key: cord-0981554-jolxf6pb authors: Sánchez-Núñez, Pablo; Cobo, Manuel J.; Vaccaro, Gustavo; Peláez, José Ignacio; Herrera-Viedma, Enrique title: Citation Classics in Consumer Neuroscience, Neuromarketing and Neuroaesthetics: Identification and Conceptual Analysis date: 2021-04-27 journal: Brain Sci DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050548 sha: 3f3ea0ad2bb401f3e79c9f7d9ca816a4d285a8b6 doc_id: 981554 cord_uid: jolxf6pb Neuromarketing, consumer neuroscience and neuroaesthetics are a broad research area of neuroscience with an extensive background in scientific publications. Thus, the present study aims to identify the highly cited papers (HCPs) in this research field, to deliver a summary of the academic work produced during the last decade in this area, and to show patterns, features, and trends that define the past, present, and future of this specific area of knowledge. The HCPs show a perspective of those documents that, historically, have attracted great interest from a research community and that could be considered as the basis of the research field. In this study, we retrieved 907 documents and analyzed, through H-Classics methodology, 50 HCPs identified in the Web of Science (WoS) during the period 2010–2019. The H-Classic approach offers an objective method to identify core knowledge in neuroscience disciplines such as neuromarketing, consumer neuroscience, and neuroaesthetics. To accomplish this study, we used Bibliometrix R Package and SciMAT software. This analysis provides results that give us a useful insight into the development of this field of research, revealing those scientific actors who have made the greatest contribution to its development: authors, institutions, sources, countries as well as documents and references. Consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing, and neuroaesthetics are three subfields of neuroscience, and play a key role in the design's products, experiences, or services since they are concerned with how our brain perceives, process and reacts to the various stimuli presented in our environment [1] [2] [3] [4] . Consumer neuroscience is the discipline that investigates the neural correlates of consumer decisions with a clear focus on progress in basic scientific understanding of the brain [5] , whereas neuromarketing is the discipline that tries to use the methodologies and insights from consumer neuroscience in applied research and business applications [6] , and neuroaesthetics, which the main goal is to characterize the neurobiological foundations and evolutionary history of the cognitive and affective processes involved in aesthetic experiences and artistic and creative activities as well as to recognize which are the subjective ratings and universal standard and patterns of beauty [7, 8] , by using all the power of RQ1. What are the leaders and knowledge hubs (most relevant authors, affiliations, countries, and sources) in consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics? RQ2. What are the disruptive documents and sources (most relevant cited papers, references, and sources) in consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics? RQ3. What is the conceptual structure (motor themes, and emerging or declining themes) in scientific publications about consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics? To do so, the paper is set out as follows: Section 2, defines the materials, methods, and the approach used in the analysis, Section 3 presents the results of our analysis, and, finally, Section 4 concludes with the discussion, conclusion, and upcoming investigation approaches. The H-Classics analysis was realized based on academic publications related to consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing, and neuroaesthetics. The source of information was the Web of Science (WoS) database. The WoS database (Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, PA, USA), was founded by Eugene Garfield, one of the precursors of informetrics. The WoS is a collection of databases of bibliographic references and citations from periodicals that collect information from 1900 to the present. The choice of the WoS as the data source was made based on two main characteristics of the database: it provides numerous analysis tools for processing the data and it offers highly accurate and reliable research information [30, 33] . In this research, we gathered 907 scientific documents ranging from 2010 to 2019. 907 results were checked for applicability in the present work. Authors considered the period 2010-2019 the one that covers the most recent academic production in this research area by, establishing the last decade as a timespan, to analyze the most recent and innovative innovations and discoveries in consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics. The specific search equation was formulated according to the search logic of the WoS database. The terms selected for the search equation were keywords related to consumer behaviour and neuroscience (neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and consumer neuroscience). Choosing all document types and scientific work written in any language. Table 1 illustrates the query design. The retrieved WoS dataset and the citation report are available at the Zenodo repository [35] . Web of Science Core Collection: SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, BKCI-S, BKCI-SSH, ESCI, CCR-EXPANDED, IC. 2010-2019 TS = ("Neuromarketing" OR "Consumer Neuroscience" OR ("Neuroscience" AND ("Marketing" OR "Advert*")) OR ("Neuroaesthetics" OR "Neuroesthetics")) 907 22 October 2020 According to Martinez et al. [16] , there are four key phases to follow for carrying out the identification procedure of HCPs of a research area applying the H-Classics concept: (1) Bibliographic database and source of information selection to retrieve the study sample. Some commonly used examples are the PubMed database, Google Scholar database, Scopus database, or WoS database. For the reasons explained above, the database chosen in this study is the WoS. (2) Delimit the WoS research area. