Nöropsikoloji Alanında Yapılan Akademik Çalışmaların Son 20 Yılı Üzerine Bir Bibliyometrik Analiz

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis is an analysis study that examines the developments and academic studies in a field to be examined with methods such as common word analysis, citation analysis, bibliometric matching. When bibliometric analysis is applied in a very comprehensive field such as neuropsychology, it provides a good road map for researchers to determine the areas they will work in. However, when the literature on psychology and its subfields is reviewed, it is seen that the number of bibliometric analysis studies is quite low. For this reason, this study aims to analyze the last 20 years of academic studies in the field of neuropsychology. For this purpose, in the first stage of the research, articles on "neorupsychology" were searched in the WoS database, and the fields of psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, experimental psychology, behavioral sciences, developmental psychology, pediatrics, educational psychology, neuroimaging, biological psychology, social psychology, applied psychology and psychoanalytic psychology, which were considered to be most related to the field of neuropsychology, were selected. Common word analysis and social network analysis were performed on the articles containing the related words, and concept maps were created to enable visualization. Accordingly, it was observed that words such as "schizophrenia", "psychosis", "depression" lost their influence, albeit slowly, while words such as "assessment", "performance validity", "clinical neuropsychology", "rehabilitaion" increased their influence. It can be said that current studies in the field of neuropsychology have shifted away from focusing on a specific clinical condition and towards studies that include neuropsychological assessments and rehabilitation approaches.