Dignity Literature Atlas
A field map of the academic literature on dignity & respect — IDinsight Dignity Initiative
The corpus by primary discipline. Disciplines come from OpenAlex topic fields where a work was matched, otherwise a title/venue heuristic. This updates the impressionistic disciplinary picture in the 2022 Research Agenda slides with the actual distribution of the assembled literature.
Each empirical work is classified by stage of the research cycle, following Evan Lieberman's (2016) framework Can the Biomedical Research Cycle be a Model for Political Science? — the same framework used in the 2022 Research Agenda. Stages run left-to-right from early (conceptual) to late (intervention/causal). The pattern confirms the agenda's observation of gaps in the latter part of the cycle: the field is rich in concept, with comparatively little explanation and causal/interventional evidence. (Works that are non-empirical or lack an abstract are left unclassified.)
Each work is classified against the five research themes of the Dignity Research Agenda Consensus Statement (Wein & Attendees, 2022). A work can address more than one theme. The shape confirms the agenda's own diagnosis: the field is concentrated on defining dignity and describing how it operates, while measurement remains the thinnest theme and intervention-testing is still modest.
Where the research is produced versus where it is conducted. Researcher location uses author institutional affiliations (OpenAlex-matched works); study geography is detected from titles and abstracts. The gap between the two maps is itself a finding about whose institutions study whom.
Author institutional affiliations
Study settings in titles & abstracts