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the study subject, this discipline focuses on many sub-areas/categories in WoS (such as COMMUNI-CATION, HEALTH SCIENCES, MARKETING, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, NEU-ROSCIENCE, NEUROIMAGING, SOCIAL SCIENCES, etc.). Due to this, the subject category has not been delimited in WoS, as it could produce a skewed and incomplete result. To properly delimit the research area, in this study we have elaborated the query that is presented in Table 1 . (3) Computing the H-Index. The computation of the H-Index of the document retrieval is completed by establishing a ranking of the papers according to their citations in the research area. The WoS database provides us with filtering tools (Citation Report) to easily compute the H-Index of the study topic. (4) Computing the H-Core. The H-Core and consequently the HCPs in this field of research were retrieved through the automatic function provided by Web of Science, called "Create Citation Report". The tool provides the H-Index of the HCPs, known as H-Core. Following the example: If we have retrieved N articles and their respective citations subject to scientific category of A, we could also calculate the H-Index of category A as we calculate the H-index of a researcher [16] i.e., A paper P of scientific category A is considered an H-Classic of A if and only if P is inside of the H-core of A. In such a way, H-Classics of a research area A could be defined as the H-core of A that is composed of the H highly cited papers with more than H citations received. Table 2 shows the Citation Report and the Record Count resulting from the WoS querying. The total publications gathered (907), combined a sum of 9931 times cited and produced an average of 10.95 citations per paper. The H-Index is the same as 50, which means that 50 studies have received at least 50 citations. Consequently, the H-Classics selection (50 H-Index documents) is the study sample of this work. To perform the H-Classics Analysis, we have used the following scientometric and science mapping analysis tools: • Bibliometrix version 3.0.2, designed by Aria and Cuccurullo [36] , is an open-source tool, developed in R. It is designed for informetrics research including all the main bibliometric methods of analysis (co-citation, coupling, and scientific collaboration analysis). The package allows importing bibliographic data from the main scientific databases such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, or Cochrane, among others. Bibliometrix has been frequently used by researchers in various fields of knowledge such as educational technology research [37] , Big Data and Social Media [19] , or infectious diseases [20] , along with others. We used Bibliometrix to perform the annual production of H-Classics, the percentage of citations of papers as well as to detect the most relevant authors, documents, affiliations, and countries. • SciMAT version 1.1.04, developed by Cobo, López-Herrera, and Herrera-Viedma [21, 22] , is an open-source science mapping software tool that incorporates methods, algorithms, and measures for all the steps in science mapping workflow, from preprocessing to the visualization of the results. SciMAT has been recently used by several researchers in fields of knowledge such as library and information science [38] , scientometrics and COVID-19 (or coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2) research [39] or artificial intelligence and machine learning [40] . We used SciMAT to study the incoming and outgoing keywords, the conceptual structure of science and key themes over time as well as the identification of developing or decreasing topics. Table 3 presents the summarized main results of the H-Classics analysis. The table displays key information about the bibliographic data retrieved and several sub-tables, such as annual scientific production, top manuscripts per number of citations, most productive authors, most productive countries, total citation per country, most relevant sources (journals), and most relevant keywords. Additionally, various diverse co-authorship indices are exposed. In specific, the Authors per Article index is calculated as the ratio between the total number of authors and the total number of articles. The Co-Authors per Articles index is measured as the average number of co-authors per article. In this circumstance, the index reflects the author's appearances while for the "authors per article" an author, even if he published more than one article, is counted only on one occasion (Authors per Article index ≤ Coauthors per Article index). The CI or Collaboration Index (Total Authors of Multi-Authored Articles/Total Multi-Authored Articles) is a Co-authors per Article index calculated only using the multi-authored article set [41] . 