Organisational decision-making, education policy, and artificial intelligence are important areas of Moral Intelligence application as per the results of the study.
Authors
Dipanjan Bagchi, Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Delhi NCR, Delhi, India.
Akancha Srivastava, Associate Professor, Jindal School of Psychology and Counseling, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
Bhawna Tushir, Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Delhi NCR, Delhi, India.
Summary
Introduction: Moral Intelligence (MI) as a concept has gained importance in recent years due to its wide applicability in individual, organizational, and clinical settings or even policy making. The present study employed Bibliometric analysis to understand the emerging topics associated with MI and its global research trend. This paper’s primary aim was (i) to explore the temporal and geographic growth trends of the research publication on MI. (ii) to identify the most prolific countries, institutions, and authors, working on MI, (iii) to identify the most frequent terminologies, (iv) to explore research topics and to provide insight into potential collaborations and future directions, and (v) to explore the significance of the concept of moral intelligence.
Method: Bibliometric analysis was used to understand the emerging topics associated with MI and its global research trend using the SCOPUS database. VOS viewer and R were employed to analyze the result. Through the analysis conducted, the development of the construct over time was analyzed.
Results: Results have shown that Iran and the United States and these two combined account for 53.16% of the total country-wise publications. Switzerland has the highest number of Multi-county publications. Authors from Iran and Switzerland have the most number of publications. Emerging topics like decision-making, machine ethics, moral agents, artificial ethics, co-evolution of human and artificial moral agents, green purchase intention etc were identified.
Discussion: The application of MI in organisational decision-making, education policy, artificial intelligence and measurement of moral intelligence are important areas of application as per the results. Research interest in MI is projected to increase according to the results delineated in this article.
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology
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