Nikos Koutsoupias

University of Macedonia | UOM · Department of International and European Studies

In the present thesis we will examine the new possibilities that internet use can offer to democracy to become more direct and give citizens the opportunity for full participation in policy making. We will discuss the possibility of the creation of an e-ekklesia, on the model of ancient Athens, where every citizen will be able to expose his views a...

Abstract: In the course of a travel around the interne, users visit various host servers located all over the world and, inadvertently, place digital traces of their surfing habits. These hosts gather and register information about all users and their client computers for various reasons, such as security violation detection, frequency of page acce...

This case demonstrates the combined use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering on metadata from articles of “Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs” published in English under the auspices of the Centre for Strategic Research, an organization connected to Turkey’s ministry of foreign affairs. A period of 3 years (201...

Term frequencies is the basic, if not the main, measure that springs out, during the process of mapping latent information in a text corpus. This paper addresses the issue of exploring a set of textual documents based on their metadata and term frequencies, by introducing the mixed use of text mining and data analysis methods for analyzing social s...

The use of social media and their strategic use during military conflicts is now common practice. Among the aspirations of the warring sides is the creation of virtual cyber communities that are often a first step in building diplomatic coalitions that potentially advance the interests of each side. At the same time, they are a fertile field for di...

The domain of Foreign Direct Investments in Southeast Europe (FDISE) has experienced significant expansion, thus offering opportunities for systematic and bibliometric assessments. Nevertheless, there remains a notable gap as no bibliometric investigation has been conducted in this area to date. To address this gap, we used bibliometric analysis to...

Data set Analyzed in project "Ukraine Crisis in Economics and Business Research", by A. Bitzenis & N. Koutsoupias in Volume dedicated to the memory of E. Kouskouvelis

The COVID-19 pandemic outburst in March 2020 caused unexpected changes in the means, ways, methods that teaching, training, and learning usually take place. Teachers and educators around the globe gradually turned towards remote teaching methods taking advantage of the latest innovations in ICT and widely recognized internet platforms to meet those...

Career counseling is a process that helps individuals identify and explore career options, make informed decisions about their future, and develop strategies for choosing a suitable career path. It also helps students enhance their academic experience by providing them with the opportunity to apply the theoretical learning acquired in the classroom...

Parents facing child’s life-threatening diseases like cancer encounter a myriad of emotional challenges, often exacerbated by communication barriers. This study designed to explore the significance of effective communication and emotions’ management in improving the well-being and quality of life of these parents. The research was conducted on a sa...

Parents facing child’s life-threatening diseases like cancer encounter a myriad of emotional challenges, often exacerbated by communication barriers. This study designed to explore the significance of effective communication and emotions’ management in improving the well-being and quality of life of these parents. The research was conducted on a sa...

The book of abstracts of the IPIE2024 Conference that will take place 24-25/05/2024 in Mytilene, Greece. More details at the conference site: https://ipieconference.org/ Ioanna, Nikos and I are presenting our paper "Drama in Education in career guidance: a bibliometric review of interventions for 21st century career skills development" on Friday 24...

Με δεδομένη τη διαφορά μεταξύ των αμιγώς εκπαιδευτικών πλατφορμών μάθησης και των Μέσων Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης, η αποτύπωση των θετικών και αρνητικών πλευρών των τελευταίων αποτελεί αντικείμενο δυναμικής έρευνας. Είναι ευρέως γνωστό ότι οι εφαρμογές του συμμετοχικού Διαδικτύου αποτελούν ένα εξαιρετικό μέρος για επικοινωνία, διάδοση γνώσης, ανταλλαγή...

Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is a multivariate nominal categorical data analysis method widely utilized for decades. We use bibliometric methods to investigate MCA related research appliedin various fields from 1983 to 2021. The findings include the most important publication channels, authors, papers, and topics. In total, 1208 articles...

Η σοβαρή ασθένεια σε παιδιά συνδέεται με ψυχοκοινωνικά, βιοηθικά, πνευματικά και οικογενειακά προβλήματα, τα οποία καταπονούν τους συγγενείς αλλά και ευρύτερα την κοινωνία. Το ιδιαίτερο στοιχείο στις παιδικές νεοπλασίες δεν είναι μόνο η ευάλωτη πληθυσμιακή ομάδα στην οποία στοχεύει, αλλά και το σύνολο των δευτερογενών επιπτώσεων τις οποίες επιφέρει...

