Analysis and prospect of clinical psychology based on topic models: hot research topics and scientific trends in the latest decades

The popularity of research topics in clinical psychology has always been changing over time. In this study, we use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a well-established statistical modeling approach in machine learning, to extract hot research topics in published review articles in clinical psychology. In Study 1, we use LDA to extract existing topics between 1981 to 2018 from the review articles published on three premium journals in clinical...