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In this study, we explore a 100 years of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP). To do this, we carry out a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA) to understand the evolution structure and the most important themes in the field of study. To perform the BNPA, 8,966 documents published since 1919 were exported from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The SciMAT software was used to process data and to create the evolution structure, the strategic diagram, and the thematic network structure of the strategic themes of the field of WOP. We identified 29 strategic clusters and discuss the most important themes (motor themes) and their relationship with other clusters. This research presents the complete evolution of the field of study, identifying emerging themes and others with a high degree of development. We hope that this work will support researchers and future research in the field of WOP. © Copyright © 2020 Sott, Bender, Furstenau, Machado, Cobo and Bragazzi.

The literature reports different benefits of people’s relationship with nature. However, for the field of psychology the evidence is partial and not integrated. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to understand the psychological benefits of people’s relationship with nature from a systemic review of empirical articles indexed in the Wos, Scopus and Scielo database, between the years 2015 and 2020. We used the PRISMA model for the search, identification and suitability of the articles, which were analyzed in their bibliometric characteristics and thematic content. The main bibliometric findings show that articles produced in the United Kingdom and the United States predominate, conducted in urban natural environments using quantitative methodologies with the use of surveys and physiological measurements. Thematically, we distinguish five dimensions of psychological benefits: Restoration of attention, restoration and/or reduction of stress, psychological well-being, mental health and psychosocial benefits. We argue that these benefits are articulated by an activity that mediates people’s relationship with nature. We conclude by pointing out the relevance of future research in the Latin American context, the integration of mediating activities and the use of qualitative methodologies.

The objective of this article was to carry out a bibliometric analysis, in the period 2015 – 2019, of the scientific production in Colombian psychology indexed in Scopus. The data from Latin American countries was collected through the Scimago Journal & Country Rank. The main variables analyzed were the total number of documents and citations and the percentage of international collaboration; data belonging to Colombian journals in the area of psychology indexed in Scopus also were taken into account. Colombia presents the highest percentage of growth in scientific production during the analyzed period; however, its total contribution of production in the region is much smaller than countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Likewise, it was evidenced that Colombia is the second Latin American country with the greatest number of psychology magazines in Scopus, with a total of ten magazines but is the fourth country in number of documents.

More than half of a century has passed since a paradigmatic change in the scientific endeavour took place: from science that advanced through the discursive interchange of geographically dispersed research findings and reflections, to highly interconnected and collaborative efforts that transcend borders (Wagner & Leydesdorff, 2005, Research Policy, 34:1608–1618). These new “invisible colleges” have been recognized since the end of the twentieth century as the network structures that emerge from co-authorships in scientific publications. These network structures that also inspire further production of knowledge, diffusion of concepts, methodologies and theories, circulation of scientific metaphors, and, above all, knowledge transfer, transformation, and appropriation. The expected impact of scientific collaboration on the consolidation of national capabilities for producing and absorbing scientific knowledge has resulted in the implementation of diverse instruments that aim at encouraging collaboration, particularly among peers from different countries. Psychology has also seen this increased international collaboration, and to evaluate its impact, we used bibliometric techniques on Latin American articles published between 2016 and 2020 in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) under the subject categories related to psychology, to explore the characteristics and conditions of scientific collaboration in this corpus.

This study aims to carry out an analysis of the scientific collaboration networks that are organized from the development of historiographical research in psychology in Latin America. For this purpose, the empirical corpus is the academic production of researchers who are members of the Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em História da Psicología (RIPeHP) [Iberoamerican Network of Researchers in Psychology History]. Bibliometric tools are used to map the networks and establish indicators of scientific collaboration. Specifically, co-authorship analysis is used to identify the visible and hidden academic communities that are formed from the dynamics of historiographical research in the region. The creation of the Network was made possible in part by the initiative of researchers from the history working group of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP). This year the SIP celebrates seventy years of history since its creation in 1951. In the case of this study, we present information relevant to historiographical research and discuss the role of the SIP in promoting and contributing to the strengthening of the history of Latin American psychology.