Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy; Mobile and Social Computing Lab, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy.
Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Oct;117:104031. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104031. Epub 2021 Jul 29.
Developmental disabilities have been largely studied in the past years. Their etiological mechanisms have been underpinned to the interactions between genetic and environmental factors. These factors show variability across the world. Thus, it is important to understand where the set of knowledge obtained on developmental disabilities originates from and whether it is generalizable to low- and middle-income countries.
This study aims to understand the origins of the available literature on developmental disabilities, keeping a focus on parenting, and identify the main trend of research.
A sample of 11,315 publications from 1936 to 2020 were collected from Scopus and a graphical country analysis was conducted. Furthermore, a qualitative approach enabled the clustering of references by keywords into four main areas: "Expression of the disorder", "Physiological Factors", "How it is studied" and "Environmental factors". For each area, a document co-citation analysis (DCA) on CiteSpace software was performed.
Results highlight the leading role of North America in the study of developmental disabilities. Trends in the literature and the documents' scientific relevance are discussed in details.
Results demand for investigation in different socio-economical settings to generalize our knowledge. What this paper adds? The current paper tries to provide insight into the origins of the literature on developmental disabilities with a focus on parenting, together with an analysis of the trends of research in the field. The paper consisted of a multi-disciplinary and multi-method review. In fact, the review tried to integrate the analysis of the relation between developmental disabilities with a closer look at the scientific contributions to the field across the world. Specifically, the paper integrates a total of 11,315 papers published on almost a century of research (from 1936 to 2020). An initial qualitative analysis on keywords was combined to a subsequent quantitative approach in order to maximize the comprehension of the impact of almost a century of scientific contributions. Specifically, documents were studied with temporal and structural metrics on a scientometric approach. This allowed the exploration of patterns within the literature available on Scopus in a quantitative way. This method not only assessed the importance of single documents within the network. As a matter of fact, the document co-citation analysis used on CiteSpace software provided insight into the relations existing between multiple documents in the field of research. As a result, the leading role of North America in the literature of developmental disabilities and parenting emerged. This was accompanied by the review of the main trends of research within the existing literature.
过去多年来，人们对发育障碍进行了大量研究。其病因机制归因于遗传和环境因素的相互作用。这些因素在全球范围内存在差异。因此，了解发育障碍相关知识的来源以及其是否可推广到中低收入国家非常重要。
本研究旨在了解发育障碍相关文献的来源，重点关注养育，并确定主要研究趋势。
从 Scopus 数据库中收集了 1936 年至 2020 年的 11315 篇出版物样本，并进行了图形国家分析。此外，采用定性方法根据关键词对参考文献进行聚类，分为四个主要领域：“疾病表达”、“生理因素”、“研究方法”和“环境因素”。对于每个领域，在 CiteSpace 软件上进行了文献共被引分析（DCA）。
结果突出了北美在发育障碍研究中的主导地位。详细讨论了文献趋势和文献的科学相关性。
结果要求在不同的社会经济环境中进行调查，以推广我们的知识。本文的贡献是什么？本文试图提供对发育障碍文献起源的深入了解，重点关注养育，并分析该领域的研究趋势。本文采用了多学科和多方法的综述。实际上，该综述试图将发育障碍的分析与更深入地研究全球范围内该领域的科学贡献相结合。具体来说，本文整合了近一个世纪（1936 年至 2020 年）的 11315 篇论文。对关键词进行初步的定性分析后，结合后续的定量方法，以最大限度地理解近一个世纪的科学贡献。具体来说，本文采用科学计量学方法对文献进行时间和结构指标研究。这使得可以以定量方式探索 Scopus 上可用文献中的模式。该方法不仅评估了网络中单个文档的重要性。实际上，CiteSpace 软件上使用的文档共被引分析提供了对研究领域中多个文档之间关系的深入了解。结果表明，北美在发育障碍和养育文献中占据主导地位。这伴随着对现有文献中主要研究趋势的回顾。