14) , considering that had 10 years of citation ahead of it (which is the length of the study period). However, the most satisfactory year in terms of total citations per year Table 4 show the Average Citations per Year. The results show that 2010, with 7 H-Classics papers, was the year with the highest average percentage of citations per paper (115.14), considering that had 10 years of citation ahead of it (which is the length of the study period). However, the most satisfactory year in terms of total citations per year (TCpY) was 2017, with the highest peak (represented in Figure 2 ), and with 3 H-Classics papers published and an average of 38.11 total citations per year (TCpY) and only 3 citable years (CY) (the remainder of the study period until 2019). A source is a journal/book/conference proceeding series/etc. which published one or more documents included in our bibliographic collection. In our collection, we have a total of 36 different sources. Table 5 shows Most Local Cited Sources (from Reference Lists). Local citations measure how many times a document included in this collection have been cited by the documents also included in the collection. A cited source is a journal/book/conference proceeding series/etc. included in at least one of the reference lists (bibliography) of the document set. In our collection, we have 1428 cited sources included in the 50 document bibliographies. In this case, NEUROIMAGE stands out in 1st position with 182 articles, in 2nd position JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE with 117 articles, in 3rd position we found NEURON with 111 articles, in 4th position we found JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RE-SEARCH with 99 articles and in 5th position we found SCIENCE with 87 referenced articles. Sources Articles A source is a journal/book/conference proceeding series/etc. which published one or more documents included in our bibliographic collection. In our collection, we have a total of 36 different sources. Table 5 shows Most Local Cited Sources (from Reference Lists). Local citations measure how many times a document included in this collection have been cited by the documents also included in the collection. A cited source is a journal/book/conference proceeding series/etc. included in at least one of the reference lists (bibliography) of the document set. In our collection, we have 1428 cited sources included in the 50 document bibliographies. In this case, NEUROIMAGE stands out in 1st position with 182 articles, in 2nd position JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE with 117 articles, in 3rd position we found NEURON with 111 articles, in 4th position we found JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH with 99 articles and in 5th position we found SCIENCE with 87 referenced articles. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 64 10. Journal of Consumer Psychology 55 Table 6 shows the most relevant sources, as well as the source local impact, the initial year of publication of the manuscripts in the sources, the total number of citations (TC), the number of publications (NP), the number of articles, and various indexes and metrics of scientific productivity such as the H-Index [18] , the G-Index [42] and the M-Index [43] . G-Index is a variant of the H-Index that, in its calculation, gives credit for the most highly cited papers in a data set and the G-Index is always the same as or higher than the H-Index and M-Index is another variant of the H-Index that displays H-Index per year since first publication [44] . Archives of General Psychiatry The distribution frequency of articles ( Figure 3 ) indicates the sources dealing with the issue and related topics and it calculates yearly published documents of the top sources (Table 7) . Between 2011 and 2014, it was substantial growth in the number of publications on the subject. The graph shows the result of the Loess regression. As variables, it includes the number and the publication time of the source under study. This method allowed the function to assume a limitless distribution, that is, it permits the function to adopt values below zero if the data is near to zero. It contributed to a better graphic result and highlights the break in the history of the publications [45] . Brain Sci. 2021, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 10 of Table 8 shows the most relevant authors and their local impact. It quantifies an ind vidual author's contribution to a published set of papers. The two authors who had th major scientific production in H-Classics were in 1st position, the researcher A. Chatterje with four papers in H-Classics and a total of 438 citations and 2nd position the researche M. Nadal, also with four papers in H-Classics and a total of 272 citations. Publication Year Start indicates the first year the author published in (in the set o included studies). Chatterjee and Nadal started publishing papers that are part of the H Classics collection in 2011. Table 8 shows the most relevant authors and their local impact. It quantifies an individual author's contribution to a published set of papers. The two authors who had the major scientific production in H-Classics were in 1st position, the researcher A. Chatterjee with four papers in H-Classics and a total of 438 citations and 2nd position the researcher M. Nadal, also with four papers in H-Classics and a total of 272 citations. Publication Year Start indicates the first year the author published in (in the set of included studies). Chatterjee and Nadal started publishing papers that are part of the H-Classics collection in 2011. Table 9 shows the generated frequency table of the Most Local Cited Authors. Local Cited Authors measure how many times an author included in this collection have been cited by the authors also included in the collection. Chatterjee, besides being one of the authors with more scientific production and with the highest impact was also an author of reference for the authors of H-Classics appearing in other works (being cited more than 54 times). Figure 4 and Table 10 show the Author's Production Over Time. The function visually represented calculates and plots the authors' production (in terms of the number of publications, and total citations per year) over time. Jacobsen, T 36 3 Knutson, B 30 4 Plassmann, H 30 5 Leder, H 24 6 Vartanian, O 23 7 Berridge, K.C. 22 8 Mcclure, S.M 22 9 Koelsch, S 21 10 Poldrack, R.A. 20 of reference for the authors of H-Classics appearing in other works (being cited more than 54 