A Bibliometric Analysis of the Research on Social Attitudes Towards LGBT Community (2002–2022)

A bibliometric analysis was conducted to map out trends in publications on attitudes toward the LGBT community based on the 470 documents retrieved from the SCOPUS database for 2002–2022. The results revealed that the United States is the leading country contributing to the publications on attitudes toward the LGBT community and has a strong impact in the field (64.68%). The authorship analysis revealed that Flores, Woodford, and Worthen from the United States are the leading researchers in this field. Analysis of publication sources showed that the Journal of Homosexuality is the top publisher of findings on the LGBT community whereas the Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Sexuality and Culture have gained more traction among researchers in recent years. The analysis of the co-occurrence of author’s keywords indicated that transgender is the gender group that is the most researched compared to other sexual identities. Negative attitudes such as homophobia, discrimination and being heterosexist toward one’s sexuality or same-sex marriage are the current research foci. Religion and culture are seen as important predictors of attitudes about homosexuality and same-sex marriage policy. The study addresses the gaps in the literature by recommending future researchers to investigate attitudes toward other gender identities as a result of the revolution in sexual identities.

本研究聚焦于全球范围内LGBT群体的公众态度，探讨不同国家（特别是穆斯林占多数的国家与LGBT群体为少数的国家）对LGBT群体的接纳程度。研究关注同性恋婚姻合法化、社会对LGBT群体的负面态度（即同性恐惧症）以及影响这些态度的因素，如政治保守主义、年龄、宗教信仰等。此外，研究还指出目前缺乏对LGBT群体态度的书目计量分析，因此计划通过书目计量分析揭示LGBT相关研究的出版趋势、学术合作模式及影响力等。这些问题的探讨将为理解LGBT群体的社会接受度、政策制定和未来研究提供重要依据。

该研究使用书目计量分析法，收集了2002-2022年间的LGBT群体态度相关文献。首先，从SCOPUS数据库筛选并清洗数据，去除重复项和不一致的关键词。然后，通过Biblioshiny进行文献表现分析，并使用VOSviewer分析研究合作和研究主题的趋势，以提供LGBT群体态度研究的全面概览并为未来研究方向提供建议。

本研究通过书目计量分析揭示了关于LGBT群体态度的研究趋势。分析显示，自2002年开始，LGBT态度的研究逐渐兴起，且在2017年后增长显著。美国和英国的出版数量居前，而亚洲和穆斯林国家的出版物几乎为空白，这表明这些地区对LGBT话题的接受度较低。研究也指出，美国是主要的研究来源，学者们与加拿大、澳大利亚等国的合作较为密切。期刊方面，《同性恋期刊》是最常见的发表平台，跨性别群体是研究中的主要对象，文化和宗教常被作为研究公共态度的预测因素。研究还发现，关于LGBT群体的研究还存在一些空白，未来研究可以关注其他性别身份和社会媒体等领域。尽管本研究提供了有价值的见解，但由于只包含SCOPUS数据库中的文献，且分析时间有限，未来研究可能会得出不同的结论，建议进行纵向研究以进一步探索该领域的发展。