Research database: Modern Сultural-Historical Psychology Keywords

A bibliometric analysis of 551 scientific publications indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection for the 2010-2020 period was carried out. To analyse the keywords related to cultural-historical psychology, the frequencies of their representation in the sample were calculated. Thus, following a semantic analysis of the initial set of 1742 words and phrases, a semantic equivalence was established, followed by the unification of semantically equivalent expressions. As a result, a sample of 1532 terminological units was obtained.Cluster and factor analyses of frequency distributions (profiles) of keywords in a sample of publications took into account a number of grouping variables (year of publication, country, source of publication, scientific organisation, area of research). The sampling procedure included the formation of a “core” of publications (n = 105) which, according to the expert assessment, correspond to the thematic area of cultural-historical psychology, as well as the formation of the “core +” sample on its basis, comprising “core” publications and other publications citing “core” publications (n = 446). The assumed existence of three main theoretical and methodological directions within the framework of contemporary research into cultural-historical psychology and the activity approach was confirmed by the results of cluster and factor analyses of the frequency distributions of keywords in sub-samples of publications grouped by countries and universities. The conclusion presents a complex interpretation of these results along with an exploration of possible directions for their further verification. The terminological analyses of the three directions (approaches) carried out in the study reveal that the contemporary stage in the development of cultural-historical psychology and activity approach (in a broad sense) can be characterised by both unity and diversity.