A Review of the Studies on Applied Behaviour Analysis through Citation and Content Analysis.
Keywords:
ABA, Content analysis, Behaviour analysis, Published documents, Recommendations, Research and practices.Abstract
The aim of this study is to carry out a review study to reveal the trends in studies on applied behaviour analysis (ABA). Content analysis and citation analysis, as a qualitative research method, were used for the analysis of published documents. A total of 110 documents were obtained from Scopus by using the keyword 'applied behaviour analysis'. and data were examined based on the content analysis criteria involving year of publication, name of the journals, authors, affiliations, countries, document type, subject area, keywords, language and citations. Data were analysed and provided with frequency and percentages and shown with tables and figures. Results show a regular increase in the number of published documents on ABA; medicine, psychology and social sciences were the most frequently studied subject areas and most of the published documents were articles. All results are discussed with the relevant literature and recommendations for further research and practices are provided.