times). , A 54 2 Jacobsen, T 36 3 Knutson, B 30 4 Plassmann, H 30 5 Leder, H 24 6 Vartanian, O 23 7 Berridge, K.C. 22 8 Mcclure, S.M 22 9 Koelsch, S 21 10 Poldrack, R.A. 20 Figure 4 and Table 10 show the Author's Production Over Time. The function visually represented calculates and plots the authors' production (in terms of the number of publications, and total citations per year) over time. Total citations represent the number of times each manuscript has been cited and Total citations per year represent the yearly average number of times each manuscript has been cited. The three authors who had a longer and more consistent trajectory in H-Classics were: Chatterjee Figure 5 shows the data visualization of the countries of origin of the most relevant corresponding authors of the H-Classics selection. The correspondence author (APC) or designated co-author is the person who will serve as a representative on behalf of all coauthors, by establishing contact during the process of submission, review, and final editing of the manuscript with the editor-in-chief and associate editors of a particular journal. MCP represents the inter-country and SCP represents the intra-country collaboration indices corresponding author of each manuscript. MCP indicates, for each country, the number of documents in which there is at least one co-author from a different country. In contrast, the SCP represents scientific papers that have been published and all co-authors of the manuscript have an affiliation from the same country. As can be seen in Figure 5 and Table 11 , the USA stands out from the rest of the selection with a total of 19 corresponding authors in 19 different articles and a frequency of 38 participations, followed by Germany in 2nd place with a total of five corresponding authors in five articles and a frequency of 10 corresponding authors, and in 3rd place the United Kingdom with a total of five corresponding authors in five articles and a frequency of 10 corresponding authors. The USA had a rather high publication rate in intra-collaboration, more than half of their scientific output in H-Classics. Also, to a lesser extent Germany and United Kingdom. However, Canada, France, Spain, and Australia had a presence in production in terms of corresponding authors, but we observe how the work they have produced has been through the authors' inter-collaboration. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 13 of 25 Table 12 shows the most relevant affiliations, the frequency distribution of affiliations of all co-authors for each paper. Two international reputation and excellence rankings of worldwide universities were used to compare the results: ARWU World University Rankings 2019 [46] and QS World University Rankings 2019 [47] . Temple University was the American university with the largest volume of articles (12), followed by the American universities University of Pennsylvania (2nd position and 10 articles), Duke University (3rd position and eight articles), Emory University (6th position and five articles), The University oF California, Los Angeles (7th position and five articles) and Columbia University (9th position and four articles). The rest of the institutions were European organizations belonging to Germany (Freie Universität Berlin in 4th position and eight articles), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School in 5th position and five articles), the UK (the University of Oxford in 8th position and five articles) and the Netherlands (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in 10th position and 4 articles). All the research centres and organizations selected in the table had a presence in at least one of the two prestigious international university rankings (QS/ARWU) and all of them occupied relevant positions within the university reputation rankings. Table 12 shows the most relevant affiliations, the frequency distribution of affiliations of all co-authors for each paper. Two international reputation and excellence rankings of worldwide universities were used to compare the results: ARWU World University Rankings 2019 [46] and QS World University Rankings 2019 [47] . Temple University was the American university with the largest volume of articles (12), followed by the American universities University of Pennsylvania (2nd position and 10 articles), Duke University (3rd position and eight articles), Emory University (6th position and five articles), The University oF California, Los Angeles (7th position and five articles) and Columbia University (9th position and four articles). The rest of the institutions were European organizations belonging to Germany (Freie Universität Berlin in 4th position and eight articles), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School in 5th position and five articles), the UK (the University of Oxford in 8th position and five articles) and the Netherlands (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in 10th position and 4 articles). All the research centres and organizations selected in the table had a presence in at least one of the two prestigious international university rankings (QS/ARWU) and all of them occupied relevant positions within the university reputation rankings. Table 13 shows the affiliation countries' frequency distribution. To understand the research productivity of a nation, the resulting frequency of scientific production by country was compared with the international monetary indicator Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 2019 World Bank [48] . The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the monetary value of a country's production of final goods and services during a year. GDP is commonly used as a measure of the degree of the well-being of a country's population [49] . The USA was positioned in 1st place in scientific