Bibliometric Analysis of Works of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Seminar “Actual Problems of Labor Psychology, Engineering Psychology and Ergonomics” (2009–2021)

Abstract

In the article, the authors examine a perspective object of quantitative research in the history of psychology — scientific events (conferences, seminars, symposiums, etc.). The research material is the collection of scientific papers of the All-Russian scientific-practical seminar “Actual problems of labor psychology, engineering psychology and ergonomics”, which was held at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the end of 2007 and the materials of which were published in 10 volumes. Bibliometric, thematic and linguistic indicators of chronological subcorpuses of the seminar publications are determined. The conclusion is made about the active development of the research community in the psychology of work, engineering psychology and ergonomics on the basis of the seminar and the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The prospects for the use of quantitative methods in the study of the functioning of research communities based on scientific events are shown.