Purpose

This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis on “intertemporal choice” behavior of individuals from journals in the Scopus database between 1957 and 2023. The research covered the data on the said topic since it first originated in the Scopus database and carried out performance analysis and content analysis of papers in the business management and finance disciplines.

Design/methodology/approach

Bibliometric analysis, including science mapping and performance analysis, followed by content analysis of the papers of identified clusters, was conducted. Three clusters based on cocitation analysis and six themes (three major and three minor) were identified using the bibliometrix package in R studio. The content analysis of the papers in these clusters and themes have been discussed in this study, along with the thematic evolution of intertemporal choice research over the period of time, paving a way for future research studies.

Findings

The review unpacks publication and citation trends of intertemporal choice behavior, the most significant authors, journals and papers along with the major clusters and themes of research based on cocitation and degree of centrality and relevance, respectively, i.e. discounting experiments and intertemporal choice, impulsivity, risk preference, time-inconsistent preference, etc.

Originality/value

Over the past years, the research on “intertemporal choice” has flourished because of the increasing interest of researchers and scholars from different fields and the dynamic and pervasive nature of this topic. The well-developed and scattered body of knowledge on intertemporal choice has led to the need of applying a bibliometric analysis in the intertemporal choice literature.

中文翻译：

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跨期选择的文献计量和可视化分析：起源、增长和未来的研究途径

目的

本研究旨在对 1957 年至 2023 年间 Scopus 数据库中期刊中个体的“跨期选择”行为进行文献计量分析。该研究涵盖了该主题自首次起源于 Scopus 数据库以来的数据，并进行了绩效分析和企业管理和金融学科论文的内容分析。

设计/方法论/途径

进行了文献计量分析，包括科学图谱和性能分析，然后对已识别集群的论文进行内容分析。使用 R studio 中的 bibliometrix 包确定了基于共引分析的三个聚类和六个主题（三个主要和三个次要）。本研究讨论了这些集群和主题中论文的内容分析，以及跨期选择研究在一段时间内的主题演变，为未来的研究铺平了道路。

发现

该评论分别根据共引以及中心性和相关性程度，揭示了跨期选择行为的出版和引用趋势、最重要的作者、期刊和论文以及主要集群和研究主题，即折扣实验和跨期选择、冲动性、风险偏好、时间不一致偏好等

原创性/价值

近年来，由于不同领域的研究人员和学者的兴趣日益浓厚，以及该主题的动态性和普遍性，“跨期选择”的研究蓬勃发展。关于跨期选择的知识体系的完善和分散导致需要在跨期选择文献中应用文献计量分析。