RT journal article
T1 La investigación sobre la inteligencia emocional en los últimos 20 años (2001-2021)Un estudio bibliométrico
A1 Paramio Leiva, Alberto
A1 Romero Moreno, Antonio Francisco
A1 González del Pino, Carlos Antonio
A2 Psicología
K1 emotional ntelligence
K1 bibliometric study
K1 evolution
K1 web of science
K1 mapping analysis
AB Objective: This article reports the first science mapping analysis of the emotional intelligence research’s themes, which shows its conceptual structure and scientific evolution. Methods: Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool, a bibliometric science mapping tool based on co-word analysis was applied using a sample of 8.884 research documents published from 2001 to 2021 in the journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports of the Web of Science. Results: Published research in emotional intelligence concentrated in the following main themes: personality, academic and job performance, life satisfaction, stress and social cognition. These themes become more diversified through years. Adolescents and students were the main samples over the emotional intelligence were studied. Conclusions. The main research themes in emotional intelligence have been changing steadily over time in terms of importance and number of publications. This encourages us to maintain a positive view of the development of research field in emotional intelligence and call to monitoring by using meta-research techniques such as the present bibliometric study
PB Universidad de Almería: Editorial Universidad de Almería (edual)
SN 2695-723X
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36080
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36080
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026