At its 50-year milestone, we assess the Small Group Research (SGR) corpus to reflect on the development of group research over the past half century. To do this, we examine the evolution of the corpus’s context and content. We examine its context by assessing its impact, which journals it communicates with, and the internationality of its authors. We examine its content—the topics discussed in its articles—using keyword clustering and co-occurrence network analysis. We identify 10 research communities and track their relationships over the four editorial periods associated with the SGR corpus (lagged 2 years for influence): 1970–1981, 1982–1991, 1992–2010, and 2011–2019. Our analyses indicate that the global and local study of group dynamics has fluctuated over time and that phenomenologically based topics connect theoretical topics and stimulate theoretical development. We also provide three criteria to identify communities and topics of group research most likely to benefit from future integration.

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通过小组研究绘制 50 年小组研究图

在其 50 年里程碑之际，我们评估了小组研究 (SGR) 语料库，以反思过去半个世纪以来小组研究的发展。为此，我们检查了语料库的上下文和内容的演变。我们通过评估其影响、与哪些期刊进行交流以及作者的国际性来检查其背景。我们使用关键字聚类和共现网络分析检查其内容——其文章中讨论的主题。我们确定了 10 个研究社区，并在与 SGR 语料库相关的四个编辑时期（影响滞后 2 年）跟踪它们的关系：1970-1981、1982-1991、1992-2010 和 2011-2019。我们的分析表明，群体动力学的全球和局部研究随着时间的推移而波动，基于现象学的主题连接理论主题并刺激理论发展。我们还提供了三个标准来确定最有可能从未来整合中受益的群体研究的社区和主题。