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Scientometrics Applications in Building Engineering and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 17934

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Gobinath Ravindran

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Department of Civil Engineering, SR University, Warangal, Telangana, India
Interests: civil engineering materials; sustainable development; artificial intelligence; material innovation; geotechnology; environmental geotechnology
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Prof. Dr. Vutukuru Mahesh

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, SR University, Warangal, Telangana, India
Interests: scientometrics; composites; cognitive science; engineering education research; design thinking

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Scientometrics is a branch of statistics concerned with measuring and analysing scholarly literature. Scientometrics is a branch of informatics. The measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citations, and the use of such measurements in policy and management contexts are all major research issues. In practise, scientometrics and other scientific fields such as information systems, information science, science of science policy, science sociology, and metascience have significant overlap. According to critics, over-reliance on scientometrics has created a system of perverse incentives, resulting in a “publish or perish” environment that leads to low-quality research. This particular field is applied in many domains and verticals, but is not so famous among engineering applications. Research methods include qualitative, quantitative, and computational approaches. The primary focus of studies has been on institutional productivity comparisons, institutional research rankings, journal rankings, establishing faculty productivity and tenure standards, assessing the impact of top scholarly articles, and developing profiles of top authors and institutions in terms of research performance. Scientometrics and bibliometrics are similar concepts. Scientometrics is a new scientific field that combines science and technology with information science, employing a variety of mathematical, statistical, and data mining techniques and procedures to measure and quantify scientific data. It is a scientific discipline that includes bibliometrics, informetrics, webometrics, librametrics, and other metric sciences. In fact, at a time when the scientific and technological revolution is at its peak but funding resources are scarce, measuring the eminence of research productivity is critical and widely acknowledged. This Special Issue focuses on applications of scientometrics in engineering and sustainable development.

Topics to be covered:

  • Scientometrics and its applications;
  • Engineering materials: design and development;
  • Bibliometrics applications in engineering;
  • Scientometrics application in sustainable development;
  • Environmental applications using scientometrics;
  • Author relationship process using scientometrics;
  • Recent advances in scientometrics applications.

Prof. Dr. Gobinath Ravindran
Prof. Dr. Vutukuru Mahesh
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • scientometrics
  • bibliometrics
  • sustainable materials
  • scientometric analysis
  • citation tracking tools
  • bibliometric software
  • building engineering

