Table 2.
Top-three Seminal Papers for Each Research Theme, Published Outside the Set.
| Rank in research theme | Number of citations in data set | Authors | Journal | Title | Publication year | Number of citations in WoS | mncs | mnjs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moral reasoning | ||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Haidt, J. | Psychological Review | The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment | 2001 | 1994 | 52.59 | 10.37 |
| 2 | 36 | Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. | Psychological Bulletin | Political conservatism as motivated social cognition | 2003 | 1238 | 34.77 | 9.55 |
| 3 | 35 | Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. | Science | An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment | 2001 | 1360 | 32.18 | 13.44 |
| Moral judgments | ||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Haidt, J. | Psychological Review | The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment | 2001 | 1994 | 52.59 | 10.37 |
| 2 | 29 | Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Glick, P. | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Universal dimensions of social cognition: Warmth and competence | 2007 | 790 | 22.25 | 5.44 |
| 3 | 20 | Gray, K., Young, L, Waytz, A. | Psychological Inquiry | Mind perception is the essence of morality | 2012 | 154 | 10.97 | 4.95 |
| Moral behavior | ||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Mazar, N., Amir, O., & Ariely, D. | Journal of Marketing Research | The dishonesty of honest people: A theory of self-concept maintenance | 2008 | 543 | 23.69 | 2.16 |
| 2 | 24 | Blasi, A. | Psychological Bulletin | Bridging moral cognition and moral action: A critical review of the literature | 1980 | 594 | 24.15 | 7.41 |
| 3 | 17 | Ajzen, I. | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | The theory of planned behavior | 1991 | 14495 | 327.35 | 8.49 |
| Moral emotions | ||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Tangney, J. P., Stuewig, J., & Mashek, D. J. | Annual Review of Psychology | Moral emotions and moral behavior | 2007 | 605 | 21.51 | 13.71 |
| 2 | 16 | Baumeister, R. F., Stillwell, A. M., & Heatherton, T. F. | Psychological Bulletin | Guilt: An interpersonal approach | 1994 | 631 | 20.55 | 10.69 |
| 3 | 14 | Tangney, J. P., Miller, R. S., Flicker, L., Barlow, D. H. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Are shame, guilt and embarrassment distinct emotions? | 1996 | 460 | 7.02 | 3.42 |
| Moral self-views | ||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Zhong, C. B., & Liljenquist, K. | Science | Washing away your sins: Threatened morality and physical cleansing | 2006 | 323 | 9.69 | 10.26 |
| 2 | 10 | Haidt, J. | Psychological Review | The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment | 2001 | 1994 | 52.59 | 10.37 |
Note. The rank order within each theme is specified according to the number of citations within the data set examined, which not always corresponds to the total number of citations in WoS. We consider publications as seminal to research on morality when they attract at least 10 citations within the data set examined. As a result of this criterion, we only identified two external papers that were seminal to research on moral self-views. WoS = Web of Science.