Cumulative and Career-Stage Citation Impact of Social-Personality Psychology Programs and Their Members

Nosek, Brian A.; Graham, Jesse; Lindner, Nicole M.; Kesebir, Selin; Hawkins, Carlee Beth; Hahn, Cheryl; Schmidt, Kathleen; Motyl, Matt; Joy-Gaba, Jennifer A.; Frazier, Rebecca S.; Tenney, Elizabeth R.

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“…This is reflected in the labeling of graduate programs: Of the major programs in social/personality in the United States and Canada listed in Nosek et al (2010) or the Social Psychology Network (2015), the majority (32 programs) include the label "social" without "personality." At 21 others, the terms are combined in a single area fused by ands, ampersands, hyphens, slashes, or (in one case) a vertical bar.…”

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What is the Relationship Between “Personality” and “Social” Psychologies? Network, Community, and Whole Text Analyses of The Structure of Contemporary Scholarship

Lanning

2017

Collabra: Psychology

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The structure of social/personality psychology, including the relationship between the areas of "social" and "personality," is empirically examined in a series of network, community, and text analyses. In a study of keywords, both attitudes and social cognition and group processes appear as communities; the role of personality is more diffuse. In a larger analysis of citations in the four primary journals in the combined social/personality area, personality appears as a large community which surrounds a well-defined core (the Five-Factor Model) but which lies on the periphery of social/personality psychology. Interpersonal relations and attachment are central in social/personality, and appear largely distinct from the study of groups. Attitudes and social cognition are broadly studied, but, in contrast with personality and interpersonal relations, are not structured around a simple core. These methods and results collectively inform the relationship between personality and social psychologies and provide an early step towards an empirical understanding of the structure of the discipline.Keywords: personality; network; scientometric; social psychology; methods; community How should the map of social-personality psychology be drawn? What are the relationships among its constituent methods, institutions, papers, scholars, and constructs? The question has implications for the psychology curriculum (How should personality and social psychologies be taught?), for the nature and evaluation of our research (Should a scholar who examines positive affect be asked to review a paper on extraversion?), and even for our selfconcepts (Should I call myself a social psychologist?). Yet our understanding of this terrain remains grounded more in anecdote and tradition than in data. In the present paper, I use diverse scientometric methods, including network, community, and text analysis, to provide an initial map of the combined field of social and personality psychology. Limitations of the work should be acknowledged at the outset: This effort provides only a contemporary snapshot of the field and not its evolution over time, it does not yet provide contextualize personality and social psychology in the region of other closely related areas of inquiry (such as developmental and cognitive psychologies), and it does not yet consider the extent to which the structure holds outside of prominent conferences and journals published in the United States. Despite these limitations, the methods form an initial toolbox for future study, and the results provide a coherent initial map of contemporary personality-social psychology. Perhaps equally importantly, the paper invites consideration of its central premise, i.e., that the structure of personality and social psychology -fields which take justifiable pride in their empirical achievements -is of consequence and can itself be studied empirically.

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What is the Relationship Between “Personality” and “Social” Psychologies? Network, Community, and Whole Text Analyses of The Structure of Contemporary Scholarship

Lanning

2017

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“…These measures distinguish researchers who may have produced a few very highly cited articles from those who have produced a larger number of more moderately cited articles, an aspect of a researcher's citation profile that is missed by the h-index. In this regard, we note that Nosek et al (2010) created a database in which one can compare his or her h-and e-indices to those of 611 faculty members from various social-personality psychology Ph.D. programs who received their Ph.D.s at the same time as the person doing the query. We hope that an analogous database will be created for the subarea of cognitive psychology.…”

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“…The number of citations that academic articles receive has become a well-accepted, objective measure for evaluating the impact (and likely the quality) of journals (Garfield, 1972), researchers, departments, programs, or institutions (Nosek et al, 2010;Rushton, 1984). A very high citation rate for a published article indicates that the research it reports has had a major impact in guiding the research reported in other articles in that field.…”

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Citation rates for experimental psychology articles published between 1950 and 2004: Top-cited articles in behavioral cognitive psychology

