ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Demographic variation in self-rated physical health across 22 countries: findings from the Global Flourishing Study.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- Mapping of repeat-associated non-AUG (RAN) translation knowledge: A bibliometric analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Real-time EEG-based emotion recognition for neurohumanities: perspectives from principal component analysis and tree-based algorithms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- A text mining analysis of human flourishing on Twitter.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Visualization and Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Knowledge Mapping of Olfactory Dysfunction: A Bibliometric Study.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Human flourishing is a thriving concept, whose use has greatly increased among academic researchers from a variety of fields, from the arts and humanities and psychology to the social and environmental sciences and economics. To better understand the concept's success, this work proposes a bibliometric review, in which statistical methods and data mining were used to analyze 1829 documents, chosen from the Scopus database by searching the term "human flourishing". Through cluster and network analyses, the study shows the concept's evolution and composition, as well as its current tensions and trends, in which the predominantly psychological approach is being compensated with social concerns and the search for justice. Furthermore, the concept's strong philosophical roots provide it with abstract richness and great fertility, which can be seen in keywords, such as virtue or eudaimonia. This bibliometric review proved to be useful for this type of study, despite the limitations imposed by the characteristics of the Scopus database itself.
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