Identification and Analysis of the His-torical Origins of Occupational Thera-py by Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy

Using two scientometric techniques named RPYS and RPYS-Co, this research tries to discover the evolutionary and historical development of research in the field of occupational therapy.

The research is applied in terms of goal, and is descriptive in terms of data gathering. The research data consists of 7592 articles in the field of therapeutic work. Which are indexed over the 20-year period (1998-2017) in Clarivate Analytics Indexes (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, A & HCI and ESCI). After extracting all the works included in the resource list of these articles, the results were analyzed using the CRExplorer software.

Findings showed that during 1900-2000, in total, the occupational therapy field witnessed 11 historical mutations in 1910, 1919, 1922, 1943, 1948, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1998, respectively The title of the most valuable work in the period under review is attributed to the World Health Organization (WHO), Occupational Therapy for Dementia Patients and their Care (2006), and Mini-mental State: a Practical Method for Grading the Cognitive State of Patients for the Clinician (1975).

The results showed that all mutations introduced by both RPYS and RPYS-CO in the field of occupational therapy were paper-based.