Rodriguez Novo Natalia, Novo Muñoz Maria Mercedes, Cuellar-Pompa Leticia, Rodriguez Gomez Jose Angel
Departamento de Enfermeria, Universidad de la Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación en Cuidados del Colegio Oficial de Enfermeros de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 19;12:752026. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752026. eCollection 2021.
Despite the increase in international research in art therapy, few studies have been developed with a bibliometric approach which describe the situation regarding this area of knowledge. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe and contextualize international scientific production in the visual arts modality in the context of artistic therapies, to offer a broader and more in-depth vision of the structure of this area of knowledge through of a bibliometric analysis of the publications indexed in the core collection of the Web of Science. This is a retrospective, exploratory and descriptive, cross-sectional study to analyze the bibliographic data retrieved from the databases of the core collection. The analysis parameters included the data corresponding to the production according to type of document, country, journal, and institution. In addition, the main lines of research were located and classified and the subject matter of the most cited articles in each of them was summarized. Four periods were selected, between 1994 and 2020, to facilitate the thematic analysis and offer an evolutionary perspective of art therapy research. A total of 563 works were published, in 250 journals, in the 63 years between 1958, when the first document was published, and April 2021. The annual growth rate was 7.3% with a mean average of 8.7 publications per year, and 83.13% of the published works were articles. A total of 1,269 authors from 56 countries were counted. The mean number of citations per document was 5.6 and the mean number of citations per document and year was 0.6. The main research domains were psychology and/or rehabilitation and the highest production on this topic was concentrated in only three journals. In general, a high degree of variability was observed in the study topics and numerous theoretical and methodological articles. The most used visual arts modalities were in the main drawing, painting and photography. This work did not find previous existence of any bibliometric analysis on the international scientific production in art therapy. In general terms, there has been a substantial growth in the number of publications on the subject over the last decade. However, this research area does not appear to have peaked, but, on the contrary, is still growing and progressing despite its long history in clinical practice.
尽管国际上对艺术治疗的研究有所增加，但很少有研究采用文献计量学方法来描述这一知识领域的情况。因此，本研究的目的是在艺术治疗的背景下，描述和梳理视觉艺术形式的国际科学成果，并通过对科学网核心合集中索引的出版物进行文献计量分析，对这一知识领域的结构提供更广泛、更深入的见解。这是一项回顾性、探索性和描述性的横断面研究，旨在分析从核心合集数据库中检索到的文献数据。分析参数包括根据文献类型、国家、期刊和机构对应的产出数据。此外，还对主要研究方向进行了定位和分类，并总结了其中每一个方向中被引用最多的文章的主题。选取了1994年至2020年的四个时间段，以方便进行主题分析，并提供艺术治疗研究的发展视角。从1958年第一篇文献发表到2021年4月的63年间，共有563篇作品发表在250种期刊上。年增长率为7.3%，平均每年发表8.7篇，发表的作品中有83.13%是文章。共统计了来自56个国家的1269位作者。每篇文献的平均被引次数为5.6次，每篇文献每年的平均被引次数为0.6次。主要研究领域是心理学和/或康复，关于这一主题的最高产出集中在仅三种期刊上。总体而言，研究主题存在高度变异性，且有大量理论和方法学文章。最常用的视觉艺术形式主要是绘画、油画和摄影。这项研究未发现此前存在任何关于艺术治疗国际科学成果的文献计量分析。总体而言，在过去十年中，关于该主题出版物的数量有了大幅增长。然而，这一研究领域似乎尚未达到顶峰，相反，尽管其在临床实践中有悠久的历史，但仍在不断发展和进步。
