Peter Kokol

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• PhD Computer Science
• Head of Department at University of Maribor

Background: The application of bibliometrics in medicine enables one to analyse vast amounts of publications and their production patterns on macroscopic and microscopic levels. Objectives: The aim of the study was to analyse the historical perspective of research literature production regarding application of bibliometrics in medicine. Methods...

The digitalisation of healthcare, fueled by advances in technology and the COVID-19 pandemic can not only empower equitable access to global expert-level healthcare but also make healthcare more patient-centric. Every digital health solution has one common fundamental component: they all run on computing platforms and are powered by complex softwar...

Objective: This follow-up study aims to determine if and how the coverage of funding information in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) and Scopus changed from 2015 to 2021. Methods: The number of all funded articles published in 2021 was identified in WoS and Scopus bibliographic databases using bibliometric analysis on a sample of 52 prestigi...

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) remains a challenge and may continue to pose a major health problem in the future. Moreover, the influences of type 2 diabetes and being overweight on PCS remain unclear. This study aimed to assess these influences. We performed an observational study from October 2020 to July...

Chronic Lower Back Pain (CLBP) represents a pandemic diagnosis of contemporary society. Pain is a multidimensional personal experience influenced by various interrelated subjective and objective factors. In this study, we examined the impact of physiotherapeutic treatment on the quality of life (QoL) of patients with CLBP. Using statistical methods...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing leading roles in digital transformation, aiming to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and responsiveness of primary health systems and their services. Using synthetic knowledge synthesis, a bibliometric and thematic analysis triangulation, we identified the most productive and pro...

Background: The frequency of propensity score matching (PSM) use in research is exponentially increasing; however, its use in nursing has not yet been explored and is possibly underused. Methods: Synthetic knowledge synthesis has been used on two corpora of publications from the Web of Science bibliographic database for the following purposes: firs...

Introduction Sarcopenia is a multifaceted condition affecting between 10 and 16% of the global population, and although multiple classification algorithms exist, no prevalence has been reported for a representative sample of the Slovenian population. Furthermore, multiple behavioural factors, such as malnutrition, physical inactivity, sedentary lif...

Background: The frequency of proximity score matching (PSM) use in research is exponentially increasing; however, its use in nursing has not yet been explored and is possibly underused. Methods: Synthetic analyses were used first to identify the content of the current nursing PSM studies; second, the content of nursing observational, retrospective,...

Background: Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a well-established risk factor for incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease. However, evidence regarding its association with recurrent events is limited. To address this gap, we conducted a retrospective analysis of routine clinical data, focusing on patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infar...

Background Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a well-established risk factor for incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease. However, evidence regarding its association with recurrent events is limited. To address this gap, we conducted a retrospective analysis of routine clinical data, focusing on patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarc...

In this article we describe and analyze project management with use of computer supported software. The first section presents the project work, planning and project management. In the chapters that follow we describe computer supported project management, the greater part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of Podio system. At the end we have...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents a transformative technology that connects medical devices, sensors, and healthcare systems to enable real-time monitor-ing, data sharing, and advanced decision-making in healthcare. While the technical and clinical potential of IoMT has been explored extensively, research on the funding patterns and...

Background: The IoT and big data are newer technologies that can provide substantial support for healthcare systems, helping them overcome their shortcomings. The aim of this paper was to analyze the relevant literature descriptively, thematically, and chronologically from an interdisciplinary perspective in a holistic way to identify the most prol...

Objectives In solving the trust issues surrounding machine learning algorithms whose reasoning cannot be understood, advancements can be made toward the integration of machine learning algorithms into mHealth applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a transparency layer to black-box machine learning algorithms and empower mHealth applicati...

Background: Physiotherapy and chronic low back pain (CLBP) form a broad and quickly developing research area. The aim of this article was to holistically, thematically and chronologically analyze and synthesize the literature production in this research area and identify the most prolific research entities and research themes. Methods: This article...

Background: IoT and Big Data are newer technologies that can provide substantial support for healthcare systems and help overcome their shortcomings. The aim of this paper was to analyze literature production descriptively, thematically, and chronologically from an interdisciplinary perspective in a holistic way to identify the most prolific resear...

Background: Physiotherapy and chronic low back pain (CLBP) form a broad and fast developing research area. The aim of the article was to holistically, thematically and chronologically analyze and synthesise literature production and identify most prolific research entities and research themes. Methods: The article quantitatively and quantitatively...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed an exponential increase in use in various applications. Recently, the academic community started to research and inject new AI-based approaches to provide solutions to traditional software-engineering problems. However, a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the current status needs to be included....

