Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research

Author(s)Emich, Kyle J.
Author(s)Kumar, Satish
Author(s)Lu, Li
Author(s)Norder, Kurt
Author(s)Pandey, Nitesh
Date Accessioned2023-08-25T19:15:16Z
Date Available2023-08-25T19:15:16Z
Publication Date2020-07-13
DescriptionThis is the Accepted Manuscript version of Emich, K. J., Kumar, S., Lu, L., Norder, K., & Pandey, N. (2020). Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research. Small Group Research, 51(6), 659–699. https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420934541. This article was originally published in Small Group Research. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420934541. © The Author(s) 2020.
AbstractAt 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.
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CitationEmich, K. J., Kumar, S., Lu, L., Norder, K., & Pandey, N. (2020). Mapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research. Small Group Research, 51(6), 659–699. https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420934541
ISSN1552-8278
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33275
Languageen_US
PublisherSmall Group Research
Keywordsgroup
Keywordsteam
Keywordsreview
Keywordscontent analysis
TitleMapping 50 Years of Small Group Research Through Small Group Research
TypeArticle
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