production with a frequency of 111, followed by GERMANY with a frequency of 27 and the UK also with the same frequency. These countries, apart from having the largest scientific production in H-Classics in consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics, also occupy the first positions in the economic and welfare development international indexes ( Figure 6 and Table 13 ). Table 14 shows the countries that have received the highest total citations among the 50 H-Classics documents published and classified. Among the 50 selected papers, many of the selected authors chose articles to reference their scientific works having their origin of scientific production in the USA (2265 citations), followed by Germany (446 citations), Table 14 shows the countries that have received the highest total citations among the 50 H-Classics documents published and classified. Among the 50 selected papers, many of the selected authors chose articles to reference their scientific works having their origin of scientific production in the USA (2265 citations), followed by Germany (446 citations), Canada (406), United Kingdom (391 citations) and France (250 citations). Australia 161 161 10 The Netherlands 151 75.5 Table 15 shows the list of the most relevant manuscripts sorted by citations from the H-Classics selection (50 documents). Global Citations (TC) means the Total Citations that an article, included in the selected collection, has received from documents indexed on a bibliographic database (WoS, Scopus, etc.). So, TC counts citations received by a selected article "all over the world". The most frequently cited work was 'Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business' [52] , a research study about the application of neuroimaging methods to product marketing with 332 citations and a total citation per year of 30.18. Top main journals on the studied subject. The two keywords used in most of the countries were 'fMRI' and 'neuroaesthetics'. Table 15 shows the list of the most relevant manuscripts sorted by citations from the H-Classics selection (50 documents). Global Citations (TC) means the Total Citations that an article, included in the selected collection, has received from documents indexed on a bibliographic database (WoS, Scopus, etc.). So, TC counts citations received by a selected article "all over the world". The most frequently cited work was 'Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business' [52] , a research study about the application of neuroimaging methods to product marketing with 332 citations and a total citation per year of 30.18. Table 16 shows the generated frequency table of the Most Cited References. It refers to the scientific document included in at least one of the reference lists (bibliography) of the document set. In our collection, we have more than 3700 references included in the 50 document bibliographies. The most frequently cited local reference was the scientific work 'Neural correlates of behavioural preference for culturally familiar drinks' [60] . a research study where the authors delivered Coke and Pepsi to human subjects and examined them in behavioural taste tests and passive experiments carried out during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The scientific work was cited 17 times in our H-Classics collection. Figure 8A shows the Callon's density and centrality as network measures [21, 69] to each detected cluster in the selected period. The strategic diagram is divided into 4 quadrants (upper-right quadrant defines motor clusters, upper-left quadrant defines highly, developed, and isolated clusters, lower-left quadrant defines, emerging or declin-ing clusters and lower-right quadrant defines basic and transversal clusters). Callon's centrality measures the degree of interaction of a network with other networks, and it can be understood as the external cohesion of the network and Callon's density measures the internal strength of the network, and it can be understood as the internal cohesion of the network. Figure 8B represents the strategic diagram during the period 2010-2019. Figure 8C shows the Quadrant distribution/Themes/Documents count. Figure 8D shows ART cluster, (E) PREFRONTAL CORTEX cluster, (F) NEUROMARKETING cluster, and (G) EEG cluster. Were analyzed the two quadrants (upper-right and lower-left) that we considered essential and most interesting for the development of the research area: Brain Sci. 2021, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 18 of 25 processes while participants undertook a choice task designed to elicit preferences for a product using EEG and eye-tracking. Upper-right or (Q1) Motor clusters with ART cluster (PREFERENCE, FACIAL AT-TRACTIVENESS, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, APPRECIATION, MUSIC CORRELATE, EM-PIRICAL AESTHETICS, AESTHETICS, NEUROAESTHETICS, JUDGEMENT, PERCEP-TION, and REWARDS VALUE) presents studies centred in experiments on aesthetic experiences by investigating behavioural, neural, and psychological properties of package design through fMRI, neuroimaging studies of positive-valence aesthetic appraisal across four sensory modalities, and studies related to systematic and literature reviews about neuroaesthetics and aesthetic experience. Upper-right or (Q1) Motor cluster with NEUROMARKETING cluster, limiting with (Q2) Basic and Transversal cluster (ATTENTION, CONSUMER CHOICE, ADVERTISING, ETHICS, VALUE, ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX, FMRI, REWARD, CONSUMER NEURO-SCIENCE, VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX, and EMOTION) presents studies associated to an overview of the current and previous research in consumer psychology of brands and the role of researchers and practitioners when applying neuroscience to the consumer psychology of brands, investigations about