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{"title":"Journal quartiles and article-level citation performance: a single-institution case study in academic dentistry.","authors":"Andy Wai Kan Yeung","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1894451","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1894451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Journal quartiles derived from the journal citation reports are widely used for research evaluation, yet empirical evidence on their relationship with article-level normalized citation impact within specific disciplines remained limited. By examining this relationship using article-level indicators, the study explicitly addresses how journal quartiles function in institutional research evaluation practice, rather than as standalone bibliometric descriptors. This study analyzed 1,180 publications (2015-2024) from a research-intensive dental school to examine how journal quartile related to category normalized citation impact (CNCI). Descriptive analyses demonstrated a strong and orderly gradient in CNCI and raw citation counts from Q4 to Q1. Multivariable Gamma regression with log link and negative binomial models showed that quartile effects persist after adjusting for collaboration type, authorship, document type, and publication year. These findings aligned with cross-field scientometric evidence showing that higher-quartile journals attract disproportionate citation attention. The results extended prior journal-level analyses by showing a strong adjusted association between quartile and article-level normalized performance on aggregate. The study provided discipline-specific evidence relevant to institutional research strategy and publication planning. Future work could assess whether similar quartile gradients appear across other academic healthcare or biomedical subject areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1894451"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13590742/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From processing-centered innovation to analytical diversification: network evolution in virgin olive oil patents.","authors":"Turhan Karakaya, Sezai Tunca, Yavuz Selim Balcioglu","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1873036","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1873036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study examines how the technological structure of virgin olive oil (VOO) innovation evolved between 1990 and 2025. It asks whether the sector moved beyond its traditional processing base toward a more diversified innovation system, and whether analytical technologies became important connectors between technological domains.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A patent landscape analysis was conducted on 811 deduplicated simple patent families retrieved from Lens.org. Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) co-classification networks were constructed for three periods (1990-2004, 2005-2014, 2015-2025) and analyzed in terms of network size and density, Louvain community structure, technological-domain shares, and betweenness centrality. Robustness was assessed using Salton/cosine and Jaccard normalization and by excluding the incomplete final year.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The technological knowledge base expanded from 44 CPC subclasses and 72 co-classification ties to 86 subclasses and 328 ties. Modularity fell from 0.499 in 1990-2004 to 0.348 in 2005-2014 and then rose modestly to 0.376 in 2015-2025, a directional pattern reproduced under both normalizations. The analytical subclass G01N rose from 1.8% to 7.2% of CPC tokens and from 3.3% to 14.0% of patent families, and became a top-five bridging class in the recent period, while processing classes (C11B, A23L, A23D) remained the strongest full-period connectors. Within G01N, chromatographic and optical methods predominated.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>VOO innovation follows a hybrid pattern of diversification, analytical intensification, and selective re-specialization, rather than a complete transition to a fully integrated bioactive platform. Measurement capability is an increasingly consequential complement to, but not a replacement for, processing competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1873036"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13572592/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148972556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the evolution of epistemic emotions research: a bibliometric review from 2005 to 2024.","authors":"Jaya Shukla, Ram Manohar Singh","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1852187","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1852187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Epistemic emotions play a central role in fostering cognitive engagement and knowledge construction. Although research on epistemic emotions has expanded considerably over the past two decades, a comprehensive synthesis of the field's intellectual structure, thematic development, and emerging researchdirections has been lacking.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study addresses this gap through a bibliometric analysis of 185 publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science between 2005 and 2024 using Biblioshiny in R. The analysis examined publication trends, influential authors, journals, institutions, countries, collaboration networks, and thematic evolution to provide a comprehensive overview of the field.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings reveal sustained growth in scholarly output, particularly after 2016, reflecting the increasing recognition of epistemic emotions within educational psychology, cognitive science, and related disciplines. Thematic analysis indicates a strong theoretical foundation centered on achievement emotions, Control-Value Theory, and knowledge construction, alongside growing methodological innovation through affective computing and emotion recognition technologies.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This review provides a comprehensive synthesis of the intellectual development of epistemic emotions research and identifies strategic priorities for future research, including greater theoretical integration, methodological innovation, cross-cultural investigations, and technology-enhanced learning applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1852187"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13561978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diaspora contributions: evidence from the Outliers network building in Guatemala.","authors":"Camila Sáenz, Cindy García, Paulina Briz, María Klose, Andrea Carrascosa, Francis Sanchinelli","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1852444","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1852444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This community case study examined Outliers, a network-based community launched in 2024 to reconnect members of Guatemala's professional and scientific diaspora with local entrepreneurs and foreign residents committed to contributing positive change in the country. The study documented outcomes and lessons from the community's first year, focusing on strengthening national innovation capacity through structured networking and collaborative exchange. Using a mixed-methods case study design, data were drawn from survey responses of 93 members and follow-up qualitative insights to explore participants' motivations, engagement patterns, perceived value