Sándor Soós

• PhD
• Head of Department at Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Content analysis with the use of keywords experiences a take-off period in science mapping. Within the family of co-word analyses, analyzing the keyword content is commonly preceded by computer-assisted preprocessing, which may leave substantial noise and bias in the structure of the network set up. Despite these flaws, only few articles have attem...

It has been 15 years since the introduction of the NOVA food-processing classification. While it was designed to identify ultra-processed foods linked to noncommunicable diseases, the NOVA system has a holistic concept that fits with sustainable nutrition. However, NOVA’s connection to other sustainable diet indicators has not been thoroughly explo...

In general, the presence and performance of women in science have increased significantly in recent decades. However, gender-related differences persist and remain a global phenomenon. Women make a greater contribution to multidisciplinary research, which renders anti-doping research a compelling area for investigating the gendered aspects of acade...

Background To our knowledge, no previous systematic review and meta-analysis on doping prevalence in sport from Indirect Estimation Models (IEM) exists. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis complemented with a bibliometric analysis on empirical IEM-based studies of admitted doping prevalence in sport. Methods We conducted electronic...

Children are a vulnerable group in terms of obesity: nearly 20% of Hungarian kindergarten and school-aged children are overweight or obese. School catering plays a decisive role in shaping children's nutritional behavior. To support the prevention of obesity and to increase the quality of children's diets, legislation passed in 2014 included provis...

Content analysis plays a pivotal role in the field of educational science. This paper delves into an examination of studies within the discipline that have employed a deductive approach when applying this method. Our research focus revolved around the thematic patterns present in the corresponding scientific discourse and the techniques utilized fo...

Background YouTube is one of the most widespread social media channels, which is of growing importance in science communication and health education. The validity of medical and health-related information available on YouTube cannot be assured, and videos often contain potentially misleading or inaccurate information. Communication on sport nutriti...

Children are a vulnerable group in terms of obesity, nearly 20% of Hungarian kindergarten and school-aged children are overweight or obese. School catering plays a decisive role in shaping the nutritional behavior of children. To support the prevention of obesity and to increase the quality of children’s diets, the provisions for school catering we...

Bibliometrics, via the exploitation of large-scale publication data, is a facile approach to explore gender-related trends, especially gender equality in academic publishing and authorship. For the first time, this study aims to investigate the gender-related trends in anti-doping sciences to (1) explore the relational structure of gender aspects o...

Az iskolai egészségnevelés, illetve az egészségnevelés hazai és nemzetközi szemléletének bemutatása a neveléstudomány területén részletesen feldolgozott és ismertetett, azonban az egészséges táplálkozásra nevelést mint az egészségnevelés részét még nem, vagy csak részleteiben mutatták be. A kutatás célja ezért az egészséges táplálkozásra nevelés mi...

A nemzetközi kutatásértékelésben hosszú évtizedek alatt uralkodóvá vált trend, a biblio-, illetve tudománymetriai teljesítménymérés az akadémiai szféra mellett ma már az összes kapcsolódó szféra, így a tudományos folyóiratkiadás szereplőinek életében is alapvető tényező. A szakfolyóiratok szerepe messze túlnőtt azok eredeti funkcióján: a hagyományo...

Academic research on food consumer behavior related to food safety has developed extremely rapidly in the last decades, and a sizable amount of knowledge has been accumulated in this interdisciplinary field. This information set, as big data, lends itself to bibliometric analysis. Based on the Web of Science database and on a statistical analysis o...

The contribution of food production to the environmental burden is considerable, therefore, numerous countries have been trying to create a sustainable food supply chain to ensure food and nutrition security. The scope of this study was to analyse the association between water footprint and healthiness based on dietary records. Furthermore, it was...

The exponentially growing quantity of nutrition information creates a new situation and challenge for every stakeholder, from athletes, coaches and nutritionists to policymakers. To measure the perception of the information environment related to healthy eating, the diet information overload scale was developed. The scale consists of eight items, m...

A pandemic has always been a milestone, forcing intellectuals to reassess the directions of development at their time. This fact has generated vivid debates about the possible reactions to the new situation, highlighting the vulnerability of current socio-economic structures as well as the need to reconsider the current way of development. The new...

