COVID-19心理研究之文獻計量分析

A Bibliometric Analysis of Psychological Research on COVID-19

COVID-19大流行對於人們心理健康的影響深遠，相關心理研究文獻日益增多。本研究目的為了解COVID-19心理研究文獻發展趨勢、知識合作及交流情形，聚焦於科學合作、研究熱點及研究知識基礎。以文獻計量分析方法，使用Web of Science資料庫，共蒐集8,235篇論文資料，並以VOSviewer書目軟體作為分析工具，將文獻資料可視化。結果發現：一、從科學合作關係而言，國家排名以美國的影響力最大，包括發文量、引用次數、與其他國家連結及總連結強度，皆排名第一，美國史丹佛大學與其他研究機構總連結強度最強，共現作者Mark Griffiths的發文量最多，Handan Akkas與最多的作者合作；二、研究熱點以「COVID-19大流行及公共衛生」、「焦慮與憂鬱」、「情緒調節與因應」、「樣本特徵與介入策略」及「量表編製與測驗」等關鍵詞主題集群，為研究者所關注的焦點；三、COVID-19心理研究的知識基礎，涵蓋「COVID-19心理研究」、「心理量表工具」、「SARS相關研究」及「統計應用」四大類型。基於研究結果，本研究提出COVID-19心理研究啟示，以國際合作制定心理健康的短期及長期策略，並善用心理量表工具，以了解並因應不同群體的心理需求，作為維護心理健康的共同目標；至終，共享COVID-19心理研究學術成果，為COVID-19心理研究帶來更多問題解決的契機。

The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on people’s mental health, and psychological research on COVID-19 has been growing exponentially. Therefore, this study aims to understand the development trends, research collaboration, and knowledge exchange of psychological research on COVID-19, and focuses on scientific collaboration, hotspots, and the knowledge base. A total of 8,235 documents were collected from the Web of Science database. VOSviewer was used to conduct the descriptive and bibliometric analysis. The results show that the U.S.A. is the most productive country, with the most citations, the most links with other countries, and the strongest total link strength with other countries. Stanford University in the U.S.A. has the strongest total link strength with other research institutions. Mark Griffiths has the most co-author publications with other authors, and Handan Akkas has collaborated with the most authors. According to the analysis of keywords, research hotspots are categorized into five clusters as follows: “COVID-19 pandemic and public health”, “anxiety and depression”, “emotional regulation and coping”, “sample characteristics and interventions”, and “scale development and investigation”. The knowledge base of COVID-19 psychological research covers four major domains as follows: “COVID-19 psychological research”, “mental scales”, “SARS related research”, and “statistical applications”. Accordingly, this study proposes enlightenment in psychological research on COVID-19 that international cooperation can develop short-term and long-term strategies for mental health, and make good use of mental scales to understand and respond to maintain mental health. Ultimately, sharing the research results will bring more opportunities to solve problems for COVID-19 psychological research.