Disciplinary dimensions and social relevance in the scientific communications on biofuels

Gomes, Janaína Nazzari; Dewes, Homero

doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2233-6

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“…Text mining, which involved information retrieval, textual analysis, information extraction, clustering, categorization, visualization, database technology, and data mining, was used [16]. Many studies [17][18][19][20][21][22][23] have also used text mining in researching different subjects, including health topics. For example, one study [23] analyzed the characteristics of general public opinion in relation to diabetes, diet, exercise, and obesity expressed on Twitter using a multicomponent semantic and linguistic framework.…”

Section: Text Miningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search (Preprint)

Finocchio¹,

Dewes²,

Mores³

et al. 2019

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BACKGROUND Obesity has become a health problem worldwide, determined by multiple and complex factors, and face to this challenge, governments have played central role in combating its rise. Considering this fact, public policies are introduced or enacted for the benefit of whole populations, taking into account the prospective of multiverse social stakeholders based on solid scientific fundamentals. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine obesity-related public policies (ORPP) in all US states and District of Columbia, in order to understand their scientific basis. METHODS We analyzed the public policies, as implemented in the United States, in the time window when this health-related trend was a major governmental concern. In total, 1,592 ORPP were selected and analyzed through text mining technique. RESULTS The multidisciplinary area was predominant in the documents analyzed (33.5%), followed by Health Sciences (28.5%), Social Sciences (20.7%), Life Sciences (15.1%) and Physical Sciences (2.2%). Besides, throughout the country most policies were community oriented and many of them were related to school and family environments, early care and education, hospitals and workplaces. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate an appropriate analysis and the use of scientific knowledge by policy makers, highlighting the multidisciplinary approach. The results showed that ORPP contents are generally uniformly framed in all US states. However, the implementation of public policies can be affected by a wide range of factors that challenge its effectiveness.

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Section: Text Miningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search (Preprint)

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Dewes²,

Mores³

et al. 2019

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“…This would raise global temperatures, resulting in more heatwaves, droughts, and floods, posing serious health and economic risks, because each country has its own policies and socioeconomic characteristics [2]. As society, with the introduction of oil the balance was lost due the development of new synthetic products of fossil origin [3] and we need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions where the use of biofuels can be an option to improving energy security also bring an increase in food production [4][5][6]. Biofuels can be defined as fuels from biomass, that offer different types of biofuel such as liquid, solid and gaseous.…”

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confidence: 99%

Trend in Publications Related to Biomethane Using a Bibliometric Approach

Jiménez-Islas¹,

Pérez-Romero²,

García³

et al. 2023

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The emission of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has allowed the development of biofuels such as biomethane. The aim of this research was to explore the characteristics of biomethane literature from 1978 to 2020 based on the database of Scopus and its implications using indicators bibliometrics. The information in the database was analyzed through the Gompertz model to determine the specific growth rate over the years. Also, maps were elaborated with the VOSviewer software to show in a visual way the collaboration between authors and keywords related to the topic of study. Documents were examined in a variety of aspects of the publication characteristics such as document type, language, authorship, countries, institutions, journals, high-cited papers. Results showed that the evolution of publications grew exponentially from 2006 to 2020, the specific speed of growth determined with the Gompertz model was 0.4 0.095 years -1 (𝑅 2 >0.99). 52% of publications are concentrated in five countries (Italy, India, China, the United States and Spain). Bioresource Technology is the journal with the highest number of publications and citations, the authors publish in quartile 1 and 2 journals. The biomethane topic has a growing number of publications and citations due to the collaboration between researchers from different countries. The present work can be contrasted with the analysis of bibliographic indicators with other databases to determine the level of collaboration with other journals with different index.

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“…These new advances may cause significant changes in the socio-economic, agricultural, and technological framing of bioenergy [49][50][51]. Furthermore, there is worldwide concern regarding the development of the globally integrated framework for bioenergy, its environmental impact, and its relevance in the bioeconomy [52][53][54][55]. Alternative sources of feedstock for bioenergy not competing with the production of food are increasingly necessary, as they relate to concerns regarding climate change, food, and energy security in different nations.…”

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Trends in Synthetic Biology in the Bioeconomy of Non-Food-Competing Biofuels

Fantinel

Margis

Talamini

et al. 2022

SynBio

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Despite the acknowledged relevance of renewable energy sources, biofuel production supported by food-related agriculture has faced severe criticism. One way to minimize the considered negative impacts is the use of sources of non-food biomass or wastes. Synthetic biology (SB) embraces a promising complex of technologies for biofuel production from non-edible and sustainable raw materials. Therefore, it is pertinent to identify the global evolution of investments, concepts, and techniques underlying the field in support of policy formulations for sustainable bioenergy production. We mapped the SB scientific knowledge related to biofuels using software that combines information visualization methods, bibliometrics, and data mining algorithms. The United States and China have been the leading countries in developing SB technologies. The Technical University of Denmark and Tsinghua University are institutions with higher centrality and have played prominent roles besides UC Los Angeles and Delft University Technology. We identified six knowledge clusters under the terms: versatile sugar dehydrogenase, redox balance principle, sesquiterpene production, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, recombinant xylose-fermenting strain, and Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4. The emerging trends refer to specific microorganisms, processes, and products. Yarrowia lipolytica, Oleaginous yeast, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, and Microalgae are the most prominent microorganisms, mainly from the year 2016 onward. Anaerobic digestion, synthetic promoters, and genetic analysis appear as the most relevant platforms of new processes. Improved biofuels, bioethanol, and N-butanol are at the frontier of the development of SB-derived products. Synthetic biology is a dynamic interdisciplinary field in environmentally friendly bioenergy production pushed by growing social concerns and the emergent bioeconomy.

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Disciplinary dimensions and social relevance in the scientific communications on biofuels

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search (Preprint)

Text Mining of United States Obesity-Related Public Policies: Systematic Document Search (Preprint)

Trend in Publications Related to Biomethane Using a Bibliometric Approach

Trends in Synthetic Biology in the Bioeconomy of Non-Food-Competing Biofuels

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