Is the Influence of Freud Declining in Psychology and Psychiatry? A Bibliometric Analysis.

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC7930904 · PMID 33679558

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a significant trendP = 0.506not close (p > 0.1)

The percentage did not show a significant trend for CPs coming from psychoanalysis (0.03 per year, P = 0.506).

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

Conclusion The study on 42,571 papers found a decreasing trend in citing Freud by psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience papers, but an increasing trend in arts humanities, literature, and business economics especially since the 2000s.

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

Results showed that citations to CPs of Freud showed an increasing trend since 1968, and after 1995 the decline was as expected.

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