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. 2022 Jun 22:13:890327.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890327. eCollection 2022.

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Association Between Compassion Fatigue and Psychological Resilience From 2008 to 2021

Li-Juan Yi  1   2 , Yi Liu  3 , Ling Tang  4 , Liang Cheng  1 , Guo-Hao Wang  5 , Su-Wen Hu  1 , Xiao-Ling Liu  6 , Xu Tian  2 , Maria F Jiménez-Herrera  2
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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Association Between Compassion Fatigue and Psychological Resilience From 2008 to 2021

Li-Juan Yi et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Aims: A negative association between the lower level of psychological resilience (PR) and increased risk of compassion fatigue (CF) and higher Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) stress has been revealed. However, bibliometric studies have not been performed to comprehensively investigate this topic. This study aimed to identify the status and trends in the CF and PR field from 2008 to 2021 and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We identified relevant literature from the Web of Science Core Collection® database using "resilience" and "compassion fatigue" on September 30, 2021. All search results were exported in plain text format for collaboration network analysis, reference-based co-citation analysis, analysis of journals, and keywords-based co-occurrence analysis, which were performed using Citespace® 5.8.R1.

Results: A total of 388 publications were identified finally, and there has been an increasing trend in the annual number of publications with light fluctuations. The analysis of journals and keywords indicated that nurses and social workers are the main research targets, and their mental problems are the main research topics. The turnover intention of health care providers has been a research focus, particularly during the COVID-19.

Conclusion: The results of the present study help us understand the status of the CF and PR field and its recent developments.

Keywords: COVID-19; Web of Science; bibliometric analysis; compassion fatigue; physiological resilience.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
The distribution of the bibliographic records per year.
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FIGURE 2
The co-occurrence network of subject categories in the field of compassion fatigue (CF) and psychological resilience (PR) during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B). A circle indicates a subject category. The various colors of nodes indicate the different years, and the size of a circle was weighted by the amount of literature on the category. The link between two nodes represents the interdisciplinary interaction of the literature, and the thickness of the lines was weighted by the relevance between different areas of research. The purple rims of circles indicate high betweenness centralities.
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FIGURE 3
The dual-map overlay of journals. Citing journals are on the left and cited journals are on the right, and the colored paths between them suggested the cited relationships.
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FIGURE 4
Institutions-countries hybrid network of publications in the field of CF and PR during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B). The individual circle indicates one country or institution, and the size of the circle was weighted by the number of articles published by countries or institutions. The link between two nodes represents partnership, and its thickness was weighted by the frequency of collaborations. The purple rims of circles indicate high betweenness centralities.
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FIGURE 5
The network of co-authorship in the field of CF and PR during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B). The individual circle indicates one author, and the size of the circle was weighted by the number of articles published by authors. The individual link between two circles indicates collaboration between two authors on the same article, and its thickness was weighted by the frequency of collaborations. The purple rims of circles indicate high betweenness centralities.
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FIGURE 6
The network visualization map of journal co-citation analysis during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B). The individual circle indicates a journal, and its size was weighted by the number of cited journals. The individual link between two circles meant co-citation relationships, and its thickness was weighted by the frequency of collaborations. The purple rims of circles indicate high betweenness centralities.
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FIGURE 7
The timeline view of research focused on CF and PR during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B). In the timeline view plot, keywords on the same horizontal line belong to the right cluster. The colors of lines and keywords are corresponding to the colors of the time slice at the top.
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FIGURE 8
The co-occurrence network of keywords during 2008–2021 (A) and the COVID-19 pandemic (B).
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