Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995

Autor/inn/en	Wieczorek, Oliver; Unger, Saïd; Riebling, Jan; Erhard, Lukas; Koß, Christian; Heiberger, Raphael
Titel	Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2021) 12, S.9699-9731 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-021-04069-9
Schlagwörter	Psychology; Natural language processing; Structural topic model; Science of science
Abstract	Abstract We map the topic structure of psychology utilizing a sample of over 500,000 abstracts of research articles and conference proceedings spanning two decades (1995–2015). To do so, we apply structural topic models to examine three research questions: (i) What are the discipline’s most prevalent research topics? (ii) How did the scientific discourse in psychology change over the last decades, especially since the advent of neurosciences? (iii) And was this change carried by high impact (HI) or less prestigious journals? Our results reveal that topics related to natural sciences are trending, while their ’counterparts’ leaning to humanities are declining in popularity. Those trends are even more pronounced in the leading outlets of the field. Furthermore, our findings indicate a continued interest in methodological topics accompanied by the ascent of neurosciences and related methods and technologies (e.g. fMRI’s). At the same time, other established approaches (e.g. psychoanalysis) become less popular and indicate a relative decline of topics related to the social sciences and the humanities.
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Update	2023/2/05