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Global Research Trends in Engineered Soil Development through Stabilisation: Scientific Production and Thematic Breakthrough Analysis
by Gobinath Ravindran, Alireza Bahrami, Vutukuru Mahesh, Herda Yati Binti Katman, Katakam Srihitha, Alamadri Sushmashree and Alugoju Nikhil Kumar
Buildings 2023, 13(10), 2456; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13102456 - 27 Sep 2023
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Soil, a naturally occurring resource, is increasingly used as a construction material. Stabilisation strengthens soil, which is weak as an engineering material. Stabilising soil changes its physical qualities, enhancing its strength. Soil stabilisation increases the shear strength and load-bearing capacity. Soil stabilisation refers [...] Read more.
Soil, a naturally occurring resource, is increasingly used as a construction material. Stabilisation strengthens soil, which is weak as an engineering material. Stabilising soil changes its physical qualities, enhancing its strength. Soil stabilisation increases the shear strength and load-bearing capacity. Soil stabilisation refers to any endeavour to change natural soil for engineering purposes using physical, chemical, mechanical, or biological methods, or a mix of these. Strengthening road pavements includes improving the load-bearing capacity, tensile strength, and performance of unstable subsoils, sands, and waste materials. Due to market demands and scientific advances, the number of soil-stabilising additives has increased. These innovative stabilisers include reinforcing fibres, calcium chloride, sodium chloride, and cross-linking water-based styrene acrylic polymers, which are geopolymers that boost the load-bearing capacity and tensile strength of soil. Many materials are being explored for soil stabilisation. In this article, the authors investigated the direction of soil stabilisation research. Scientometric analysis identifies stabilisation challenges and research trends in the field. This study analysed research patterns by countries, authors, institutions, keywords, and journals from 1959 to 2023; in 2021, 150 articles were published, which was the highest number in a year. Citations peaked at 3084 in 2022. With 253 publications and 3084 citations, India was the most productive country. Iran and France published the fewest, 34 and 33, respectively. The Islamic Azad University and the National Institute of Technology had the fewest published articles with 17 articles. This work can help track soil stabilisation research and will serve as an information document for future research. Full article
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Usage of Natural Fibre Composites for Sustainable Material Development: Global Research Productivity Analysis
by Gobinath Ravindran, Vutukuru Mahesh, Naraindas Bheel, Sampada Chittimalla, Katakam Srihitha and Alamadri Sushmasree
Buildings 2023, 13(5), 1260; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051260 - 11 May 2023
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Natural-fibre-reinforced composites (NFRCs) are revolutionising the way materials are used for various purposes, and they have enriched applications from aerospace to concrete. In tandem with these works, sustainable materials that are eco-friendly and possess strength and endurance are rapidly replacing conventional materials. Recent [...] Read more.
Natural-fibre-reinforced composites (NFRCs) are revolutionising the way materials are used for various purposes, and they have enriched applications from aerospace to concrete. In tandem with these works, sustainable materials that are eco-friendly and possess strength and endurance are rapidly replacing conventional materials. Recent decades have shown that many exuberant, curious-minded researchers are working on this particular domain, creating numerous materials for a variety of applications. What exactly is being performed in the laboratory is not being carried out in the field and duly disseminated. The major constraint is knowledge sharing and bottlenecks involved in assessing that research. Scientometrics is a field providing access to the consolidated research landscape report on a particular topic informing research on what work is being performed, how it is performed, who performs it, and what is the future scope. In this work, we analyse the research works, trends, and challenges related to NFRCs for engineering applications. It is found that research works, and the utilisation related to NFRCs, have soared in the last two decades, which proves to be a promising area to work upon. We use the Scopus database for the analysis, and scientometric analysis is carried over with biblioshiny. We find that there is a decreasing trend in publications (−12.74%/year); 272 sources are involved with 1690 documents published containing 5554 authors with 54 single-authored documents. There are 3919 keywords involved with 16.51 average citations received for the documents published. This work can be used to understand the research trend and also to take up newer research. Full article
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A Scientometric Analysis Review on Agricultural Wastes Used as Building Materials
by Nakkeeran Ganasen, Alireza Bahrami and Krishnaraj Loganathan
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020426 - 3 Feb 2023
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The rapid urbanization of developed countries and the difficulty in disposing of agricultural wastes have created opportunities for the construction industry to use agricultural wastes. A wide variety of agricultural waste materials are already in use with concrete as substitutes for cement and [...] Read more.
The rapid urbanization of developed countries and the difficulty in disposing of agricultural wastes have created opportunities for the construction industry to use agricultural wastes. A wide variety of agricultural waste materials are already in use with concrete as substitutes for cement and aggregates, as well as reinforcing materials. This study reviews the available literature published from 1935 to 2022 on agricultural wastes being used as building materials. The research utilizes a bibliographic approach based on the Scopus database. This article retrieves data employing the Scopus database and incorporates 671 articles based on the keywords, agricultural wastes used as building materials. The scientometric analysis is the second step, wherein the patterns of the obtained articles are investigated with various factors such as countries with the most publications, sources that have the most publications, most frequently appearing keywords, and articles with more relevant research works. A summary of the results obtained at various stages of the research is depicted in each phase. Detailed quantitative and qualitative discussions are also conducted to achieve the three main objectives: the summarization of quantitative data, discussion of the existing application, and identification of future research directions. These findings serve the future endeavor of agricultural waste-to-building materials’ incineration academic research. The scientometric review paves the way for academics from various nations to impart novel ideas and information and foster research collaboration. Full article
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Data-Driven Evolution Analysis and Trend Prediction of Hotspots in Global PPP Research
by Likun Zhao, Shaotang Yang and Shouqing Wang
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 206; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010206 - 12 Jan 2023
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Over the past three decades, there have been many comprehensive studies related to public–private partnerships (PPP), but the analysis at the macro level still lacks comprehensiveness and interpretability. Through the application of bibliometric analysis, 2-mode network, and strategic coordinate analysis, we systematically analyzed [...] Read more.
Over the past three decades, there have been many comprehensive studies related to public–private partnerships (PPP), but the analysis at the macro level still lacks comprehensiveness and interpretability. Through the application of bibliometric analysis, 2-mode network, and strategic coordinate analysis, we systematically analyzed the derivative characteristics of the literature data and the coupling characteristics of countries and keywords. Moreover, through the frequency and betweenness centrality, etc., this paper determines the evolution path of keywords and the evolution direction of theme words and realizes the prediction of theme words and keywords in the future. The results show that: (1) Through the three-stage biclustering analysis, we determined the hot theme words and hot keywords for each stage and focused the theme direction and main research content of the evolution, which led to great interpretability of the data analysis in the literature characteristics; (2) Through the distribution characteristics of time and space, the USA, China, the UK and other mainstream publishing countries and their main research hotspots were determined. Among them, developing countries have strong willingness in academic cooperation and great potential for academic development; (3) According to the derivative characteristics of the literature data, it is predicted that the future research hotspots are: the integration of business economy and sustainability, the integration of policy support and innovative technology application, and the urbanization promotion of developing countries. Based on the findings, this study makes concrete and targeted research methods and provides reference value and application value for the future research and analysis of PPP. Full article
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Trends in Adopting BIM, IoT and DT for Facility Management: A Scientometric Analysis and Keyword Co-Occurrence Network Review
by Stefania Siccardi and Valentina Villa
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010015 - 21 Dec 2022
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Facility Management (FM) regards the management of buildings’ assets and requires the administration of a large amount of data that must always be available, but today, they still consist of paper documents, which are susceptible to loss. This is one of the principal [...] Read more.
Facility Management (FM) regards the management of buildings’ assets and requires the administration of a large amount of data that must always be available, but today, they still consist of paper documents, which are susceptible to loss. This is one of the principal causes for costs increase in the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase, together with the lack of interoperability and communication. In recent years, the construction industry has been undergoing a process of digitalization, supported from the advent of new technologies that hit the market at low prices. This study aims to indagate the technologies introduced in in the FM sector, in addition the major authors and sources that are studying them. A bibliometric analysis is conducted on 220 documents belonging to the Scopus DB. The documents were analyzed using bibliometric analysis tools, such as Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. The results show how FM and the implementation of technologies in its practices, such as Building information modelling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Twin (DT), are fields with exponential growth in recent years. Other technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and augmented reality (AR), emerged as part of digitalization in FM, which is part of the transition towards Construction 4.0. Full article
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