{"id":159043,"date":"2023-11-03T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=159043"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:46:02","slug":"where-is-the-research-on-human-flourishing-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/human-social\/where-is-the-research-on-human-flourishing-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Research on Human Flourishing Headed?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professors at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey <\/a>have observed a notable increase in research on human flourishing during the last 20 years, after they studied the academic papers on the subject and examined this idea, tracing its development across time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manuel Cebra<\/a>, a research professor at the School of Humanities and Education at Tec (EHE)<\/a>, Alberto Hern\u00e1ndez, also a research professor at EHE, and Enrique Tam\u00e9s<\/a>, the director of Human Flourishing Projects, collaborated on a bibliographic evaluation of the term “Human Flourishing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Cebral noted, the main goal was to use a programming library called “Bibliometrics” and closely examine the Scopus database, which is renowned for the high standard of its articles and their accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We searched for the expression ‘Human Flourishing’ to detect documents containing it in their abstracts or keywords,” says Cebral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gathering and Filtering Data<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data mining techniques were used for the study in order to extract huge quantities of information, which were then carefully filtered. The authors were able to determine the direction of research in this field and its wider influence on other areas of study by using these methodologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2022, 1,930 papers that were directly collected from the Scopus database were used in the study. These records cover more than half a century, from 1969 to 2021, and come from 1,200 academic works written by 3,312 authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collected data was then filtered to exclude entries that used only “Flourishing” instead of “Human Flourishing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information was processed using data science <\/a>with the goal of creating interactive visualizations that show the correlations between authors and keywords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n