Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research

By Kyle J. Emich, Satish Kumar, Li Lu, Kurt Norder, Nitesh Pandey. 2020

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

At its 50-year milestone, we assess the Small Group Research (SGR) corpus to reflect on the development of group research over the past half century. To do this, we examine the evolution of the corpus’s context and content. We examine its context by assessing its impact, which journals it communicates with, and the internationality of its authors. We examine its content—the topics discussed in its articles—using keyword clustering and co-occurrence network analysis. We identify 10 research communities and track their relationships over the four editorial periods associated with the SGR corpus (lagged 2 years for influence): 1970–1981, 1982–1991, 1992–2010, and 2011–2019. Our analyses indicate that the global and local study of group dynamics has fluctuated over time and that phenomenologically based topics connect theoretical topics and stimulate theoretical development. We also provide three criteria to identify communities and topics of group research most likely to benefit from future integration.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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In Social Psychology

1. Satish Kumar
2. Weng Marc Lim
3. Ilan Alon
4. Meena Chavan
5. Kerri Anne Crowne

In Statistics and Probability

1. Weng Marc Lim
2. Satish Kumar
3. Vanessa P. G. Bretas
4. Ilan Alon

Citations in the corpus

• Franchising research on emerging markets: Bibliometric and content analyses (2021, background): “Keywords are indicators of the article’s most important terms, expressing the research fields’ intellectual themes and structure (Donthu et al., 2021; Emich et al., 2020).”
• A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions (2021, background): “…and its equivalent network structure are presented in Table 8 and Figure 7, respectively, wherein scrutiny of the two visual resources can reveal the important concepts and their development and linkages in the field (Baker et al., 2021; Dana et al., 2021; Donthu et al., 2021; Emich et al., 2020).”