Abstract (and general evaluation comments)
to be filled at theend of the course
Foreword
The following paragraphs are the results of the workshop "HOW TO SEARCH (AND TO FIND)YOUR SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES
AND TO REALIZE A BIBLIOGRAPHY", the main activity developed in the Module 3 "
Digital (Scientific) Literature, Bibliographies and Bibliometrics" of the course
055402 - COMPLEMENTARY DOCTORAL SKILLS (prof. E.De Angelis - prof. P.Biscari) of the PhD School, in 2019/20 (see here for the
official syllabus page).
This module aims to introduce the PhD Students to the use of Digital Scientific Literature and to train them in performing a systematic search in the many clusters available, analyzing its results on a quantitative basis and organize a bibliographical database.
The students are required (and will be evaluated on this basis) to:
- set their digital identities as researchers
- acquire the available tools for searching existing references about their Research question
- Start a deep understanding of their research field and their research topic,
- set up a literature reviews.
Literature reviews
IR Photovoltaic Technologies (Marangi Fabio - PhD-PHYS)
The objective of the workshop is to assess the effectiveness of the use of keywords and of their combinations in the research of papers related to the field of interest. On all the platforms considered for the research of the papers, the use of just one of the keywords (“hot-electron”) leads to a huge number of results. The papers can be divided into very specific papers, basic studies papers and more generic ones.
The number of results can be significantly reduced by combining more keywords. The use of two keywords (“hot-electron” AND “extraction”) decreases the number of output papers in WOS to 145. The mixing of the keywords excludes the papers referring to basic studies (mostly physical phenomena) and generic papers on the existence of hot-electrons in a number of materials.
Knowing various materials in which it is possible to identify this type of electrons and not being, in this case, interested in the physical processes that lead to their formation it is possible to restrict the research again in the class of materials in which I am interested by adding a new keyword (“hot-electron” AND “extraction” AND "semiconductor”) . This reduces the number of papers to a third (54).
The last step corresponds to focusing the research on the class of materials able to harvest the part of solar spectrum of interest for the final application (“hot-electron” AND “extraction” AND "semiconductor” AND “infrared”) . This results in a small number of relevant papers (6). Starting from those, it is possible to expand the research by taking into account their bibliographies.
The other tools for literature research, namely Scopus, Semantic Scholar and Google scholar have the same trend in the reduction of the number of papers, but starting from a greater amount of them.
Literature review on in vitro models of developing bone and related diseases (Maria Vittoria Colombo - PhDBio)
In vitro bone models are used in tissue engineering to study the physiology of tissue microenvironment and more in detail to replicate specific bone pathologies as cancer metastasis. With the aim of delineating mechanisms involved in the development of these diseases, numerous studies have been carried out to identify the triggers of bone invasion by cancer cells. One of the major limitations of these studies is the lack of models of bone-cancer that can strictly mimic all the biological processes occurring in vivo, not allowing a correct understanding of the pathology. The aim of this review is to summarize the status of advanced 3D in vitro models excluding two dimensional cultures and in vivo animal models.
Starting from Web of Science (WOS), two different searches were combined: “in vitro model” and “bone”, founding 1440 papers. Then, the main 10 categories interested in “in vitro bone models” were identified and selected for the research field as cell biology, oncology and cell tissue engineering (379 papers). Hence, the research was restricted from the papers of the last 5 years (2015-2020) to see the more trending topics as which type of materials to develop the model or for which application are used, like study of a particular pathology (115 papers). Among these last list of 115 papers, one review (Owen, R. & Reilly, G. C. In vitro Models of Bone Remodelling and Associated Disorders. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 6, (2018)) appeared to be very interesting for the scope of this current paper, discarding the previous search that was not too focused to the aim of the review. Starting from its references (n=185), more papers were added to the list adding more specific WOS searches. In detail, the string TOPIC: (”bone model” AND (”sarcoma” OR ”tumor” OR ”cancer” OR ”developing” OR ”remodelling”)) was searched, allowing to add 58 more papers to the list. As done for the previous search, topic (fig. 1) and categories (figure 2) were analyzed.