Background: The tool kits of bibliometrics and science mapping provide a standard methodology to map the knowledge base of specific fields of science. The aim of the present research is the analysis of the recent international trends of sport nutrition science, as well as the primary identification of the research topics and results of sport nutri...

A sporttáplálkozásról szóló kommunikáció meghatározó lehet a táplálkozási magatartás megváltoztatásában sportolók körében. A táplálkozástudományi információk egyre növekvő mennyisége információkezelési kihívások elé állítja mind a szakmai közösséget, mind a sportolókat. A túl sok,, különösen a táplálkozással kapcsolatos, egymásnak ellentmondó infor...

Background : The tool kits of bibliometrics and science mapping provide a standard methodology to map the knowledge base of specific fields of science. The aim of the present research is the analysis of the recent international trends of sport nutrition science, as well as the primary identification of the research topics and results of sport nutri...

Background: The tool kits of bibliometrics and science mapping provide a standard methodology to map the knowledge base of specific fields of science. The aim of the present research is the analysis of the recent international trends of sport nutrition science, as well as the primary identification of the research topics and results of sport nutrit...

Background: The tool kits of bibliometrics and science mapping provide a standard methodology to map the knowledge base of specific fields of science. The aim of the present research is the analysis of the recent international trends of sport nutrition science, as well as the primary identification of the research topics and results of sport nutrit...

Informetrics with its frameworks and methods has long been playing a prominent role in the study of science–society communications. The aim of the present work is an exploratory study of this domain of research, via a scoping review based on enhanced bibliometric methods. The leading research questions concern the cognitive structure of the subject...

Mapping the intellectual structure and dynamics of complex, multidisciplinary domains has long been a challenging task for bibliometrics. Research subjects with outstanding social relevance are typically of this sort, being multifaceted and requiring a synthesis of various field-specific perspectives. Among such subjects, our work addresses policy-...

Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the...

This article provides an overview of national bibliographic databases that include data on research output within social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. We focus on the comprehensiveness of the database content. Compared to the data from commercial databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, data from national bibliographic databases (e.g...

Macro-level domains of the science system, usually referred to as STM and SSH disciplines, have often been contrasted from various perspectives, regarding the characteristic composition of their publication channels, referencing or communication practices, and the related consequences in research evaluation. It is also long been conjectured that so...

In second half of the 20th century the research of application of irradiation to food preservation become a new and prospective field of food science and technology. This activity has been supported and developed in a parallel way in both halves of the that-time world, divided by the iron-curtain. Under these conditions, fulfilling a specific "brid...

Trends of preferred publication channels in selected categories of Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities were studied by determining the percentage share of references in reviews to serials (journals) in all references. It was found that in the period 1995–2014, the fraction of articles published in journals was increasing in all selected...

The paper proposes a text-mining based analytical framework aiming at the cognitive organization of complex scientific discourses. The approach is based on models recently developed in science mapping, being a generalization of the so-called Science Overlay Mapping methodology, referred to as Topic Overlay Mapping (TOM). It is shown that via applic...

We present an innovative analysis of university production (publications) and effect (citations) in various scientific fields to understand how universities 'think'. The paper studies 10 European universities selected from different tiers of a university ranking and compare their cognitive strategies of growth: in particular, whether excellence, i....

The paper proposes a text-mining based analytical framework aiming at the cognitive organization of complex scientific discourses. The approach is based on science mapping models recently developed in infoscience, being a generalization of the so-called Science Overlay Mapping methodology, referred to as Topic Overlay Mapping (TOM). It is shown tha...

The informetric modeling of the cognitive structure of science is a timely research program with various applications, called science mapping. The work presented below is aiming at a novel methodology complementing a recent science map based on the Web of Science databases. We present a socalled interdisciplinarity map of science, that facilitates...

Science mapping (SM), the study of the organization and development of science and technology, is a rapidly developing field within information science. The volume of available data allows this methodology to empirically address such issues as the historical development of topics, discourses, fields or the entire science system. Based on the pool o...

