Quantitative Analysis of the Publications of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Scientific Direction of Psychology of Morality in 2002–2021. Part I. Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

In the article the authors turn to the study of the development of the scientific field of psychology of morality at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002–2021. The Institute's publications on the psychology of morality (monographs and collections of scientific works, a total of 20 books) were used as research material. It describes the corpus of the analyzed publications, bibliometric indicators that determine the characteristics of the formation of a scientific direction in a research center. The first part of the article considers the indicators of the dynamics of the number and volume of publications, frequency of authors, frequency of word combinations, and keywords. It is determined that the scientific direction of psychology of morality was actively developed at the Institute of Psychology (especially in 2007–2011 and 2012–2016), the merged research community was narrow and consisted mainly of employees of the Institute. The substantive characteristics of moral-psychological research were an appeal to the moral aspects of economic activity, moral problems and the state of modern Russian society, spiritual and moral education and personal development. A conclusion is made about the main trajectory of development of the direction of moral psychology at the Institute of Psychology.