Capturing Trends in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: A Shiny Web Application

ABSTRACT The present paper describes the purpose, and documents the primary functions of an open-source, Shiny web application developed for anyone interested in industrial-organizational psychology (trends.j-rigby.com). The application allows users to query the abstracts of over 150,000 peer-reviewed publications in 85 academic journals published in 1950 and thereafter that were sourced from Elsevier’s citation database, Scopus. Future goals include the incorporation of different frequency metrics and a peer-reviewed outlet recommendation system. Publication- and citation-related trends are plotted in accordance with the user-specified query, and publications meeting one’s query are displayed in tabular form, with an option to download a .csv of said table. All of the code and related materials, including the full database, are available via GitHub (https://github.com/jimmyrigby94/trends_in_io).