This paper reports the preliminary results of a project that aims at incorporating the analysis of the web presence (content) of research institutions into the scientometric analysis of these research institutions. The problem is to understand and predict the dynamics of academic activity and resource allocation using web presence. The present pape...

Modelling actors of science via science (overlay) maps has recently become a popular practice in Interdisciplinarity Research (IDR). The benefits of this toolkit have also been recognized for other areas of scientometrics, such as the study of science dynamics. In this paper we propose novel methods of measuring knowledge diffusion/integration base...

In science mapping, bibliographic coupling (BC) has been a standard tool for discovering the cognitive structure of research areas, such as constituent subareas, directions, schools of thought, or paradigms. Modelled as a set of documents, research areas are often sorted into document clusters via BC representing a thematic unit each. In this paper...

We discuss whether and how past success matters in the making of current decisions about future investments in institutions. We present a longitudinal study for the case of Hungary, which indicates a negative answer. Using different comparisons (such as raw or nationally normalized values), and different indicators of excellence (such as productivi...

The main aim of the project reported in this paper was twofold. One of the primary goals was to produce an extensive source of network data for bibliometric analyses of field dynamics in the case of Computer and Information Science. To this end, we rendered the raw material of the DBLP computer and infoscience bibliography into a comprehensive coll...

As a novel tool for evaluating research competences of R&D actors, science overlay maps have recently been introduced in the scientometric literature, with associated measures for assessing the degree of diversification in research profiles. In this study, we continue the elaboration of this approach: based on science overlay maps (called here m-ma...

In science mapping, bibliographic coupling (BC) has been a standard tool for discovering the cognitive structure of research areas, such as constituent subareas, directions, schools of thought, or paradigms. Modelled as a set of documents, research areas are often sorted into document clusters via BC representing a thematic unit each. In this paper...

The correlation between GDP and research publications is an important issue in scientometrics. This article provides further empirical evidence connecting revealed comparative advantage in national research with effects on economic productivity. Using ...

Measuring the intellectual diversity encoded in publication records as a proxy to the degree of interdisciplinarity has recently received considerable attention in the science mapping community. The present paper draws upon the use of the Stirling index as a diversity measure applied to a network model (customized science map) of research profiles,...

We apply bio-inspired methods for the analysis of different dynamic bibliometric networks (linking papers by citation, authors, and keywords, respectively). Biological species are clusters of individuals defined by widely different criteria and in the biological perspective it is natural to (1) use different categorizations on the same entities (2)...

Measuring the intellectual diversity encoded in publication records as a proxy to the degree of interdisciplinarity has recently received considerable attention in the science mapping community. The present paper draws upon the use of the Stirling index as a diversity measure applied to a network model (customized science map) of research profiles,...

Journals covered by the 2006 Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports database have been subjected to a clustering procedure utilizing h-similarity as the underlying similarity measure. Clustering complemented with a prototyping routine provided well-conceivable results that are both compatible with and further refine existing taxonomies of...

A kutatói életpálya legmeghatározóbb szakasza a doktori fokozat megszerzését követő hat-nyolc év. Az ezen időszakot vizsgáló nemzetközi kutatások két fontos tényre hívják fel a figyelmet. Egyfelől arra, hogy az egyetemi és a kutatóintézeti munkahelyek száma lassabban nő, mint a doktorok száma, emiatt érdemes már a képzés idején diverzifikált életpá...

This paper deals with the species problem in an ALife approach. We present the problem and identify three paradigmatic species concepts that permit different operationalizations. We use the FATINT system to test and compare them in a fully embedded, agent based environment with complete information about lineages, individual phenotypes and reproduc...

Modern scientific knowledge is generated in a complex system that exhibits self- organizing properties. The produce of scientific knowledge is distributed in a process involving producers and consumers, as implemented, for example, in the nonlinear patterns of innovation. The paradigm of the "new production of knowledge" or the structures of the so...

Short abstract In recent years, applications of formal ontology have formed a research front at the intersection of biological, biomedical research and information science/technology. It’s possible,applications to and,import,for more,traditional problems,in biology,and biophilosophy, however, have been rarely addressed. The goal of the present pape...