Drawing a Knowledge Map and Co-occurrence Patterns of keywords of Scientific Productions in the field of Holistic's Approach

The holistic approach, by understanding the relationship between all the components of a whole in the design, can significantly affect the health of individuals in indoor environments. In this research, holistic's approach in indoor spaces is being evaluated through scientific productions.

Using scientometric research, descriptive-analytical method and co-occurrence technique of keywords, Scopus database information sources have been evaluated using VOSViewer software.

The findings showed that the keywords "energy efficiency", "air quality", "structural design", "thermal comfort", "ventilation" and "human" were among the most widely used words and words such as "environmental quality", "life cycle", "thermal insulation" and "indoor air" were among the terms that have been used extensively in recent years. Most scientific productions were conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom and Denmark. The growth of scientific productions in this field in different time periods has gone through a sinusoidal process and in 2021, the peak of scientific publications has been. Among the scientific productions of Iran in this field, Tehran University of Science and Technology with one research and two authors was the only Iranian university that had studied in this field. High-cited journals and authors, and the authorship network map between them were also analyzed.

The results of this study highlighted the widespread lack of environmental psychology research in the field of holistic approach in interior design and the prominent role of energy sub-sectors in this field and stressed the need for studies in Iran and interdisciplinary cooperation between developed and developing countries in future studies.