A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research Pattern on Psychological Well-Being
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v13n2-3.1908Keywords:
psychological well-being, bibliometric analysis, Scopus database, VOS viewer, publication output, co-authorships, affiliated countries and co-occurrences of author keywordsAbstract
This paper reports an analysis of publications of scholars around the world in psychological well-being in the subject area of psychology. The study uses a bibliometric approach that explores patterns in global psychological well-being research, published from 1962 to 2018. The research patterns are focused on outputs of publications, co-authorships among authors and affiliated countries as well as co-occurrences of author keywords. 928 bibliographic records were retrieved from Scopus database. The findings illustrate global researchers have significantly enhanced their impact, particularly since the period of 2007 onwards. 63% of the total global publications is published by scholars from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, followed by the other 63 countries/territories. Besides, top 10 productive universities were from the first three leading countries and nine of it were amongst the top 100 universities in the world. This study indicates that global scholars have made significant contributions to global psychological well-being study.
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