DATA SET ANALYSED IN: A Scientometric Review regarding FDI in SouthEast Europe for the time period of 2005-2024 Dr. Bitzenis Aristidis, Professor Dr. Koutsoupias Nikos, Professor Department of International & European Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki GREECE Abstract The domain of Foreign Direct Investments in Southeast Europe (FD...

The COVID-19 pandemic outburst in March 2020 caused unexpected changes in the means, ways, methods that teaching, training, and learning usually take place. Teachers and educators around the globe gradually turned towards remote teaching methods taking advantage of the latest innovations in ICT and widely recognized internet platforms to meet those...

ΠΡΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΣΗΜΕΙΩΜΑ Η σύνταξη και δημοσίευση τιμητικών τόμων με μελέτες συνεργατών, συναδέλφων και φίλων του τιμωμένου, που αφορά σε ευδοκίμως υπηρετήσαντες την επιστήμη καθηγητές, αποτελεί παλαιά ακαδημαϊκή παράδοση. Ακολουθώντας την παράδοση αυτή, ξεκινήσαμε την προσπάθεια της έκδοσης του τιμητικού αυτού τόμου. Την 31-08-22 αφυπηρέτησε ο συνάδελ...

Significant progress has been made in researching the term "Mount Athos™ using Humanities and Arts sources, and bibliometric review offers a way to evaluate these advancements systematically and quantitatively. The lack of bibliometric research exploring the production of Humanities and Arts research on Mt Athos is surprising. Our aim ἰς to fill th...

The objective of this study was to examine the fundamental fields of knowledge and forthcoming research directions in Education concerning Business and Economics (EBE) and to examine the spread of EBE and their diverse methodologies in the context of Education. We examined a total of 1246 scholarly articles and 2566 authors in EBE areas, extracted...

Credit rating is a matter of significance for institutions, professionals, and researchers in diverse sectors. Recently, it has garnered increased attention within the scientific community, particularly regarding various banking aspects. Our research employs bibliometric data to explore trends in credit rating. We examined 107 articles from Scopus-...

Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες η δεδομένη ανάπτυξη των τεχνολογιών πληροφόρησης και επικοινωνίας σε συνδυασμό με την ευρεία χρήση του διαδικτύου έχουν δημιουργήσει νέα δεδομένα και συνθήκες σε σχέση με την αμεσότερη και πιο ενεργή συμμετοχή των πολιτών στις δημοκρατικές διαδικασίες. Σε μια περίοδο όπου η τεχνοκρατική προσέγγιση, λόγω των εξειδικευμένων δ...

Cancer as a whole, but especially childhood cancer, creates a number of psychological, social, and family problems as well as practical and financial issues, which every parent is called upon to solve. This study focuses on childhood cancer and aims at a thorough analysis of the physical/organic, psychological, and social problems associated with t...

The association between Business Research and Data Mining Techniques (DM) has grown considerably, providing opportunities for systematic and bibliometric evaluations. Despite this, no bibliometric study has yet been conducted on this subject. To address this gap, we used bibliometric analysis to statistically evaluate published studies and measure...

In recent years there has been talk of “Palliative care”, an interdisciplinary approach of care, which focuses on supporting and relieving patients and their family environment in progressive and life-threatening illnesses. Its aim is to provide optimal comfort and quality of life, maintain hope and family cohesion despite the possibility of death...

Στο πλαίσιο διδακτορικής έρευνας, που διεξάγεται τα τελευταία χρόνια στο Τμήμα Εκπαιδευτικής και Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής του Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονίας, διερευνάται αν και κατά πόσο η βιωματική μέθοδος του Εκπαιδευτικού Δράματος (Drama in Education) συντελεί στην ανάπτυξη της αυτοαποτελεσματικότητας στη σταδιοδρομία (career self-efficacy) και των δεξιοτ...

Στην παρούσα μελέτη, διερευνούμε το θρησκευτικό στοιχείο στα ελληνικά ιστορικά σχολικά εγχειρίδια της Μέσης Εκπαίδευσης κατά τα έτη 1950 – 1982 με απώτερο στόχο την εξαγωγή χρήσιμων διδακτικών και ερευνητικών συγχρόνως συμπερασμάτων. Αξιοποιούμε την Ιεραρχική Βιβλιογραφική Επισκόπηση (Ι.Β.Ε.) για τον εντοπισμό, την ανάλυση και τον χαρακτηρισμό επιμ...

