The corpus
Search 9,388 hand-coded papers across 167 constructs. Expand with the recent and all-years corpus tiers below; machine matches and live records are separately badged for verification.
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167 constructs
The taxonomy spine — each construct carries the controlled keyword vocabulary used to build the corpus. Click any to see its papers. The imported phrases tier adds phrases extracted verbatim from recent and all-years management journal titles/abstracts (machine-extracted, frequency-gated — verify).
What's inside the book
Counting…
Papers, year by year
Journal quality, decade by decade
Each column is one decade at full height, split by the Scopus percentile of the journal each paper appeared in. Click a layer to read those papers.
Where it was published
Who wrote it
The 24 most frequent author names; each dot is one of their papers, at its year. Names are as recorded — the same person can appear under two spellings.
How often it was cited
Construct co-occurrence
Constructs appear together through hand coding or machine matches in paper titles and abstracts. Graph shows the connections; Matrix compares occurrence counts and opens the supporting papers.
The most frequent construct matches on a ring; each ribbon links two found in the same paper — thicker = more papers. Hover a construct to isolate its links, click a ribbon to read those papers. Recent corpus — machine-matched, verify; weight = how much, not direction.
Research camps — constructs grouped by which others they're most studied alongside (normalised co-occurrence; deterministic, no themes invented — the groupings come straight from the counts). Each card = a camp named by its hub; click a construct to read its papers. Recent corpus — verify.
Pick a construct to see what it's most studied alongside — bar length = papers coding both. Click a bar to read those papers, or the label to jump to that construct. Recent corpus — verify.
The top ~40 constructs as a labelled grid, reordered so camp-mates sit together (blocks = related constructs). Cell = papers matching both constructs; click to read them. Recent corpus — machine-matched, verify; colour = how much, not direction.
Trends
When each construct surged. Rows = the busiest constructs, columns = years, darker = more papers. Click a row to see its papers.
Term Trends
Fifty years of social-science research vocabulary from the OpenAlex corpus — — terms, sized by how often they appear in the literature and coloured by subfield. Scrub or play through the years; click a term to search this corpus for it. Folded in from Wordmap.