In the rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence (AI), black-box algorithms have exhibited outstanding performance. However, their opaque nature poses challenges in fields like medicine, where the clarity of the decision-making processes is crucial for ensuring trust. Addressing this need, the study aimed to augment these algorithms with ex...

Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical and visualization technique. CA is extremely useful in analyzing either two- or multi-way contingency tables, representing some degree of correspondence between columns and rows. The CA results are visualized in easy-to-interpret “bi–plots,” where the proximity of items (values of categoric...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed an exponential increase in its use in various applications. Recently, the academic community started to research and inject new AI-based approaches to provide solutions to traditional software engineering problems. However, a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the current status is missing. To clo...

The first publication on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in pediatrics dates back to 1984. Since then, research on AI in pediatrics has become much more popular, and the number of publications has largely increased. Consequently, a need for a holistic research landscape enabling researchers and other interested parties to gain insights into...

Long COVID–19 syndrome is another vicious feature of COVID-19 infection, the mechanism remains unidentified. Several observational studies suggest that vaccinations might have protective and therapeutic effect on long COVID-19 and our study aimed to assess the influence of vaccination on COVID-19 patients. We performed an observational cohort study...

Historically the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in paediatrics dates back to 1984 with the intro-duction of a computer-assisted medical decision-making system called SHELP. Since then, research on the use of AI in pediatrics has become much more popular, and the number of reviewed publications largely increased. Consequently, a need for a holi...

Knowledge explosion is associated with the exponential growth of research literature production, triggering the need for new approaches to structure and synthesize knowledge. Traditional knowledge synthesis approaches have weaknesses like requiring many resources, being time and labor consuming, and being executed manually. To overcome these weakne...

Obesity is a complex disease that, like COVID-19, has reached pandemic proportions. Consequently, it has become a rapidly growing scientific field, represented by an extensive body of research publications. Therefore, the aim of this study was to present the research trends in the scientific literature on motivation and weight loss. Because traditi...

In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) remains a challenge and may continue to represent a major health problem in the future. Moreover, the influence of type 2 diabetes and being overweight on PCS remains unclear. This study aimed to assess this influence. We performed an observational study from October 2020 to July...

Featured Application In the field of medicine, daily high-stake decision-making scenarios arise. To enhance these decision-making processes, the utilization of modern machine learning techniques and their infusion with expert knowledge in a seamless manner while adhering to agile principles enables swift action and facilitates an understanding of t...

Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex, chronic disease affecting multiple organs with varying symptoms and comorbidities. Profiling patients helps identify those with unfavorable disease progression, allowing for tailored therapy and addressing special needs. This study aims to uncover different T2DM profiles based on medication...

Introduction: Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) is a well-recognised risk factor for ischemic heart disease (IHD) and calcific aortic valve stenosis (AVS). Methods: A retrospective observational study of Lp(a) levels (mg/dL) in patients hospitalised for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in our clinical routine was performed. The Lp(a)-associated risk of hospit...

Within this paper requirements and related gaps associated with cross-border pandemic management are analyzed. In order to systematically investigate the potential of solutions to close such gaps, trials can be executed and evaluated. Core elements of such trials are specific scenarios that frame the validation of the applicability of solutions. St...

Even though software can be found everywhere, software development has encountered many problems, resulting in the emergence of new alternative development paradigms. Among them, agile approaches are the most popular. While much research has been published about agile software development (ASD) in general, there is a lack of documented knowledge ab...

Interconnected computers and software systems have become an indispensable part of people’s lives in the period of digital transformation. Consequently, software quality research is becoming more and more critical. There have been multiple attempts to synthesise knowledge gained in software quality research; however, they were focused mainly on sin...

Scientific publications are received by the research community in various ways. Some articles are quickly cited, while others are discovered only after a longer period of time. The term ‘sleeping beauty’ is used to describe a publication that went unnoticed (asleep) for an extended period of time and then, almost suddenly, became interesting regard...

Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a complex polymorphic lipoprotein comprised of a low-density lipoprotein particle with one molecule of apolipoprotein B100 and an additional apolipoprotein(a) connected through a disulfide bond. The serum concentration is mostly genetically determined and only modestly influenced by diet and other lifestyle modifications....

The digitalization of healthcare fuelled by advances in technology and the increased prevalence of mobile smart devices and health-related internet of things can offer equitable access to expert-level healthcare globally. Growing demand for telemedicine, mobile health apps, and advanced data analytics have further established their role in a modern...

