Unfamiliarity breeds disdain: Comment on department chairmen's ratings of psychological journals.

Comments on data from K. C. Mace and H. D. Warner (1973) indicating that a substantial number of psychology department chairmen rated the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and the Journal of Educational Psychology as poor or just adequate. The validity of the ratings may have been affected by rater familiarity with the journals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)