Carollo Alessandro, Stanzione Alfonso Maria, Fong Seraphina, Gabrieli Giulio, Lee Albert, Esposito Gianluca
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Front Psychol. 2023 Sep 15;14:1140298. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1140298. eCollection 2023.
People represent the world in terms of two constructs: how something appears on the surface (appearance) and what it is underneath that surface (reality). Both constructs are central to various bodies of literature. What has not been done, however, is a systematic look at this collection of literature for overarching themes. Motivated by this research gap, the present scientometric review aimed to identify the common themes that penetrate through a century of scholarly work on appearance and reality. In doing so, this review also sketched a scientometric outline of the international network, pinpointing where the work was carried out.
With CiteSpace software, we computed an optimized document co-citation analysis with a sample of 4,771 documents (1929-2022), resulting in a network of 1,785 nodes.
We identified impactful publications, summarized major intellectual movements, and identified five thematic clusters ("Perception of Counseling Services", "Appearance and Reality in Sociocultural Evolution," "Cultural Heritage and Identity," "Media and Culture," and "Cultural Identity"), all with theoretical and pragmatic implications which we discuss. A deeper look at these clusters reveals new empirical questions and promising directions for future research.
人们通过两种概念来认识世界：事物表面呈现的样子（表象）以及表象之下的本质（现实）。这两种概念在各类文献中都至关重要。然而，尚未有人对这一系列文献进行系统的审视以找出其总体主题。受这一研究空白的推动，本次科学计量学综述旨在识别贯穿一个世纪有关表象与现实的学术研究的共同主题。在此过程中，本综述还勾勒出了国际网络的科学计量学轮廓，明确了研究工作的开展地点。
我们使用CiteSpace软件，对4771篇文献（1929 - 2022年）的样本进行了优化的文献共被引分析，得到了一个包含1785个节点的网络。
我们识别出了有影响力的出版物，总结了主要的学术思潮，并确定了五个主题集群（“咨询服务的认知”、“社会文化演变中的表象与现实”、“文化遗产与身份认同”、“媒体与文化”以及“文化身份”），所有这些集群都具有我们将讨论的理论和实践意义。对这些集群的深入研究揭示了新的实证问题以及未来研究的有前景的方向。