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From citation rates for over 85,000 articles published between 1950 and 2004 in 56 psychology journals, we identified a total of 500 behavioral cognitive psychology articles that ranked in the top 0.6 % in each half-decade, in terms of their mean citations per year using the Web of Science. Thirty nine of these articles were produced by 78 authors who authored three or more of them, and more than half were published by only five journals. The mean number of cites per year and the total number of citations necessary for an article to achieve various percentile rankings are reported for each journal. The mean number of citations necessary for an article published within each half-decade to rank at any given percentile has steadily increased from 1950 to 2004. Of the articles that we surveyed, 11 % had zero total citations, and 35 % received fewer than four total citations. Citations for post-1994 articles ranking in the 50th-75th and 90th-95th percentiles have generally continued to grow across each of their 3-year postpublication bins. For pre-1995 articles ranking in the 50th-75th and 90th-95th percentiles, citations peaked in the 4-to 6-or 7-to 9-year postpublication bins and decreased linearly thereafter, until asymptoting. In contrast, for the top-500 articles, (a) for pre-1980 articles, citations grew and peaked 10-18-year postpublication bins, and after a slight decrease began to linearly increase again; (b) for post-1979 articles, citations have continually increased across years in a nearly linear fashion. We also report changes in topics covered by the top-cited articles over the decades. Keywords Citations . Cognitive psychology . Impact factor IntroductionThe number of citations that academic articles receive has become a well-accepted, objective measure for evaluating the impact (and likely the quality) of journals (Garfield, 1972), researchers, departments, programs, or institutions (Nosek et al., 2010;Rushton, 1984). A very high citation rate for a published article indicates that the research it reports has had a major impact in guiding the research reported in other articles in that field. Hence, an academic institution or research unit that has published many highly cited articles is thought to provide an environment in which important, high-impact research can be conducted, making that institution a more desirable location for other scientists or prospective students looking to advance their careers. For a journal, highly cited articles directly affect the journal's impact factor, which can influence journal submissions, because researchers strive to publish their articles in the most prestigious, and hence widely read, journals. As for individual researchers, total citation counts are correlated with eminence in one's field, as measured by their ability to predict future Nobel laureates (Garfield & WelljamsDorof, 1992) and attainment of other scientific awards (Myers, 1970). Moreover, the citation rate for each of an individual researcher's articles is a key component in determining th...

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“…Finally, we illustrate use of the programs and conclude with future developments. Baron and Kenny's (1986) approach to mediation analysis is one of the most cited articles in the past 30 years in all of social/personality psychology (Nosek et al, 2010) and is often accompanied by a z test or CI based on Sobel's standard error (Sobel, 1982). In brief, the Baron and Kenny approach (see Figure 2) involves a series of models: (a) predict the dependent variable from the independent variable to establish that a relationship exists, (b) predict the mediator from the independent variable to establish path a, and (c) predict the dependent variable from both the independent variable and mediator simultaneously to establish path b.…”

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Two Cross-Platform Programs for Inferences and Interval Estimation About Indirect Effects in Mediational Models

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Biesanz

2016

Sage Open

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In this article, we describe two new programs that compute both p-values and confidence intervals (CI) for the indirect effect in mediational models, including (a) a p-value based on the partial posterior method, which we refer to as p 3Nconstitute a single p-value for the indirect effect while performing substantially better in terms of Type I and II error rates. Furthermore, we include a memory efficient computational algorithm for CI HB and CI MC that allows for precision beyond that in existing alternative implementations. The underlying programs can utilize multicore processors, and their performance is tested through a simulation study. Finally, the use of these programs is illustrated with an empirical example.

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Cumulative and Career-Stage Citation Impact of Social-Personality Psychology Programs and Their Members

Cited by 89 publications

References 67 publications

What is the Relationship Between “Personality” and “Social” Psychologies? Network, Community, and Whole Text Analyses of The Structure of Contemporary Scholarship

What is the Relationship Between “Personality” and “Social” Psychologies? Network, Community, and Whole Text Analyses of The Structure of Contemporary Scholarship

Citation rates for experimental psychology articles published between 1950 and 2004: Top-cited articles in behavioral cognitive psychology

Two Cross-Platform Programs for Inferences and Interval Estimation About Indirect Effects in Mediational Models

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