Research on film editing in Web of Science in communication, film, radio & television, psychology and neurosciences & neurology

Abstract

This article provides a descriptive analysis of the scientific articles available on Web of Science focusing on film editing from 1976 to 2019 (n 148). The bibliometric analysis takes into account the author, gender, university affiliation, language, journal, nationality of the journal, year of creation of the journal, work typology, keywords, year of publication, number of citations obtained and the WoS category in which these publications are included. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis of the abstracts and articles of all publications available online was carried out. Its purpose is to identify the topics, samples and methodologies most frequently used. Results show that there has been a slight increase in interest in editing from 2015 onwards. However, there is little interest in it. Despite the fact that there are a greater number of magazines that cover the subject, each one publishes only one article a year on editing. The journals with the most articles on editing are British and American, but the Spanish Atalante also stands out. The majority of publications are in journals that deal with editing from a cognitive or neuropsychological perspective and which are the ones with the most citations. Research on editing usually provides an analysis of the editing of an author’s filmography or of specific techniques or films. They mainly follow a qualitative methodology, focused on resources or authors linked to constructive editing, or a neuropsychological experiment.