Purpose

The paper aims to clarify the importance of the psychological processing of contextual cues in the mining of individual attention resources. In recent years, the research of more open spatial perspective, such as spatial and scene perception, has gradually turned to the recognition of contextual cues, accumulating rich literature and becoming a hotspot of interdisciplinary research. Nevertheless, besides the fields of psychology and neuroscience, researchers in other fields lack systematic knowledge of contextual cues. The purpose of this study is to expand the research field of contextual cues.

Design/methodology/approach

We retrieved 494 papers on contextual cues from SCI/SSCI core database of the Web of Science in 1992–2019. Then, we used several bibliometric and sophisticated network analysis tools, such as HistCite, CiteSpace, VOSviewe and Pajek, to identify the time-and-space knowledge map, research hotspots, evolution process, emerging trends and primary path of contextual cues.

Findings

The paper found the core scholars, major journals, research institutions, and the popularity of citation to be closely related to the research of contextual cues. In addition, we constructed a co-word network of contextual cues, confirming the concept of behavior implementation intentions and filling in the research gap in the field of behavior science. Then, the quantitative analysis of the burst literature on contextual cues revealed that the research on it that focused more on multi-objective cues. Furthermore, an analysis of the main path helped researchers clearly understand and grasp in the development trend and evolution track of contextual cues.

Originality/value

Given academic research usually lags behind management practice, our systematic review of the literature to a certain extent make a bridge between theory and practice.

中文翻译：

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研究上下文线索的主题和新兴趋势：文献计量学和可视化方法

目的

本文旨在阐明情境线索的心理加工在个体注意力资源挖掘中的重要性。近年来，空间和场景感知等更加开放的空间视角的研究逐渐转向对语境线索的识别，积累了丰富的文献，成为跨学科研究的热点。然而，除了心理学和神经科学领域，其他领域的研究人员缺乏对上下文线索的系统知识。本研究的目的是扩大语境线索的研究领域。

设计/方法/方法

1992-2019 年，我们从 Web of Science 的 SCI/SSCI 核心数据库中检索了 494 篇关于上下文线索的论文。然后，我们使用了几种文献计量和复杂的网络分析工具，如 HistCite、CiteSpace、VOSviewe 和 Pajek，来识别时空知识图谱、研究热点、演化过程、新兴趋势和上下文线索的主要路径。

发现

论文发现核心学者、主要期刊、研究机构和引文的流行程度与语境线索的研究密切相关。此外，我们构建了上下文线索的共词网络，确认了行为实施意图的概念，填补了行为科学领域的研究空白。然后，对上下文线索突发文献的定量分析表明，对其的研究更多地集中在多目标线索上。此外，对主要路径的分析有助于研究人员清楚地了解和掌握语境线索的发展趋势和演变轨迹。

原创性/价值

鉴于学术研究通常滞后于管理实践，我们对文献的系统回顾在一定程度上架起了理论与实践之间的桥梁。