The Psych Safety Knowledge Map

We’re super excited to announce that explore.psychsafety.com is now generally available! 

For a long time now, we’ve been thinking about a way to make our nearly 300 psychsafety.com articles more easily accessible and searchable in an organic way. Rather than go to the typical search bar and type in a keyword, we wanted a way that folks could actually explore concepts such as power, voice, and organisational ecological thinking without knowing exactly what they wanted to find before they did so. 

This is that tool. Head to explore.psychsafety.com and you’ll find a visual map of all our articles, plus a few from our partner websites. You can filter by theme and author, search by keyword, find connecting articles and topics, and head over to read the article from the map itself.

The line thickness indicates strength of connection, whilst the size of a node indicates how connected it is. And the colours represent the themes involved in that piece. Dotted lines around a node indicate that it’s a “hub” article. 

If you’re feeling lucky, just click “Surprise me” on the top bar, and you’ll explore a random node and its connections.

At the bottom of all our articles, you’ll also find a panel that will take you to the knowledge map and explore its relationships with other nodes in the network.

And if you’re interested in the published academic literature, we’ve got your back too! 

If you click on “Papers” at the top, you’ll be presented with a different map showing the core influential papers in the multi-disciplinary field of psychological safety. It includes foundational papers, primary research, meta-analyses, and more.

Then click on a paper, and you’ll not only see its connections to other papers, but the panel will give you a summary of the piece, a Harvard-style citation, related psychsafety.com articles, and more. Plus you’ll find a link to the actual paper, together with an indication of whether the paper is accessible or behind a journal paywall.

Inbound links work to themes, (e.g. https://explore.psychsafety.com/?node=calculus), so you can also share a node link, theme, or author (e.g. Amy Edmondson) with other people.

Explore.psychsafety.com is still in beta, and we’re always ironing out bugs, adding new features, and building up the papers database, so if you find a bug, would like to suggest a feature or another paper to be added, let us know! We also have an open source version available on GitHub (using classic films as data) so that you can create your own Knowledge Maps. 

This video walks you through the functionality of the map, including exploring, searching, and providing feedback too.

Enjoy!