Η «Διαδικτυακή Πολιτική» είναι ένα πρόσφατα εισηγµένο ερευνητικό πεδίο που εστιάζει στην σχέση µεταξύ του Διαδικτύου και της Πολιτικής και δοµείται στο πλαίσιο που ορίζεται τόσο από την επιρροή του Διαδικτύου στις παραδοσιακές µορφές πολιτικής δραστηριότητας όσο και στον τρόπο που η πολιτική εν γένει επηρέασε την εξέλιξη του Διαδικτύου από τα πρώιµ...

1Πανεπιστήµιο Μακεδονίας, Σχολή κοινωνικών, Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστηµών και Τεχνών, Τµήµα Διεθνών και Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών 2Πανεπιστήµιο Μακεδονίας, Σχολή Επιστηµών Πληροφορίας, Τµήµα Εφαρµοσµένης Πληροφορικής ΛΕΞΕΙΣ ΚΛΕΙΔΙΑ ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ διπλωματία θρησκεία πίστη θρησκευτική διπλωματία βιβλιομετρική ανάλυση Η συγκεκριµένη εισήγηση ασχολείται µε ένα θέµα το ο...

Career counseling as a scientific field, adapted to the new, constantly changing demands of modern lifestyles and especially of the labor market, is called upon to integrate information and communication technologies into its services. In this context, international scientific research is investigating the emergence of online career counseling to r...

2017 έως το 2021. Μεταξύ των ευρηµάτων περιλαµβάνονται τα πιο κεντρικά κανάλια δηµοσίευσης, οι σηµαντικότεροι συγγραφείς, οι δηµοφιλέστερες εργασίες και οι κύριες θεµατικές τάσεις. Συνολικά, αναλύθηκαν 695 άρθρα τα οποία δηµοσιεύθηκαν σε 420 επιστηµονικά περιοδικά καταλογογραφηµένα στην υπηρεσία Scopus. Πέραν άλλων αποτελεσµάτων, εντοπίσαµε 1877 ξε...

This exploratory paper investigates the area of research on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and its practice with bibliometric methods since 2017. Amongst the findings are the most central publication channels, authors, papers and topics. In total, 695 articles were analyzed from the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, published in 420 Sco...

Extensive research has been conducted on the link between foreign direct investment and sustainability (FDIS). The earliest known document related to FDIS research in SCOPUS databases dates to 1992, indicating nearly three decades of ongoing research. The objective of this article is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of FDIS academic research from...

On the occasion of the completion of two hundred years since the beginning of the Greek Revolution, we recorded how the events of this period are presented in the history textbooks of previous decades that were addressed to students of Secondary Education. Specifically, via the Institute of Educational Policy Online Databases we collected high...

The abstract of a paper presented at the 11th Open-source Data Analysis Methods International Conference on 29/09/2022.

Με το παρόν βιβλίο επιχειρείται μια εισαγωγική προσέγγιση στη συλλογή, επεξεργασία και ανάλυση δεδομένων ποιοτικής έρευνας με αναφορές στις πιο διαδεδομένες μεθόδους και τεχνικές του χώρου και χρήση συναρτήσεων λογισμικού ανοικτού κώδικα, και συγκεκριμένα της γλώσσας R. Πρόκειται για εξαιρετικά δημοφιλή και τεκμηριωμένη γλώσσα με πρόσθετες βιβλιοθή...

FDI and Sustainability research from Jan 1,2022 to Jun 30, 2022

FDIS Most relevant sources . ASECU 2023 CONFERENCE PAPER / SEEJE JOURNAL

This chapter presents the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the course of studies and life career skills development of undergraduate students at the University of Macedonia, a mid-sized public Greek University. It describes a multivariate methodology research that investigated how the students, first-hand experienced the unexpected changes from f...

The COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020 forced Higher Education Institutions around the world to rapidly change course delivery from face-to-face on campus to synchronous online settings. This transformation at the University of Macedonia affected the undergraduate students’ psychology, career management and coping skills. Using a mixed methods resear...