creation, and barriers to sustained involvement. Findings revealed high cross-sector diversity, strong demand for meaningful professional connections, and evidence of trust-building and knowledge exchange across borders. Members reported forming new collaborations and accessing expertise otherwise unavailable within local networks. Key limitations included time constraints, coordination challenges, and the community's early-stage governance structure. This research contributes to the literature on diaspora knowledge networks by providing empirical evidence that intentionally designed professional communities can facilitate early-stage relational infrastructure in emerging innovation ecosystems. It underscores how structured engagement of diaspora actors can strengthen national innovation capacity, promote cross-border collaboration, and support sustainable development initiatives in resource-constrained contexts. Outliers addresses these gaps by mobilizing dispersed professional and scientific networks to enhance persistent challenges related to access to specialized talent, fragmented innovation ecosystems, and the underutilization of knowledge and expertise embedded within its professional and scientific diaspora, collective problem-solving, and innovation. The case highlights the potential of intentional network design to bridge skills gaps and facilitate knowledge transfer in emerging economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1852444"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13556154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148922017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond predatory journals: peer review transparency as a preventive strategy for editorial integrity in scholarly communication.","authors":"Flavio Aliaga","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1850943","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1850943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the emergence of predatory journals, the integrity of scientific communications has faced serious challenges, particularly when this integrity is assessed solely through external indicators which, while providing an initial safeguard, do not ensure in practice whether there was a rigorous, independent peer review, or whether traceable evidence exists regarding the decision leading to acceptance. This study focuses on complementing existing detection systems with transparency in the peer-review process as a preventive strategy against the current opacity of this process in most scientific journals. Furthermore, this structural vulnerability is not limited to clearly deceptive journals but may also be reflected in legitimate journals due to weaknesses in governance, poor oversight, or manipulation by unethical actors, without necessarily implying an explicit intent to engage in misconduct. This transparency alone does not solve the problem of predatory journals, but by intervening at the most critical and vulnerable point, it could be considered a strategy that-through explicit peer review policies (<i>ex ante</i>), process traceability (<i>in-process</i>), and auditability (<i>ex post</i>)-and progressive or full disclosure of review reports-can prevent anomalies or mitigate the impact of malpractice on editorial integrity. Finally, this study does not seek to replace existing predatory journal identification systems but to complement the verification of editorial processes with strategies that are integral and genuine, ensuring trust and truth in scientific communications.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1850943"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13541910/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148898447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diaspora-driven knowledge diplomacy: rethinking transnational education through the CIESDEMEX model in the Global South.","authors":"Daniel Arturo Romero León, Salvador Tapia Spinoso, Heidy Yelni Díaz Oviedo","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1864987","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1864987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The migration of highly skilled professionals from the Global South has traditionally been framed as brain drain, emphasizing the loss of human capital and weakened national innovation systems; however, recent scholarship highlights the potential of scientific diasporas to enable knowledge circulation and transnational collaboration. This article aims to conceptualize how diaspora engagement, transnational education, and knowledge diplomacy can be integrated into a coherent framework for internationalization. Using a conceptual analysis approach, the study develops a multi-level model inspired by the CIESDEMEX initiative, examining how diaspora networks, higher education institutions, and policy actors interact to structure knowledge flows. The findings suggest that institutionalizing diaspora engagement and leveraging digital transnational education can transform fragmented exchanges into sustained systems of collaboration, while knowledge diplomacy provides the governance framework that aligns education, international cooperation, and development strategies. The article concludes that this integrated approach offers a pathway for Global South institutions to move beyond mobility-centered internationalization toward more inclusive, networked, and scalable models of knowledge circulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1864987"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13526631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148868147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data privacy governance and employee trust: evidence from Vietnamese commercial banks.","authors":"Thanh Vo Phuc Truong, Quoc-Hieu Phan, Cuong Tran Thi, Linh Ha Le Khanh, Hai Tran Xuan Hoang","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1910765","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1910765","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study examines the structural mechanisms through which digital ethics governance and data protection strategies influence employee trust and adaptive performance in the commercial banking sector.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional quantitative design was employed, collecting data from 402 bank employees in Vietnam. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and PLSpredict were used to test the hypotheses and evaluate predictive capabilities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results reveal that digital ethics governance and data protection significantly enhance organizational justice. Organizational justice acts as a critical mediator toward employee trust. Furthermore, digital transformation intensity and organizational culture support directly promote employee trust, which in turn drives adaptive behavior.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings highlight that technological adoption alone is insufficient without strong ethical governance and structural support. Banks must integrate ethical safeguards with culture and justice mechanisms to foster trust and adaptive performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1910765"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13522404/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148851958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AI-driven marketing tactics and consumer behavior: a bibliometric review and systematic literature review.","authors":"Swati Ahuja, Amit Dutt, Nancy Sahni, Jaskiran Kaur","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1914129","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1914129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study synthesizes the literature on AI-driven marketing tactics and their influence on consumer behavior. It identifies dominant theories, contexts, methodological approaches, and key antecedents that explain how AI-driven marketing tactics shape consumers' cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses. This study also provides intellectual structure, publication trends and future research directions within this field.