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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Environmental Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1520937
The Landscape of Climate Psychology: Bibliometric Analyses of Critical Psychology and Climate Justice Perspectives
Provisionally accepted- University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The psychology of climate change has become a critical area of research, exploring the intersection between human behavior, psychological well-being, and environmental sustainability. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis to explore the interdisciplinary field of psychology and climate change, covering research from 01 January 1995 to 15 August 2024. Using 3087 academic publications from the Web of Science and employing VOSviewer and BiblioMatrix for network analysis, we dissect the evolution, key contributors, and central themes within this domain. Our analysis identifies leading authors, institutions, and nations, alongside the collaboration networks underlying the field's growth. Thematic clustering of these networks highlights dominant topics such as pro-environmental behavior, sustainability, mental health, eco-anxiety, and risk perception. We utilize visual mappings of co-authorship and bibliographic relationships to illustrate the dynamic interaction among researchers and their topics. By inclosing our findings within climate justice and critical psychology, we advocate for a research paradigm that challenges systemic barriers to climate justice, emphasizing the necessity for equitable and action-oriented psychological research to guide climate-related policy and public engagement.
Keywords: bibliometric analysis, Climate psychology, Critical psychology, Climate justice, Eco-anxiety, Research Equity, Mental Health and Climate Change
Received: 31 Oct 2024; Accepted: 14 Jan 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Gulnaz Anjum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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