The accuracy of the prognosis of diabetes in patients with cystic fibrosis is crucial, as it highly connected with mortality and other complications. The prognosis of diabetes is a time-consuming process. Usually, it is performed by medical staff and can often lead to misdiagnosis. The aim of the study was to analyze and evaluate risk factors of de...

To analyze the development of contemporary nursing in Ex-Yugoslavia countries. A performance and spatial bibliometric analysis combined with synthetic knowledge synthesis were completed to profile the development of the nursing literature production, volume, and thematic content. The corpus was harvested from the Web of Science, limiting the search...

The use of artificial intelligence in paediatrics has vastly increased in the last few years. Interestingly, no historical bibliometric study analysing the knowledge development in this specific paediatric field has been performed yet, thus our study aimed to close this gap. References Publication Years Spectrography (RPYS), more precisely Cited Re...

Machine Learning is an increasingly important technology dealing with the growing complexity of the digitalised world. Despite the fact, that we live in a ‘Big data’ world where, almost ‘everything’ is digitally stored, there are many real-world situations, where researchers are still faced with small data samples. The present bibliometric knowledg...

Background: The pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus is complex and still unclear in some details. The main feature of diabetes mellitus is high serum glucose, and the question arises of whether there are other statistically observable dysregulations in laboratory measurements before the state of hyperglycemia becomes severe. In the present stu...

Purpose: In the world of learning with medical supervised machine approaches, we often face a lack of dataset objects suitable for training a classifier. Two of the most common reasons are the lack of funds to perform all of the required tests and dataset gathering, or simply the condition is too rare to collect a suitable number of cases. In this...

The use of artificial intelligence in paediatrics has vastly increased in the last few years. Interestingly, no historical bibliometric study analysing the knowledge development in this specific paediatric field has been performed yet, thus our study aimed to close this gap. References Publication Years Spectrography (RPYS), more precisely CitedRef...

Echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic tool which can be performed on children of all ages including foetuses and new-borns, due to the fact that no radiation is involved. No historical bibliometric study or influential papers in paediatric echocardiography has been performed yet, so our study was aimed to close this gap. References Publicat...

Echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic tool which can be performed on children of all ages including foetuses and new-borns, due to the fact that no radiation is involved No historical bibliometric study of influential papers in paediatric echocardiography has been performed yet, so our study was aimed to close this gap. References Publicati...

The development of modern nursing and consequently nursing research in Ex- Yugoslavia is about a century old. To profile the development, volume, and content of nursing research we completed a performance and spatial bibliometric analysis combined with synthetic content analysis to identify the most productive countries and institutions, most proli...

Interconnected computers and software systems have become an indispensable part of people's lives, therefore software quality research is becoming more and more important. There have been multiple attempts to synthesize knowledge gained in software quality research, however, they were focused mainly on single aspects of software quality and not to...

Knowledge synthesis can be defined as “the contextualization and integration of research findings of individual research studies within the larger body of knowledge on the topic”. The synthesis can be done using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches. The development of the qualitative knowledge synthesis methodologies and the rate of their use...

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading global causes of death. Following the positive experiences with machine learning in medicine we performed a study in which we assessed how machine learning can support decision making regarding coronary artery diseases. While a plethora of studies reported high accuracy rates of machine learning algori...

Theoretical issues: With the explosive growth in the research literature production, the need for new approaches to structure knowledge emerged. Method: Synthetic content analysis was used in our meta-study. Results and discussion: Our meta-study showed that content analysis is frequently used in nursing research in a very wide spectrum of applicat...

Dr. Buonocore, a pioneer of Adhesive Dentistry, published his landmark paper about increasing the adhesion of acrylic filling material to enamel surfaces in 1955. His paper was cited rarely till 1971, and then it suddenly became cited extensively, showing characteristics of a remarkable Sleeping Paper. The citation history of the Buonocore paper wa...

Objective To analyze the bibliometric patterns of meta-approaches use in nursing research literature. Methods Descriptive, exploratory and historical bibliometrics analyses were used. The papers were harvested from the Web of Science Core Collection. Findings The search resulted in 2065 publications. The trends in using most individual meta appro...

One of the increasingly important technologies dealing with the growing complexity of the digitalization of almost all human activities is Artificial intelligence, more precisely machine learning Despite the fact, that we live in a Big data world where almost everything is digitally stored, there are many real-world situations, where researchers ar...

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices, which might hinder comprehension, increase code complexity and fault-proneness and decrease maintainability of software systems. The aim of our study was to perform a triangulation of bibliometric and thematic analysis on code smell literature production. The search was performed o...

