Abstract

The neuroscientific approach to the emotion has been termed affective neuroscience. This multidisciplinary approach has emerged as an influential source of data and theory for the basic, clinical and applied sciences. The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis over the scientific production in the affective neuroscience field. As in most scientific areas, the scientific productivity in affective neuroscience is lead by North American research centers. Latin-American research in the field is marginal. This asymmetrical observation is a warning to the Latin-American researchers as well as an incentive to improve the scientific productivity in the affective neuroscience field.