Bibliometric mapping of psychological flexibility research: trends and future directions

• Main Authors: Wider, Walton, Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping, Lin, Jiaming, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Jiang, Leilei, Tanucan, Jem Cloyd M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: SAGE Publications Inc. 2024
• Subjects: AI Indexes (General); HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/42042/1/2024_PMS_Psychological%20Flexibility.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/42042/7/Bibliometric%20mapping%20of%20psychological%20flexibility%20research_trends%20and%20future%20directions_ABS.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/42042/; https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125241253946; https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125241253946

In this article, we offer an exhaustive analysis of academic work on psychological flexibility using bibliometric techniques. We identify emerging trends in a dataset of 3535 scholarly articles from the Web of Science database. We highlight key publications, map out the field’s intellectual framework, and anticipate future research avenues through co-citation and co-word analytics. The co-citation assessment revealed five distinct clusters, while the co-word analysis showed three. Although research regarding psychological flexibility has gained recent popularity, there remains a need for more scholarly initiatives to achieve a nuanced understanding of this subject.