Introduction of the Scrum approach into software engineering has changed the way software is being developed. The Scrum approach emphasizes the active end-user involvement, embracing of change, and /iterative delivery of products. Our study showed that Scrum has different variants or is used in combination with different methods. Some tools not nor...

Information exposing, in conjunction with technological innovations and the emergence of social media, altered the traditional roles of academic libraries and enabled librarians to become necessary partners in research. The role of academic librarians in conducting systematic reviews is well recognised, however, their role in conducting scoping rev...

Introduction of the Scrum approach into software engineering has changed the way software is being developed. The Scrum approach emphasizes the active end-user involvement, embracing of change, and /iterative delivery of products. Our study showed that Scrum has different variants or is used in combination with different methods. Some tools not nor...

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of deathand it is expected to remain so. Machine learning hashad a significant impact in many areas, including variousmedical applications. The aim of the study was to anal-yse and evaluate lipoprotein a - Lp (a) as a cardiovascu-lar risk factor by using regression machine learning tech-niques. The s...

Information exposing, in conjunction with technological innovations and the emergence of social media, altered the traditional roles of academic libraries and enabled librarians to become necessary partners in research. The role of academic librarians in conducting systematic reviews is well recognised, however, their role in conducting scoping rev...

Simultaneous inventions and Sleeping papers are two interesting phenomena in scientific discovery and knowledge development processes, however they were not yet researched as a single occurrence. To close this gap, we performed a bibliometric study in which we analysed if simultaneous discoveries can also be subjected to delayed recognition. The an...

Purpose: Neck metastases in breast carcinoma are relatively rare and patients show poor survival rates. A controversy exists over whether neck metastases can be treated as distant or loco-regional metastases. The literature concerning the distribution of metastases in the neck is lacking, as well as data about whether metastases in the higher neck...

Computers were introduced into nursing care areas in the early 1950s; however, nursing informatics' historical roots emerged much earlier. Contrary to previous studies, which used manual review of the nursing informatics literature, we employed an automated, electronic approach with specialized software to identify its historical roots. The corpus...

The growing importance of information and enormous amounts of produced data put a big emphasis on data analysis tools. Data analysis off enormous amounts of data uses a lot of processing power and time even if the data contains a small amount of information. That is why it is important to identify the best source of data to minimize its amount and...

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices, which might hinder comprehension, increase code complexity and fault-proneness and decrease maintainability of software systems. The aim of our study was to perform a triangulation of bibliometric and thematic analysis on code smell literature production. The search was performed o...

Purpose: To analyze the distribution and pattern of neck metastasis in breast cancer (BC) patients. Methods: The clinicopathological characteristics of 41 patients with BC and confirmed neck metastasis (NM) treated at our institution between 2010 and 2016 were retrospectively analyzed by reviewing medical records. The diagnosis of NM was confirmed...

Various factors have been attributed for delayed recognition of Sleeping Papers, for example introducing new technologies which didn't yet exist, or proposing ideas that were too much ahead of time to be interesting or usable in practice or for further research. In this letter , we analyse another possible reason, namely missing the target audience...

Introduction: Journal bibliometric indicators are useful tools in assessing the characteristics, development history, and future trending of a particular medical journal. Moreover, they can help potential authors when deciding which journal to submit their work to in order to achieve the highest visibility. Methods: A single journal study of the...

Number of journals is raising exponentially. Consequently authors have a problem which journal to select when publishing their research. Journal portfolios including information like impact factors and productivity trends, state of the art topics, topics evolution and citation patterns might help authors to select the journal where their paper will...

Background Children with developmental disabilities may need support with motor skills such as balance improvement, cognitive skills such as vocabulary learning, or social skills such as adequate interpretation of emotional expressions. Digital interactive games could support the standard treatments. We aimed to review clinical studies which invest...

Background: Latest advances in information and health technologies enabled dentistry to follow the paradigm shift occurring in medicine – the transition to so called smart medicine. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to assess how ‘smart’ is smart dentistry as of the end of 2018. Methods: We analysed the state of the art in smart dentistry, per...

Purpose: The aim of this paper was to present the results of the first study in which nursing research literature production was studied in the relation to country and health determinants. Design: Bibliometric analysis was used. Methods: The corpus of nursing publications was harvested from the Scopus indexing and abstracting database. Using r...

Background: The application of bibliometrics in healthcare research is becoming popular, however at present it is still an under-researched area. Methods: In our study we used a bibliometric technique called bibliometric mapping to visualize the published research regarding the influence of physical activity to children’s quality of life. The resea...

