Trends in a South African Industrial Engineering Research Journal: A Textual Information Analysis Perspective

Uys, J.W.; Schutte, Corné; Esterhuizen, D.

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“…2 Topic models of large numbers of research publications 2 Topic models of large numbers of research publications Topic models have been used to map the themes in the publications in disciplines as diverse as industrial engineering (Uys, Schutte & Van Zyl, 2011), cultural studies (DiMaggio, Nag & Blei, 2013), fisheries (Syed & Weber, 2018); or on an interdisciplinary theme such as HIV research (Adams & Light, 2014). The size of the corpus of publications analysed by these studies also vary greatly, from approximately 4 000 research publications in the case of Syed and Spruit (2017), up to a corpus of 5 million digitised books (as analysed by Michel et al, 2011).…”

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A topic model of South African research publications on higher education

Botha¹,

Prozesky²,

Redelinghuys³

2021

Utilisation of South African Research on Higher Education

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Section: Figure 31 the Higher Education Research Archipelagomentioning

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A topic model of South African research publications on higher education

Botha¹,

Prozesky²,

Redelinghuys³

2021

Utilisation of South African Research on Higher Education

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“…For similar reasons, an analysis was performed on the South African Journal of Industrial Engineering (SAJIE) in 2010. At that time, a textual library of 283 journal articles capturing a 22year history was available for a semi-automated textual analysis using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a statistical topic model technique [8]. The result of this study is shown in Figure 3.…”

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The Status and Challenges of Industrial Engineering in South Africa

Schutte

Kennon

Bam

2016

SAJIE

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The industrial engineering discipline in South Africa is examined by introducing the context of the discipline and by revisiting its history. The drivers influencing the context and future of industrial engineering in South Africa are also considered, and the discipline is analysed in terms of the following aspects: university qualifications, employment in industry sectors, race and gender profiles, use and competence in industry, and income profiles. The analysis is based on a recent survey sent to practising industrial engineers, on membership data from the Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE), and on two internal SAIIE investigations. The study concludes that the success of transformation, particularly in terms of race, has been limited. The results also indicate that there are an almost equal number of black and white industrial engineers, yet the majority of black industrial engineers have technical qualifications, while the majority of white industrial engineers have academic qualifications. The results indicate that this limits the use of black industrial engineers in industry and, consequently, the success of their careers. This in turn means that there are fewer black role models to attract young black students to the discipline. Some preliminary opportunities to unlock the increased transformation of the profession are identified.

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“…However, there are few citation studies of science in Africa [3]. Uys et al [30] made an attempt to study how industrial engineering fields have been covered by the South African Journal of Industrial Engineering. Jacobs and Ingwersen [16] and Ingwersen and Jacobs [15] looked at the patterns of citations in specific fields of science.…”

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The Visibility of Engineering Research in South Africa, 1975-2005

Sooryamoorthy

2012

The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering

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Engineering as a branch of science has a crucial role in the growth of the economy. The growth and development of engineering is therefore highly relevant. One way to understand this is to examine the characteristics of the scientific knowledge produced in the field of engineering. Drawing on the publications in engineering from the ISI Web of Science over the last three decades, this paper looks at the visibility and importance of engineering research in South Africa. The visibility of research publications is studied in terms of the number of citations a publication receives. The analysis shows that the visibility of South African engineering research is determined by the number of authors involved in the production of a paper, the presence of international collaboration, the degree of collaboration, and the journals in which the papers are published. Engineering research in South Africa, compared with that of all subjects, is clearly growing. But the visibility of South African engineering publications, in comparison with all other subjects, has been diminishing in recent years. OPSOMMINGIngenieurswese as 'n vertakking van die wetenskap speel 'n kardinale rol in die groei van die ekonomie. Die groei en ontwikkeling van die ingenieurswese is dus uiters relevant. Een manier om dit te verstaan, is om die eienskappe van die wetenskaplike kennis wat op die terrein van die ingenieurswese geproduseer word te ondersoek. Deur na die publikasies in ingenieurswese op die "ISI Web of Science" te kyk oor die afgelope drie dekades, bestudeer hierdie artikel die sigbaarheid en belangrikheid van navorsing in die ingenieurswese in SuidAfrika. Die sigbaarheid van navorsingspublikasies word bestudeer aan die hand van die aantal sitasies wat 'n gepubliseerde artikel ontvang. Die ontleding toon dat die sigbaarheid van Suid-Afrikaanse ingenieurswese-navorsing bepaal word deur die aantal outeurs betrokke by die artikel, die teenwoordigheid van internasionale samewerking, die mate van samewerking asook die joernale waarin dit gepubliseer is. Navorsing in die ingenieurswese in Suid-Afrika is duidelik aan die groei in vergelyking met ander vakgebiede. Daarteenoor, neem die sigbaarheid egter af wanneer dit met ander vakgebiede vergelyk word.

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Trends in a South African Industrial Engineering Research Journal: A Textual Information Analysis Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

A topic model of South African research publications on higher education

A topic model of South African research publications on higher education

The Status and Challenges of Industrial Engineering in South Africa

The Visibility of Engineering Research in South Africa, 1975-2005

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