Abstract
This study comprehensively summarizes research in the field of meditation, especially mindfulness meditation from 1900 to 2021, by analyzing the knowledge map through CiteSpace and VOSviewer software. Using “mindfulness *” or “meditation *” as the topic, articles included in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index were searched in the web of science core database, resulting in the selection of 19,752 articles. Over half a century ago, Deikman published the field’s first article in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease in 1963, and publications have soared in subsequent decades. The USA is in the core position in terms of global collaboration, total publication numbers, and total citations. The Mindfulness journal ranked first for the most published articles and citations. “The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being,” written by Brown and Ryan, was the most cited article. Mindfulness, meditation, depression, intervention, stress reduction, stress, and anxiety are the top co-occurrence keywords. The timeline of cluster analysis discloses that before 2010, hypertension, cancer, mindfulness, generalized anxiety disorder, and other topics received great attention. In the decade since 2010, scholars have shown interest in meta-analysis, attention, and self-assessment, and keen attention to mindfulness-based interventions. These findings provide an important foundation to direct future research.
Highlights
Meditation is comprised of a family of self-regulation practices that train attention and awareness to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control to thereby foster general mental well-being and development, and/or specific capacities such as calmness, clarity, and concentration [1]
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Summary
Meditation is comprised of a family of self-regulation practices that train attention and awareness to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control to thereby foster general mental well-being and development, and/or specific capacities such as calmness, clarity, and concentration [1]. Among the various categories of meditation, mindfulness, as “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment,” has generated increasing scholarly attention [2]. Multiple reviews and meta-analyses have analyzed and summarized the effects of meditation on behavior and brain imaging in clinical and non-clinical subjects, and have demonstrated significant physical and mental health benefits [3,4,5,6]. According to a survey conducted by the U.S National Institutes of Health, 8% of American adults practiced meditation in 2012 [7]
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