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Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery
We performed a bibliometric analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on vividness between 1900 and 2019 indexed by the Web of Science and compared it with the same analysis of publications on consciousness and mental imagery. While we observed a similarity between the citation growth rates for publi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7016649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10010041 |
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author | Haustein, Stefanie Vellino, André D’Angiulli, Amedeo |
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description | We performed a bibliometric analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on vividness between 1900 and 2019 indexed by the Web of Science and compared it with the same analysis of publications on consciousness and mental imagery. While we observed a similarity between the citation growth rates for publications about each of these three subjects, our analysis shows that these concepts rarely overlap (co-occur) in the literature, revealing a surprising paucity of research about these concepts taken together. A disciplinary analysis shows that the field of Psychology dominates the topic of vividness, even though the total number of publications containing that term is small and the concept occurs in several other disciplines such as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The present findings suggest that without a coherent unitary framework for the use of vividness in research, important opportunities for advancing the field might be missed. In contrast, we suggest that an evidence-based framework (such as the bibliometric analytic methods as exemplified here) will help to guide research from all disciplines that are concerned with vividness and help to resolve the challenge of epistemic incommensurability amongst published research in multidisciplinary fields. |
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spelling | pubmed-70166492020-03-04 Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery Haustein, Stefanie Vellino, André D’Angiulli, Amedeo Brain Sci Perspective We performed a bibliometric analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on vividness between 1900 and 2019 indexed by the Web of Science and compared it with the same analysis of publications on consciousness and mental imagery. While we observed a similarity between the citation growth rates for publications about each of these three subjects, our analysis shows that these concepts rarely overlap (co-occur) in the literature, revealing a surprising paucity of research about these concepts taken together. A disciplinary analysis shows that the field of Psychology dominates the topic of vividness, even though the total number of publications containing that term is small and the concept occurs in several other disciplines such as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The present findings suggest that without a coherent unitary framework for the use of vividness in research, important opportunities for advancing the field might be missed. In contrast, we suggest that an evidence-based framework (such as the bibliometric analytic methods as exemplified here) will help to guide research from all disciplines that are concerned with vividness and help to resolve the challenge of epistemic incommensurability amongst published research in multidisciplinary fields. MDPI 2020-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7016649/ /pubmed/31936760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10010041 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Haustein, Stefanie Vellino, André D’Angiulli, Amedeo Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title | Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title_full | Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title_fullStr | Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title_full_unstemmed | Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title_short | Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Vividness and Its Links with Consciousness and Mental Imagery |
title_sort | insights from a bibliometric analysis of vividness and its links with consciousness and mental imagery |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7016649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936760 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10010041 |
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