SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ON COMPASSION FATIGUE: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Bibliometrics play a very important role in the analysis of scientific production in a country. Its indicators show the degree of development of several scientific areas, being this evaluation of scientific production important for the recognition of researchers in the scientific community. The purpose of this work was to analyze and describe the existing scientific production on compassion fatigue. Bibliometric research was carried out on academic papers indexed on the Web of Science^TM. Here, 831 publication records were identified in 426 different Journals, after applying the refinement filters. The search terms were “compassion fatigue” or “fadiga por compaixão” which were used in the ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science^TM. The time frame selected was between 1994 and 2019. The results show the following the most representative Journal is The Clinical Social Work Journal, the authors that published the most are Figley and Hegney, whereas Figley and Sprang had the most quotations. The United States of America and Australia are the most representative countries. The most cited articles are “Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapist’ chronic lack of self care”, by Figley (2002) and “Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among social workers”, by Bride (2007).

Key words:
Fatigue; Compassion fatigue; Bibliometrics