physiological decision processes while participants undertook a choice task designed to elicit preferences for a product using EEG and eye-tracking. Upper-right or (Q1) Motor cluster with PREFRONTAL CORTEX cluster, limiting with (Q4) Highly Developed and Isolated cluster (BRAIN ACTIVITY, AFFECTIVE STYLE, DECISION MAKING, and HIGH-RESOLUTION EEG) presents research focused on Applications, Challenges, and Possible Solutions in consumer neuroscience, changes in the EEG frontal activity during the observation of commercial videoclips, overviews of published papers about marketing research employing electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG) methods and, fMRI studies using concealed information paradigm in which participants were trained to use countermeasures and to defeat deception detection. Lower-left or Emerging or declining clusters (Q3) with EEG cluster (Marketing Research, Inhibition, Memory, Neural Responses, and Cortex) presents studies related to systematic and literature reviews about consumer neuroscience and marketing, brain responses to movie trailers to predict individual preferences for movies and commercial success, studies about abstract art and cortical motor activation through EEG, studies to predict consumers' future choices through EEG and studies about the identification of frontal cortex activation in reaction to TV advertisements. In the present study, consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics HCPs have been identified and consequently analyzed using the concept of H-Classics. The analysis of the HCPs allows us to highlight the following remarkable findings: The 50 H-Classics documents analyzed are published in a total of 36 different sources. A total of 3727 references are used to illustrate the papers, which is an average of 74.54 references per H-Classics article. The document types are 39 articles, two proceeding papers, eight reviews, and one book chapter. It is important to note that among the 50 HCPs, 16% of them are literature reviews. Consequently, authors from the fields of consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics use these H-Classics to reference their work in the theoretical framework of their papers. The H-Classics retrieved a sum of 282 keywords in the different papers selected, which means a sum of 5.64% of average keywords per document. The H-Classics in consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics is written by a total of 210 authors. There is an average of 4.2% of authors per document, which means that the 50 HCPs collection has been written mostly by teams of four researchers/scientists. Only eight works out of 50 in total are written by a single author, this shows that in these disciplines there is a tendency to collaborate and co-produce with other authors. These results are to be expected since it is a journal with a long academic trajectory since it has been publishing articles on consumer behaviour and neuroscience since the 1990s, making it a reference within the scientific community. Also, the source growth indicates an exponential growth in the number of articles per selected publication, this means that during the first five years of the period (2010-2014) a slight number of HCPs has been published in the showed journals and it has been in the second part of the period when the journals have received the highest H-Classics volume. As we can see in the results related to the most cited authors and the most relevant journals, we observe that the most relevant authors are from the field of neuroesthetics; however, the journals where most HCPs articles are published are in consumer neuroscience, marketing, and commerce journals. Perhaps, at first glance it may seem that they are unconnected and separate disciplines, as pointed out by several authors, however, this fact could be a reason and reason for existing connections between the different subfields of neuroscience, and we would not have to consider them separately and watertight. • Temple University (USA) is the university that has had the highest number of affiliations in H-Classics works in neuromarketing and neuroesthetics (a total of 12 articles). It is a benchmark institution in neuroscience and hosts the Center for Neural Decision Making, the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, and Temple University Neurocognition Laboratory. Also, it should be noted that 60% of the most relevant institutions are from the USA. All of them have active research in neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, or related fields, like consumer behaviour, neuroeconomics, and decision science. These results have shown that Temple's scientists are at the forefront of research and teaching in the rapidly expanding world of neuroscience since they support an interdisciplinary approach to this exciting field of study, with different neuroscience programs spanning multiple Schools, Colleges, and research centres. However, Temple University occupies a relative position within the international rankings (301-400 in ARWU and 651-700 in QS). This means that, despite not being one of the most prestigious universities nor a university of generic excellence based in ARWU 2019 and QS 2019, it is one of the most relevant universities in this study discipline and a pioneer in research in neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience. Defining authorship in scientific articles and papers is an essential and complex process that involves subjectivity and depends on agreements generally established by word of mouth, which can lead to conflicts among researchers. The meaning of the order of the signature varies according to the areas. For example, in Mathematics, the order of the signatures is limited to an alphabetical criterion, therefore, the attribution of the value of the