The field of near-death studies through 2001: An analysis of the periodical literature.
Janice Holden, Rozan Christian
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2005 DOI: 10.17514/jnds-2005-24-1-p21-34. (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Bibliometric analysis of scholarly literature (descriptive index analysis) Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Near-death-related scholarly articles published through 2001, more than 600 scholarly articles among over 800 total |
| Citations | 4 |
| Key points | The authors report that an Index classifying more than 800 near-death-related articles, including over 600 scholarly ones, using 135 topics reveals descriptive patterns about the field's first quarter century, including dates, venues, authors, and topics of publications. The article also identifies underaddressed topics and announces plans for an updated index covering all periodical publications in 2006. |
Abstract
Since 1975, when Raymond Moody coined the term "near-death experience" (NDE), numerous articles have been published addressing NDEs and related phenomena.To make that literature accessible to researchers, the International Association for Near-Death Studies published an Index (2005) on CD-ROM in which the authors used 135 near-death-related topics to analyze more than 800 articles, including comprehensive coverage of more than 600 scholarly articles, published through 2001.Upon completion, the authors realized the Index revealed interesting descriptive data profiling the scholarly literature of the first quarter century of the field of near-death studies.Those data are presented in this article, including findings regarding dates, venues, authors, and topics of scholarly publications.The article concludes with a brief discussion of underaddressed topics in the field and of plans for an updated comprehensive index of all periodical publications, both scholarly and nonscholarly, in 2006 to commemorate the first 30 years of the formal field of near-death studies.
Citations in the library
Cites 6
- Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands The Lancet December 1, 2001
- Dissociation in people who have near-death experiences: out of their bodies or out of their minds? The Lancet February 1, 2000
- The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death Harvard Theological Review 1969
- Near-death experiences. American Psychological Association eBooks October 27, 2004
- The Near-Death Experience as a Focus of Clinical Attention The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease May 1, 1997
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