Ratings of psychology journals.

48 psychology department chairpersons rated 64 prominent psychology journals as either adequate, good, or excellent. There was enough variability in ratings to suggest that there is not complete agreement among chairpersons as to the quality of psychology journals. This may be a reflection of departmental orientation or personal differences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ratings of psychology journals by members of the Canadian Psychological Association.

Analysis of Canadian ratings indicates similarities with journal rankings from the American Psychological Association survey sample. Two Canadian psychology journals were ranked in the top 10. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ratings of psychology journals by members of the American Psychological Association.

In a survey of 863 members of the American Psychological Association it was found that the journals which ranked among the top 10 differed for people involved in different types of work and those with different interests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Citation analysis of psychology journals.

Conducted a citation analysis of 57 psychology journals. Total citations to articles published in each journal in 1972 and 1973 were counted from a sample of pages (10%) in the Social Science Citation Index. Journals were rank ordered according to citation frequency per articles published in each journal during the 2-yr period. Mean citation rate per published article was .9. Spearman rank correlations between the rank order based on citations per article and the rank orders of the same journals determined by subjective evaluation in 2 previous studies by D. Koulak and H. J. Keselman (1975) and K. C. Mace and H. D. Warner (1973) were .39 and .56, respectively. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ratings of journals by and for personality psychologists.

Rank ordered reference sources used by the authors selected by editors of the Annual Review of Psychology to cover the field of personality during 1970–1976 and found the assessment to be more reliable than D. Koulack and H. J. Keselman's (see record 1976-24649-001) ratings based on responses of American Psychological Association members. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ratings of psychological journals by and for industrial-organizational psychologists.

Studied the reference sources used by selected authors covering topics in the industrial-organizational field which appeared in 9 contributions in the Annual Review of Psychology (ARP) in the years 1970 to 1976. Seven of these are compared with rank orders in the 1950's and 1960's based on available data. Consumer and engineering psychology are considered separately and are not included in the tabulated data. Also included is a comparison of the ARP rank orders with the study of D. Koulack and H. Keselman (see record 1976-24649-001). This study for the industrial area is shown to be 16 yrs behind the times as far as contemporary industrial-organizational psychology is concerned. The source materials based on the ARP yield significant information concerning the status and changing trends of the field and can serve as a frame of reference for thinking about and carrying out investigations in the field. (28 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On the citation analysis of psychology journals.

Comments that M. J. White and K. G. White (see record 1978-01848-001) neglected to cite E. Garfield's (1975) citation study of psychology and behavior journals, a very important reference relevant to their work on the citation analysis of psychology journals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Assessment of journals in social science psychology.

Examines journal orderings by citations for core journals in 8 areas using both the Social Science Citation Index ratios and the proportion of citations each journal received in its corresponding American Psychological Association journal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Epistemic progress and journal page limitations: A proposal for increasing the base rate of manuscript acceptance in psychology journals.

Proposes that the requirement of publication and submission fees would (1) minimize the amount of extraneous information and speculation in journal articles and (2) encourage the use of brief (2–3 page) reports. Also, additional pages could be allocated for psychological research, and researchers would be able to keep abreast of a greater number of findings and ideas in less time, more efficiently, and without additional financial burdens for journal publishers or subscribers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Family psychology: The journal, the field.

This is the first part of a two-part "Editor's Introduction" to the Journal of Family Psychology. This part will introduce the readers to the Journal and will deal with its development, definition, mission, structure, and operating procedures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The psychology of social impact.

Proposes a theory of social impact specifying the effect of other persons on an individual. According to the theory, when other people are the source of impact and the individual is the target, impact should be a multiplicative function of the strength, immediacy, and number of other people. Furthermore, impact should take the form of a power function, with the marginal effect of the Nth other person being less than that of the (N–2)th. When other people stand with the individual as the target of forces from outside the group, impact should be divided such that the resultant is an inverse power function of the strength, immediacy, and number of persons standing together. The author reviews relevant evidence from research on conformity and imitation, stage fright and embarrassment, news interest, bystander intervention, tipping, inquiring for Christ, productivity in groups, and crowding in rats. (27 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Examining race and culture in psychology journals: The case of forensic psychology.