Υλοποίηση των Μεθόδων PCA, CA & HCPC με την R Chapter 3, v.1.1

Τhis paper aims to map and analyze the intellectual framework of research in Greek doctoral dissertations on painting and its reflection on the international research canvas. By using fine art text analytics and social networks analysis techniques, this study builds the internal and external structure and research relationships of doctoral theses i...

In this paper an investigation of social media marketing techniques of Coworking spaces’ type of business is performed, using datasets acquired using social media monitoring tools. Mediatoolkit has been used to scrap data deriving from the activity of the WeWork Instagram and Twitter accounts which were collected on a 24/7 basis from varying locati...

Demo text for text mining

Βοηθητικά αρχεία διερεύνησης συναισθήματος με δεδομένα από τα απομνημονεύματα του στρατηγού Μακρυγιάννη

European Association for Research on Adolescence has just released its semi-annual Newsletter, a special issue about latest research on Adolescents during Covid-19 pandemic across Europe. Our team has contributed into this issue with a brief report on our mixed methods research approach to investigate undergraduate students’ perceptions of changes...

Part of Greek Sentiment Lexicon. See https://github.com/MKLab-ITI/greek-sentiment-lexicon

Απομνημονεύματα Στρατηγού Μακρυγιάννη Τοπλήρες κείμενο - Μεταγραφή από το πρωτότυπο του Γιάννη Βλαχογιάννη, επεξεργασμένη από τον καθηγητή Γιάννη Καζάζη.

Hierarchical clustering after Correspondence/Factor Analysis on bibliographic data. A new approach for automatic generation of thematic bibliographic clusters during the literature review process.

Dataset for text mining purposes

Zourna, Christina; Papavassiliou-Alexiou, 2. Ioanna; Koutsoupias, Nikos; Papakota, 4. Aikaterini (2021): A mixed methods research approach to investigate undergraduate students’ perceptions of changes enforced due to COVID-19. Advance. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.13606409.v1

A Workshop on Content Analysis with Open Source Software. Παρουσίαση της χρήσης Ανοικτού Λογισμικού για την Ανάλυση Περιεχομένου. See also/Δείτε ακόμη: -- Koutsoupias, N. (2018). Πολυμεταβλητή Ανάλυση Δεδομένων με τη Γλώσσα R., Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press. -- Koutsoupias, N., & Mikelis, K. (2019). Exploring international relatio...

The purpose of this paper is to review and survey Greek doctoral dissertations on painting's intellectual context for study. This research explores the internal and external structure and study relationships of doctoral theses in the National Database of PhD Theses, using fine art text analytics and social networks analysis techniques. Data and met...

The gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis was largely bridged with the increasing availability of digital texts and the dramatic improvement of algorithmic methods for extracting information from text.Most researchers working with data analytics software find that R-language capabilities are widely accepted and are utilizedin research a...

Data from Book: N.Koutsoupias, Data Analysis Methods with R (Uni of Macedonia Publishing)

This thesis's goal is to present an algorithm that serves to augment the regular word frequency algorithms by introducing and incorporating the synonyms of the words in the process of counting frequencies. The thesis consists of three parts that serve to inform the reader about why this change could be an improvement, provide a description of the t...

Modern tools for R, an open source "statistical" language, include various routines for Multidimensional Data Analysis (M.D.A.). In this work the installation and basic functions of R and its R-Studio graphical GUI are shown, along with the setup and usage of R packages for M.D.A. that comply with the French School results structure (interpretation...

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sent001 lex en Display Common Sentiment Analysis Lexicons

# R Script used in the related paper (see http://qdas.uom.gr) # For CODE, DATA, PROJECT FILE & Related Paper (in Greek) # Visit http://qdas.uom.gr # RQDA PROJ01 code

Abstract: ___________________________________________________________________________________ With the increasing availability of digital texts and the dramatic improvement of algorithmic methods for extracting information from text, the gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis has been bridged. Most researchers working with data analyti...

Data for the demonstration of a QDA project

Αbstract The emergence of Coworking Spaces as the workplace of the future has been inspirational for forming and analyzing datasets in this paper, as data have been collected utilizing Social Media Monitoring techniques related to digital marketing. Having focused on a case study of a coworking company, we use Mediatoolkit Social Media marketing to...

The Peloponnesian War: Preview with N-grams and Correspondence Analysis Nikos Koutsoupias & Kyriakos Mikelis University of Macedonia The work of Athenian historian and general Thucydides "The History of the Peloponnesian War" is examined in English with Correspondence Analysis and a combination of text mining methods and techniques as implemented...

