From Self-Regulated Learning to Metacognitive Therapy: A Mapping Knowledge Doamains Analysis

Metacognition has become an important topic in the fields of cognitive psychology and attracted much attention from educational psychology, clinical psychology and other fields. The study used mapping knowledge domain, and selected 3268 papers of SSCI and SCIE citation database in the Web of Science Core Collection, in order to intuitively, dynamically and quantitatively reveal the progress of metacognitive research, and provide reference for the research on metacognitive related topics. The results showed that self-regulated learning, metacognitive therapy, metamemory, schizophrenia, and confidence were the focus of metacognitive research. Retrieval practice, metacognitive therapy and persecutory delusion were the frontier fields of metacognitive research. And there were three important papers (i.e. Flavell, 1979; Nelson, 1990; Wells & Matthews, 1996). Lysaker PH, Wells A, Moritz S, Dunlosky J and so on were important authors in recent metacognitive research.