work is distributed equally among each author, and mathematicians are very careful not to collaborate with other researchers unless it is essential. Social Sciences has adopted the uses of Biomedicine where the order of authors implies different roles and workloads in the development of the article. Therefore, in this system, the positions reflect the role of each of the authors and the order the involvement in the work [70] . According to Robinson-García and Amat, we can identify these different types of authorship, such as first author, corresponding author, other authors and occasional collaborators [71] . For example, it seems that in some labs/countries the supervisor (i.e., the senior author, often the last author/head of the lab) is designated as the corresponding author rather than the first author (e.g., the PhD student who has done most of the work). These facts may to some extent distort or bias the perspective when analyzing some results, as the cultural as well as the social context must be considered to have a 360 • perspective to interpret the results in an unbiased way. Within this context, we found that the USA is the country that has brought together the highest number of corresponding authors (19 articles). Besides, it is the country where most of its scientific production has been carried out through intra-collaboration. However, other countries like Canada, France, Spain, or Australia do not have intra-collaboration of H-Classics for the disciplines of consumer neuroscience, neuromarketing and neuroaesthetics and all the work they have produced has been through inter-collaboration. This can often be subject to conflicts of interest arising from the processing of sensitive data, as well as commercial interests, or permits to carry out neuroscience studies with humans, among others, making transnational research work difficult. The USA also has the highest distributed frequency of publications in H-Classics in neuromarketing and neuroesthetics (Freq. 11), is the country of origin of the references that more authors have cited in their bibliographies and is the country that has published in all the top 10 most relevant sources and used the top 10 most frequently keywords. The high level of development and quality of life expressed in GDP 2019/IMF 2019 can be reflected in the impact and high-quality scientific results and scientific production volume. • The most cited HCP is 'Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business' [52] , a research study about the application of neuroimaging methods to product marketing with 332 citations and a total citation per year of 30.18. This work is a reference for all product marketers as it is an article review within the field of neuroimaging and its applicability in the field of business development. The most cited reference is 'Neural correlates of behavioural preference for culturally familiar drinks' [60] , a research study where the authors delivered Coke and Pepsi to human subjects and examined their attitude and reactions in behavioural taste tests as well as in passive experiments carried out during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand how cultural messages combine with content to shape our perceptions; even to the point of modifying behavioural preferences for a primary reward like a sugared drink. This scientific work was cited 17 times in our H-Classics collection. This work involves two giants of consumer goods and behind this type of studies always tends to have a large funding and a derived interest because it determines consumer behaviour in the global market, so they are works that are often disseminated in the news media and commonly the disclosure and impact are very high. The most cited source (from the reference list) is Neuroimage by Elsevier (182 referenced articles). Edited by Dr Michael Breakspear (The University of Sydney), NeuroImage, a Journal of Brain Function, provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in the use of neuroimaging to study structure-function and brain-behaviour relationships. The journal has a 5-year Impact factor: 6.682 and 2019 Impact factor: 5.902, and the position it occupies in the ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2019 is 1/14 (Neuroimaging), 8/133 (Radiology, Nuclear Medicine) & Medical Imaging) and 33/271 (Neurosciences). This journal supposes a basic reference material since many consumer neuroscientists and neuroaesthetics experts use sources of this type to reference their work. This journal has a wide range of papers focused on consumer behaviour and consumer psychology by using the latest neuroscience techniques. • The results of the co-word analysis reveal how motor themes in this discipline are focused on reviews of the literature on consumer neuroscience, neuroaesthetics and neuromarketing, the psychology of brand perception, and the role of researchers when applying neuroscience to brand design. It has been observed that there are motor studies focused on experiments related to the appreciation of aesthetics and visual and packaging design. The results show that research on the perception of decision making through neuroscience techniques, as well as work to detect deception, is a recurrent and basic topic. It is worth mentioning that among all the studied work, the 3 neuroscience main techniques revealed in emerging or declining themes are: EEG, fMRI, and eye-tracking, and most of the emerging work is focused on the clinical study on individuals who visualize TV advertisements, commercial videos or film trailers, and their consumer choices. The loss of effectiveness of advertising forces marketers to seek new tools to help them better understand the processing of information and consumer behaviour, for this reason, perhaps many of the works are focused on audiovisual content [72] , since it may be more interesting to capture the emotion and feelings of the viewer and pay attention to the various stimuli that occur in different contexts during animated sequences. This paper has allowed us to present the evolution of neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and consumer neuroscience during the last decade. Through the analysis of 50 HCPs, we highlighted the most remarkable authors, institutions, sources, and countries, as well as the most relevant documents, references, and driving forces or emerging or declining issues. The applicability and practicality of the present study should be remarked since it is a sample of information that is relevant to help understand and identify the academic network, composition, and structure of the past and present in the field of neuromarketing, and neuroaesthetics. This work acts as a frame of reference or a common indicator for people interested in the field of neuroesthetics, consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing when it comes to know with whom to research with, where to research, where to publish, which groups to collaborate with or what trends to research on, among others. This work enables new future research lines such as studying the impact of neuromarketing, and neuroaesthetics research development through other bibliometric indicators, measuring national and international scientific collaboration as well as future work centred within the current scientific production through the analysis of altmetrics [73] to evaluate the impact of the research work in the digital media ecosystems. The New Science of Consumer Behavior. Society The Challenges of Interdisciplinary Epistemology in Neuroaesthetics Consumer Neuroscience Techniques in Advertising Research: A Bibliometric Citation Analysis Neuromarketing as a strategic tool for predicting how Instagramers have an influence on the personal identity of adolescents and young people in Spain Consumer neuroscience: Assessing the brain response to marketing stimuli using electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye tracking Subliminal Advertising, and Hotel Selection: An EEG Study. Australas. Mark Progress and Promise in Neuroaesthetics Neuroaesthetics and the Trouble with Beauty Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Understanding in Advertising: A Bibliometric Analysis What is 'neuromarketing'? A discussion and agenda for future research Neuroaesthetics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience A Review of Studies on Neuromarketing: Practical Results, Techniques, Contributions and Limitations A Neuroaesthetic Approach to the Search of Beauty From the Consumer's Perspective In search of aesthetics in consumer marketing: An examination of aesthetic stimuli from the philosophy of art and the psychology of art A Farewell to Art: Aesthetics as a Topic in Psychology and Neuroscience Characterizing the concept of citation classics through H-index Introducing Citation Classics: The Human Side of Scientific Reports An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output Big data and social media: A scientometrics analysis Global trends in infectious diseases of swine SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field On the h-index, the size of the Hirsch core and Jin's A-index New Developments Related to the Hirsch Index Robert Fairthorne and the empirical power laws Ten citation classics from the New Zealand medical journal Citation classics in suicide and life threatening behavior: A research note Identifying Citation Classics in Fuzzy Decision Making Field Using the Concept of H-Classics H-classic: A new method to identify classic articles in Implant Dentistry, Periodontics, and Oral Surgery. 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El Prof Exploring machine learning: A bibliometric general approach using SciMAT Mapping the institutional collaboration network of strategic management research Theory and practise of the g-index Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of theh index using data from biomedicine A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields Loess: A nonparametric, graphical tool for depicting relationships between variables Academic Ranking of World Universities Quacquarelli Symonds QS World University Rankings The World Bank Annual Report 2020 Gross Domestic Product: An Economy's All World Economic Outlook Database The Sankey Diagram in Energy and Material Flow Management Neuromarketing: The hope and hype of neuroimaging in business Facial expression recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks: Coping with few data and the training sample order The consumer psychology of brands Aesthetic package design: A behavioral, neural, and psychological investigation Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities Neuroaesthetics: A Coming of Age Story Branding the brain: A critical review and outlook Multisensory design: Reaching out to touch the consumer Neural Correlates of Behavioral Preference for Culturally Familiar Drinks Neural Predictors of Purchases Neural Correlates of Beauty Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data? Brain correlates of aesthetic judgment of beauty A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments Neuroanatomical correlates of aesthetic preference for paintings Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry Multiple authorship: Issues and recommendations ¿Tiene sentido limitar la coautoría científica? No existe inflación de autores en Ciencias Sociales y Educación en España Evaluación de las respuestas emocionales a la publicidad televisiva desde el Neuromarketing Altmetrics: New indicators for scientific communication in Web 2.0. Comunicar The authors declare no conflict of interest. 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