2023.09 68-1 A Bibliometric Analysis on Main Topics of Trauma Psychology during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The global outbreak of Covid-19 has caused significant changes in people's lives, resulting in deaths, loss of family and friends, increased personal insecurity, and forced career changes or interruptions. These changes affect people in different ways, directly and indirectly, and can even cause traumatic stress in the aftermath of an epidemiological disaster. However, researchers and practitioners have a limited understanding of these new forms of traumatic events. Therefore, this study used a bibliometric approach to systematically analyze the latest global research related to trauma psychology during the time period of Covid-19, and through an understanding of the relevant topics and trends in scientific research. Researchers and practitioners in related fields in Taiwan can keep up with the international community. In this study, 1,300 articles in trauma psychology published during the 18 months following the outbreak of the 2019 epidemic were analyzed based on the Scopus academic database. The results showed that Frontiers in Psychology had the highest number of publications, with 217 articles. Second, Eastern and Western countries differ in terms of authorship. Chinese- and US-based scholars published separately, forming two major groups of publications. Third, the keyword analysis revealed four main axes: various mental
health issues widely discussed during the epidemic", "the impact and study of different ethnic groups during the epidemic", "adaptation and resilience during the epidemic", and "complications and parent-child relationship during the epidemic".
Keywords
Bibliometric study, Covid-19, mental health, trauma psychology
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