Highlights •Bibliometrics use in nursing is comparable to bibliometrics use in general •Application of bibliometrics in nursing is gaining in popularity •There are research gaps regarding the use of altimetric and big data •Nursing focused applications started only recently •bibliometrics is becoming integrated part of funding polices also in nurs...

Background: Latest advances in information and health technologies enabled dentistry to follow the paradigm shift occurring in medicine – the transition to so called smart medicine. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to assess how ‘smart’ is smart dentistry as of the end of 2018. Methods: We analysed the state of the art in smart dentistry, per...

Aims: The aim of the paper is to present the results of the Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy analysis of the historical roots of knowledge development in cardiovascular nursing. Background: The importance of studying nursing history is well known. It enables nurses to learn from past experiences of other nurses to influence the everyday prac...

Since funding acknowledgements started to be added to bibliographic database records, bibliometric analysis has been used made to identify funding patterns in research literature production. A study was made in which analysis of Software Engineering research articles metadata and the funding information, retrieved from funding acknowledgments, to i...

To identify research funding patterns behind bibliometrics as a rapidly expanding science was the aim of the study presented in this paper. We analysed funding information of 8,622 bibliometric papers harvested from Web of Science, among which 1,786 (20.7%) were Papers with Reported Funding (PRFs). The trend in number of PRFs funding in last five y...

Objectives: This research article aims to analyze the bibliometric characteristics of four official International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) journals, namely: the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Methods of Information in Medicine, Applied Clinical Informatics, and Informatics for Health and Social Care. Method: We used...

In response to the digital era revolution occurring toward the end of the millennium, libraries had to change their business models in order to deliver more advanced and smart services. Meanwhile, the knowledge doubling process encountered in the last century caused the exponential increase in the number of research publications. Consequently, it i...

The past decade scientific publishing was characterized with the open-access model, unfortunately with the side effect of the appearance of so called predatory journals. These predatory journals caused a serious problem to the integrity of medical research, due to rising retraction rates, irreproducible results, and a flood of low quality publicati...

The application of bibliometrics in healthcare research should be extensive; however, at present it is still an under-researched area. In our study we used a novel bibliometric technique called bibliometric mapping to visualize the published research regarding the influence of physical activity to children's quality of life. The research was visual...

Obesity related adverse health effects have since long been recognized in adults, however it is now understood that they may have roots in early childhood. Childhood obesity is an important area of paediatric research, extending across various research fields. In order to successfully combat childhood obesity epidemics, a multi-level and multi-sect...

Obesity related adverse health effects have since long been recognized in adults, however it is now understood that they may have roots in early childhood. Childhood obesity is an important area of paediatric research, extending across various research fields. In order to successfully combat childhood obesity epidemics, a multi-level and multi-sect...

Purpose The rapid development of eHealth requires the extension of existing health informatics competences sets. These competences are needed not only by health-care professionals but also by health-care consumers. The purpose of this paper is to analyse literature production of health informatics and eHealth competences/skills (EHCS). Design/meth...

Code smells as symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. Many times they are the result of so called technical debt. Our study showed that the interest in code smells research is increasing. However, most of the publications are appearing in conference proceedings. Most of the research is done in G7 and other highly developed countries. F...

Cybernetics is many different things to many different people and thus it has been used within various scientific disciplines. The aim of the presented paper was to produce a snapshot of cybernetics information source production using bibliometric analysis. The results showed that the production of information sources has been increasing, with a si...

Code smells as symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. Many times they are the result of so called technical debt. Our study showed that the interest in code smells research is increasing. However, most of the publications are appearing in conference proceedings. Most of the research is done in G7 and other highly developed countries. F...

The use of artificial intelligence intelligencein medicine can be traced back to 1968 when Paycha published his paper Le diagnostic a l'aide d'intelligences artificielle, presentation de la premiere machine diagnostri. Few years later Shortliffe et al. presented an expert system named Mycin which was able to identify bacteria causing severe blood i...

Point systems in Games for Health: A bibliometric scoping study Peter Kokol (Submitted on 15 Feb 2018) Very few details about point systems used in games for health are reported in scientific literature. To shed some light on this topic a bibliometric study, analyzing the papers containing terms related to games for health and point systems was...

Very few details about point systems used in games for health are reported in scientific literature. To shed some light on this topic a bibliometric study, analyzing the papers containing terms related to games for health and point systems was performed and a mini taxonomy was derived. The search string game* AND health AND (point* OR score) AND sy...