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study reviewed 155 articles, retrieved from the Scopus database and analyzed using bibliometric analysis, SPAR-4-SLR, and the TCM-ADO framework. The review covers publications from 2016 to 2026 and examines theoretical, contextual, and methodological approaches as well as factors influencing consumer responses to AI-driven marketing tactics.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The findings reveal a significant growth in research publications related to AI-driven marketing tactics over the past decade. The analysis identifies dominant theories, research contexts, and methodological approaches employed in the field. Furthermore, a five-category antecedent framework was proposed, including AI characteristics, consumer psychological and behavioral traits, consumer attitudes and responses, marketing and communication factors, and contextual and situational factors. The results highlight that AI-driven marketing tactics influence consumer decision-making through technological, psychological, marketing and contextual mechanisms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The research on AI and consumer behavior has been expanded; however, literature remains fragmented. Most of the prior studies have examined individual AI tactics, such as chatbots, personalized recommendations and targeted advertisements in isolation instead of as an integrated AI-driven marketing tactic. Moreover, earlier studies focused on factors such as technology adoption and purchase intention, while fewer studies examined cognitive, emotional and behavioral mechanisms through which diverse AI-driven marketing tactics influence consumer behavior.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>The study provides a structured synthesis of literature and highlights gaps for future research. It suggests the need for greater theoretical integration, cross-cultural investigations, and longitudinal studies examining consumer responses to AI-driven marketing tactics. The findings provide valuable insights for researchers to advance the field and for practitioners aiming to design effective AI-enabled marketing strategies that enhance consumer engagement and decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1914129"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13506738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148835340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial intelligence research in school leadership and management: a text mining-based computational literature review and future directions.","authors":"Turgut Karaköse, Orhun Kaptan, Gülenay Nagihan Kılıç, İbrahim Kocabaş, Ramazan Yirci","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1917781","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1917781","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in school leadership and management literature, it is important to understand not only which themes are emerging, but also how coherent, mature, and distinct these themes have become. To address this need, this study conducted a text-mining-based computational literature review of 112 articles published between 2021 and 2026. The corpus was analyzed through three complementary procedures: Structural Topic Modeling (STM), conceptual maturity analysis, and semantic network fragmentation analysis. The STM analysis yielded five thematic axes: AI readiness, adoption, and self-efficacy; ethical and data-informed AI decision-making; AI literacy and digital leadership; teacher leadership and distributed agency in AI-integrated teaching; and governance frameworks for ethical and human-centered AI leadership. Ethical and data-informed decision-making exhibited the highest expected topic proportion and conceptual maturity, while AI readiness and adoption displayed moderate maturity and temporal continuity. By contrast, AI literacy and digital leadership, teacher leadership and distributed agency, and human-centered governance remained less consolidated. The semantic network analysis indicated that, within the controlled concept dictionary, the selected core concepts formed a connected co-word structure rather than a fully fragmented one; however, this pattern is interpreted as semantic convergence among dictionary-defined concepts rather than as evidence of complete theoretical integration. Future research should therefore strengthen conceptual and empirical work on these emergent themes, while extending mature themes through longitudinal, comparative, and intervention-oriented designs.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1917781"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13506884/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148835396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constructing a Bayesian neural network model for the cross-sectional classification of psychological distress among older adults: comprehensive analysis of humor styles, communication skills, and physical activity experiences.","authors":"Keishi Soga, Keita Kamijo, Takuji Kawamura, Akari Uno, Yasuyuki Taki","doi":"10.3389/frma.2026.1882045","DOIUrl":"10.3389/frma.2026.1882045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to develop a model for the cross-sectional classification of psychological distress among older adults, using a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) to examine the relationships among humor expressions, communication skills, physical activity (PA), and social PA experiences (with friends), and their effects on psychological distress risk.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 5,265 Japanese adults aged 65 to 89 years. The predictor variables included humor expressions, communication skills, and social PA experiences. Depression was assessed using the K6 Psychological Distress Scale (cutoff ≥ 9). A BNN with three hidden layers was constructed with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) for feature importance identification.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The BNN model achieved 81.1% accuracy for high-risk detection. This study revealed self-enhancing humor coping and self-control communication skills as the strongest protective factors. Additionally, past PA experiences with friends and present PA experiences alone reduced the risk for K6-assessed psychological distress.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The BNN model identified positive humor styles, self-controlled communication abilities, past social PA, and present PA status as important predictors of contributors to the model output for classifying K6-assessed psychological distress among older adults, highlighting the potential relevance of social engagement in communication and PA.</p>","PeriodicalId":73104,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in research metrics and analytics","volume":"11 ","pages":"1882045"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13503313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148820596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}