3.3.3. Studies Published Yearly within the Research Area Groups

The next stage of the work was an analysis of the number of studies published yearly, within the research area groups. This revealed that until 2017 computer science and related was the leading approach. However, since 2017, political sciences have become the main field of research in which studies on collective intelligence in policymaking are conducted. In recent years, the amount of research conducted in the field of computer science has clearly decreased, giving way to various types of social research. Changes in the amount of work published annually within the grouped research areas are shown in Figure 8.
