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. 2023 Feb;62(1):8-38.
doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01704-4. Epub 2023 Jan 6.

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Religion and Health: Sixty Years of Publication (1961-2021)

Lindsay B Carey  1   2   3 , Satish Kumar  4   5 , Kirti Goyal  4 , Faizan Ali  6
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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Religion and Health: Sixty Years of Publication (1961-2021)

Lindsay B Carey et al. J Relig Health. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

In 1961, the Journal of Religion and Health (JORH) commenced publishing articles that examined modern religious and spiritual philosophy in relation to psychology and health. The year 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of JORH. This research paper retrospectively analyses the journal's content. It provides insight into JORH's publication trends, citation records, prominent themes, authors' collaboration and its aggregate contribution to the field of religion and health. Over time, the number of publications, citations and downloads of JORH articles have substantially increased, as has the journals prominence and diverse contributions to the study of religion, spirituality and health.

Keywords: Bibliographic coupling; Bibliometric analysis; Co-authorship analysis; JORH; Journal of Religion and Health; Journal thematic structure.

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Conflict of interest statement

The first author, Associate Professor Lindsay Carey (La Trobe University, Melbourne and the University of Notre Dame, Sydney), is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Religion and Health and author of several cited articles as part of this review. The first author however, has only been Editor-in-Chief since 2021 and therefore had no influence over the content and themes of JORH from 1961 to 2020. The first author was also independent of the actual statistical and thematic analysis which was undertaken by the remaining co-authors who declare no conflict of interest as they had no prior affiliation with JORH or its publisher Springer Science Media. The second author, Satish Kumar has co-authored a method-based paper regarding bibliometric analysis (Donthu et al., 2021) which was used to undertake the analysis in the current paper.

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Fig. 1
JORH’s Publication Trend by Decade (1961–2021: N = 3227 articles). Refer to Table 5 for additional detail about the Editors/Chief Editors for the above time frames
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Fig. 2
JORH Author Network Collaboration. Note Authors who contributed at least five JORH publications. The thickness of the lines represents the link strength/frequency between JORH authors
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Fig. 3
The Country Network of JORH affiliated Authors. Note: Country collaboration network with a minimum threshold of five publications. The thickness of the edges represents the link strength between countries
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