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Journal article
Cats’ and dogs’ welfare: text mining and topics modeling analysis of the scientific literature
Frontiers in veterinary science, Vol.10, pp.1-13
12/10/2023
PMCID: PMC10601470
PMID: 37901113
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Abstract
Animal welfare is a field with increasing significance and has been raising huge concerns of the public and the political stage. Cats and dogs possess an important role in human life, but their welfare is not always secured from a legal aspect. This review aimed to describe the evolution and geographical distribution of “cats and dogs” and “puppies and kittens” welfare literature over the last 40 years, distinguish the main research topics studied and highlight gaps in knowledge. A search using Scopus® was performed with different search strings and predetermined filters as time range, language, and subject area. A total of 2,725 scientific literature records were retrieved but only the ones that referred to cats and dogs’ welfare aspects were retained. The final 1,775 records were processed through descriptive statistics, and text mining and topic analysis procedures were performed on their titles and abstracts. The results showed that the number of studies has been increasing, especially in Europe and North America. “Shelter” was the most frequent word, followed by “behavior,” “owner” and “adopt.” The nine topics that emerged from the analysis were breeding, stress and housing conditions, welfare and pain assessment, public health, shelter management and euthanasia, behavioral problems, health issues and management, human-animal interaction, and owners’ and veterinarians’ perceptions. While stress and housing conditions, public health, and owners’ and veterinarians’ perceptions were the most studied topics, human-animal interaction was the least studied. This review confirmed the increasing research and interest in cats’ and dogs’ welfare and showed gaps in knowledge where further studies are needed.
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- Title
- Cats’ and dogs’ welfare: text mining and topics modeling analysis of the scientific literature
- Creators
- Chrysa Adamaκopoulou - University of BolognaBeatrice Benedetti - University of BolognaMartina Zappaterra - University of BolognaMartina Felici - University of BolognaNaod Thomas Masebo - University of BolognaAnnalisa Previti - University of MessinaAnnamaria Passantino - University of MessinaBarbara Padalino - University of Bologna
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in veterinary science, Vol.10, pp.1-13
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Grant note
- The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was funded by the Framework partnership agreement GP/EFSA/ALPHA/2021/10, Lot 1, signed between EFSA and the authors (BP, MF, and MZ).
- Identifiers
- 991013293355302368
- Copyright
- © 2023 Adamaκopoulou, Benedetti, Zappaterra, Felici, Masebo, Previti, Passantino and Padalino. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Veterinary Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article