Scholars have argued that racial-cultural issues should be given more attention in psychological research. The American Psychological Association (APA) has instituted guidelines and policies about how to include race and culture in research, theory, and practice. Members of racial minority groups are overrepresented in populations served by forensic psychologists. This article reviews content analyses of racial-cultural issues in psychology and presents a content analysis of the treatment of race and culture in 7 forensic psychology journals between 1998 and 2003. Results indicate that less than 10% of the empirical articles addressed issues of race or culture with any depth and that the majority of the articles used a cultural deprivation paradigm. Results and recommendations for practice and future study are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of An objective psychology of music.

Reviews the book An objective psychology of music by (see record 1954-00590-000). The reviewer notes that this book is a noteworthy addition to the psychology of music, especially for classroom use with the undergraduate student. Its style is clear and simple, its coverage is unusually comprehensive, and its range is wide. It will truly facilitate the learning process for the student, an advantage which has often been lacking in this field. The psychology of music demands an understanding of two very different disciplines, one of them a science, the other an art. The vocabulary and style employed by the artist has often proved baffling to the scientist, and vice versa. Lundin has shown a special talent as an interpreter, and has made his material thoroughly clear to both. His occasional oversimplifications will prove justifiable in terms of the student who seeks competency in two fields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

An empirical method for determining core psychology journals.

Proposes a technique that yields a "discipline impact factor" (DIF) that measures the number of times a journal is cited in the core literature of a discipline, rather than in the scientific literature in its entirety. The advantage of the DIF method is that it empirically establishes a core list rather than using an a priori or more arbitrary means to determine the limits of what constitutes a core journal. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A comparison of the various ratings of psychology journals.

Synthesizes the ratings of psychology journals conducted by A. R. Buss and J. R. McDermott (1976), D. Koulack and H. J. Keselman (see record 1976-24649-001), J. R. Levin and T. R. Kratochwill (1976), K. C. Mace and H. D. Warner (1973), and M. J. White and K. G. White (see record 1978-01848-001). Each ratings list provides information of a different sort, and they all underestimate the importance of specialty journals to psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations.

In the light of continuing debate over the applications of significance testing in psychology journals and following the publication of J. Cohen's (1994) article, the Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) convened a committee called the Task Force on Statistical Interference (TFSI) whose charge was "to elucidate some of the controversial issues surrounding applications of statistics including significance testing and its alternatives; alternative underlying models and data transformation; and newer methods made possible by powerful computers" (BSA, personal communication, February 28, 1996). After extensive discussion, the BSA recommended that publishing an article in American Psychologist, as a way to initiate discussion in the field about changes in current practices of data analysis and reporting may be appropriate. This report follows that request. Following each guideline are comments, explanations, or elaborations assembled by L. Wilkinson for the task force and under its review. The report is concerned with the use of statistical methods only and is not meant as an assessment of research methods in general. The title and format of the report are adapted from an article by J. C. Bailar and F. Mosteller (1988). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A comparison of some objective measures of expectancy.

4 measures of expectancy were compared. "Similarities of results in the four groups indicate that all four methods are tending to measure the same thing… There appears to be a close relationship between previous training in a specific situation and expectations for future performance." 26 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Advent of objective measures of the transference concept.

Reviews research on measurement of transference that has used Q-sort questionnaires and psychotherapy process measures. The 1st type of measure, although reliable, has lacked validity information. The newer psychotherapy process measures, such as the 1st author's (1976) core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method, provide evidence for their reliability and validity. A study of 8 patients showed considerable comparability between data from the CCRT method and operationalized propositions from 9 of Freud's observations about transference, which concerned such issues as the uniqueness, origins, and consistency of the transference pattern. The CCRT is compared with other methods, and methodological issues and proposals that could further advance research on transference are examined. (61 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Representation of women on the editorial boards of psychology journals.

In 1977, women held 17.8% of editorial appointments across a sample of 14 psychology journals, compared with only 6.8% in 1972. The sex ratio of journal editors in 1977 approximated that of senior authors publishing in the same journals. Editorial appointment serves as a form of recognition for research achievement. In this context it is possible that different criteria have been used in recruiting men and women to editorial boards. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)