[Analysis of the production of psychology professors in Spain in journal articles of the Web of Science].

Análisis de la producción de los profesores funcionarios de psicología en España en artículos de revistas de la Web of Science.

Publisher: Colegio Oficial de Psicológicas de Asturias Country of Publication: Spain NLM ID: 101189384 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0214-9915 (Print) Linking ISSN: 02149915 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psicothema Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: Oviedo, Spain : Colegio Oficial de Psicológicas de Asturias

Bibliometrics* ; Psychology*; Databases, Bibliographic/*statistics & numerical data ; Faculty/*statistics & numerical data; Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data ; Efficiency ; Retrospective Studies ; Spain

The present work is a descriptive study by means of document analysis that aims to make the analysis of the more productive professors of psychology in Spain trough indexed Web of Science journal articles. The sample was conformed of the first one hundred more productive professors of each one of the six academic areas of Spanish Psychology. A total of 85492 records were analyzed of which 8770 correspond to the 610 analyzed professors. The main results are that from the more productive professors ranking, six belong to the Psychobiology area and only 4 belong to different areas. With respect to the average proportion of articles by Professor of the six areas of psychology, it was found that that range of the proportion oscillates between 25 and 6. The journal Psicothema maintains the most frequency of records among the professors of the sample since they are 1461 which represents a 17% of the total. Finally, we discuss the results and mentioned the implications in the professor's evaluation.

Comment in: Psicothema. 2011 Apr;23(2):267-73.. (PMID: 21504680)

Date Created: 20101104 Date Completed: 20110208 Latest Revision: 20110922

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