The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing

Manuel Cebral-Loureda, Enrique Tamés-Muñoz and Alberto Hernández-Baqueiro
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Manuel Cebral-Loureda: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Humanistic Studies, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
Enrique Tamés-Muñoz: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Human Flourishing Projects, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
Alberto Hernández-Baqueiro: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Humanistic Studies, Ciudad de México 14380, Mexico

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Human flourishing is a thriving concept, whose use has greatly increased among academic researchers from a variety of fields, from the arts and humanities and psychology to the social and environmental sciences and economics. To better understand the concept’s success, this work proposes a bibliometric review, in which statistical methods and data mining were used to analyze 1829 documents, chosen from the Scopus database by searching the term “human flourishing”. Through cluster and network analyses, the study shows the concept’s evolution and composition, as well as its current tensions and trends, in which the predominantly psychological approach is being compensated with social concerns and the search for justice. Furthermore, the concept’s strong philosophical roots provide it with abstract richness and great fertility, which can be seen in keywords, such as virtue or eudaimonia. This bibliometric review proved to be useful for this type of study, despite the limitations imposed by the characteristics of the Scopus database itself.

Keywords: human flourishing; bibliometrics; Scopus; data mining; cluster analysis; network analysis; virtue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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