farming.

Identification and Visualization of the Intellectual Structure in Graphene Research

“…Among many other achievements, science mapping become the keystone of visualizing and analyzing computer graphics (Chen et al, 2001), using ISI categories to represent science (Moya-Anegón et al, 2004), mapping the backbone of science (Boyack et al, 2005), evaluating large maps of disciplines (Klavans and Boyack, 2006), visualizing the citation impact of scientific journals (Leydesdorff, 2007a), mapping interdisciplinarity (Leydesdorff, 2007b), viewing the marrow of science (Moya-Anegón et al, 2007b), creating dynamic animations of journal maps (Leydesdorff and Schank, 2008), mapping the structure and evolution of chemistry research , proposing a consensus map of science , creating a journal map using Scopus data , mapping the geography of science (Leydesdorff and Persson, 2010), clustering over two million biomedical publications , creating more accurate document-level maps of research fields , detecting and visualizing the evolution of the fuzzy sets theory field (Cobo et al, 2011b), proposing a new global science map (Leydesdorff et al, 2013a,b;Boyack and Klavans, 2014), analyzing the investigation in integrative and complementary medicine (Moral-Muñoz et al, 2014), analyzing intelligent transportation systems , showing the evolution of bases knowledge systems , showing the scientific evolution of social work , outlining animal science research (Rodriguez-Ledesma et al, 2015), studying the conceptual evolution of marketing research (Murgado-Armenteros et al, 2015) identifying and depicting the intellectual structure and research fronts in nanoscience and nanotechnology in the world (Muñoz-Écija et al, 2017), and exploring the scientific evolution of e-Government (Alcaide-Muñoz et al, in press), among other brave new initiatives.…”

Análisis bibliométrico de los artículos científicos publicados en Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia en Colombia 2010-2019

“…Es necesario aclarar que los estudios vinculados con el hombre estuvieron relacionados con las enfermedades zoonóticas, la identificación de conocimientos y prácticas riesgosas en la relación humano-animal, así como las consecuencias de no observar las medidas de prevención de las zoonosis; información importante para los profesionales encargados la salud pública. En contraste, Rodríguez-Ledesma et al (19), centraron su investigación en áreas predeterminadas como: Alimentación de animales, pequeños rumiantes, reproducción animal, producción láctea, calidad de carne, producción porcina, cría genética y animal, aves de corral, bienestar animal y factores de crecimiento. Pero también se ha orientado al bienestar animal, a la genómica, a la gestión y a la salud humana.…”

“…El análisis de mapeo proporciona una visión global de investigar la evolución a través del tiempo. Sin embargo, cuando el período es muy largo, se deben abordar períodos más cortos para una mejor comprensión de las causas de esta evolución (19).…”

Bibliometric Analysis of Visualizations in Computer Graphics: A Study

“…animal science research (Rodriguez-Ledesma et al, 2015), positive organizational psychology (Martín-Del-Río et al, 2021), female entrepreneurship studies (Deng et al, 2021), lean supply chain management (Garcia-Buendia et al, 2021), human resource management (Santana & Lopez-Cabrales, 2019), translation studies ( Wang et al, 2019), educational leadership and management (Gümüş et al, 2020;Hallinger, 2019Hallinger, , 2020Kovačević & Hallinger, 2020), educational administration (Hallinger & Kovačević, 2019), sustainable entrepreneurship (Thananusak, 2019), sustainable tourism development (Yoopetch & Nimsai, 2019), and safety research and science (Jin et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021). In their study, Sajovic et al (2018) conducted a retrospective bibliometric analysis and mapping of the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, one of the leading journals in the field of VCG.…”

“…Science mapping has been widely used for studying the structure and development of various research fields such as visualization education research (Bratt, 2018), psychology (Flis & van Eck, 2018), integrative & complementary medicine (Moral-Muñoz et al, 2014), integrative and complementary oncology (Moral-Muñoz et al, 2019), information literacy (Stopar & Bartol, 2019), qualitative marketing research (Murgado-Armenteros et al, 2015), animal science research (Rodriguez-Ledesma et al, 2015), positive organizational psychology (Martín-Del-Río et al, 2021), female entrepreneurship studies (Deng et al, 2021), lean supply chain management (Garcia-Buendia et al, 2021), human resource management (Santana & Lopez-Cabrales, 2019), translation studies ( Wang et al, 2019), educational leadership and management (Gümüş et al, 2020; Hallinger, 2019, 2020; Kovačević & Hallinger, 2020), educational administration (Hallinger & Kovačević, 2019), sustainable entrepreneurship (Thananusak, 2019), sustainable tourism development (Yoopetch & Nimsai, 2019), and safety research and science (Jin et al, 2019; Li et al, 2021). In their study, Sajovic et al (2018) conducted a retrospective bibliometric analysis and mapping of the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , one of the leading journals in the field of VCG.…”