Combined Country-Year Indexes for Import trade in cultural goods (percentage of total trade with all countries of the world) Export trade in cultural goods (percentage of total trade with all countries of the world) Adult Lifelong Learning (Participation rate in education & training, last 4 weeks) (25-64 yrs) (%) Human Development Index ranking Po...

Abstract Entrepreneurship exercises a dynamic influence on the countries’ long-term developmental prospects. The paper aims at evaluating youth entrepreneurial dynamics and at designating interventions that enable their further enhancement. The approach involves the analysis of the findings of a survey contacted among university students. The prima...

The increasing interest in culture and related industries has emerged as part of a new approach as regards national and regional development. Cultural and creative industries are considered to incorporate strong dynamics and potential for participatory and inclusive development. Therefore, the promotion of effective policies fostering the developme...

Με την εργασία αυτή επιδιώκεται η ανάδειξη των μεθόδων της Πολυδιάστατης Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων ως εργαλείων διερεύνησης ομάδων μεταβλητών και υποκειμένων σε διακριτά πεδία άσκησης πολιτικών με οικονομικές και κοινωνικές διαστάσεις. Η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνεται στις διαχρονικές επιδόσεις στα διερευνώμενα πεδία ενός συνόλου χωρών (Γαλλία, Ελλάδα, Ισ...

We introduce a new perspective in visualizing rankings of online sales platforms created as a decision support tool on behalf of international fine art buyers and collectors. By means of Multiple Correspondence Analysis, a descriptive statistics multivariate data analysis method, groups of top ranked online sellers are extracted and mapped taking i...

prosup.csv data set

pro.csv data set

International Relations Articles metadata from 2010 to 2012 issues of Perceptions Journal

USED FOR ANALYSING GHU.csv

Στο παρόν βιβλίο περιγράφονται οι δυνατότητες, οι συναρτήσεις, τα πακέτα κατασκευής και επεξεργασίας πινάκων συχνοτήτων και αυτά της υλοποίησης μεθόδων της Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων και συγκεκριμένα της Ανάλυσης Αντιστοιχιών και Ταξινόμησης κατ’ Αύξουσα Ιεραρχία για την επεξεργασία πινάκων συχνοτήτων και τη βοήθεια στην ερμηνεία των αποτελεσμάτων των μεθό...

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag fußt auf einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz, der zwei unterschiedliche Forschungszweige aufeinander bezieht und auf das Gebiet der Religionsdidaktik anwendet. Der eine ist der auf den Kompetenz-Begriff fokussierte Elementarisierungsansatz von Friedrich Schweitzer (Tübingen). Dieser Ansatz, wie er den meisten Rel...

Με το παρόν επιχειρείται μια σύντομη προβολή των δυνατοτήτων εφαρμογής μεθόδων Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων σε γραφικό περιβάλλον προσωπικών υπολογιστών. Το σύνολο του κώδικα που περιγράφεται έχει μορφή σεναρίων κώδικα και κατασκευάστηκε χρησιμοποιώντας τη γλώσσα R, με σκοπό την ευχερή αναπαραγωγή του κατά τη μελέτη του παρόντος.

Οι εφαρμογές της Πολυμεταβλητής Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων (ΠΑΔ) στο Ελληνικό ερευνητικό τοπίο βρήκαν χώρο δημοσίευσης στο παρελθόν κυρίως σε πρακτικά στατιστικών συνεδρίων, επιστη-μονικών επετηρίδων και συλλογικών τόμων. Κατά την τελευ-ταία εικοσαετία περίπου η Ελληνική Εταιρία Ανάλυσης Δεδομέ-νων (http://www.gsda.gr) ανέπτυξε σημαντική ερευνητική δραστηρ...

The paper introduces the use of Document Clustering in respect to the articles of a scientific journal of international affairs in Turkey; namely, the journal ‘Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs’. It is published in English under the auspices of the Centre of Strategic Studies (Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, SAM), which is connected to...

Part of the data files used in Koutsoupias, Ν. & Boutsiouki, S. (2017). Exploring European Cultural Goods Trade: A Multidimensional Perspective, Proceedings: ICIB17 (to appear).

Clustered journal articles (n=125) of International Relations publication Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs (Center for Strategic Research) for years 2010 to 2014.