Table 1.

Top 10 journal topics per search term.

Ranking - most common publication areas	Search term
	Intrapersonal communication	Inner speech	Private speech	Self-talk
1st	Education educational research	Neurosciences	Psychology developmental	Sport sciences
2nd	Communication	Psychology experimental	Education educational research	Psychology applied
3rd	Psychology multidisciplinary	Psychiatry	Linguistics	Hospitality leisure sport tourism
4th	Public environmental occupational health	Psychology multidisciplinary	Psychology experimental	Psychology
5th	Psychology clinical	Psychology	Psychology multidisciplinary	Psychology multidisciplinary
6th	Social sciences interdisciplinary	Linguistics	Language linguistics	Psychology clinical
7th	Health care sciences services	Philosophy	Psychology educational	Education educational research
8th	Family studies	Psychology developmental	Psychology	Psychology experimental
9th	Psychology social	Education educational research	Rehabilitation	Psychiatry * (tied with psychology experimental)
10th	Health policy services	Clinical neurology	Law	Psychology social

The top 10 publication areas represented by articles listed on the Web of Science as of April 2024, based on search term. While communication appears as a top publication category for intrapersonal communication which may be simply because the word “communication” is present—inner speech, private speech, and self-talk all do not show communication as a main topic at all. Even for intrapersonal communication, communication is secondary to educational research.