Five Decades of Scientific Development on “Attachment Theory”: Trends and Future Landscape
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Attachment
Theory is one of the most frequently used frameworks which
revolutionised the understanding of human behaviour, from early
childhood to adulthood. Attachment Theory’s scholarly output was
examined using a quantitative bibliometric approach, based on rigorous
facts extracted from the WoS databases from 1970 to 2017. Overall, 1,700
documents in the category “Psychology” with the topic “Attachment
Theory” were analysed to find trends of publications, networking
coupling, keywords frequencies, top authors, and highly cited papers. A
qualitative content analysis of the top 20 documents with the highest
average citation per year was done to provide insight on document
approaches. The results show that the scientific productivity in
“attachment theory” is highly skewed. The authors recommend publishing
attachment theory related articles in an open access journal. There is a
need for further interdisciplinary research and practice collaboration
to move beyond the sole psychological approach and realise the
importance of multi-disciplinary approaches.
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