How the launch of a new journal in 1904 may have changed the relationship between psychology and philosophy.

Abstract

Recent research has used networks of scholarly journal articles to investigate the intellectual structure of the discipline of psychology from the later 1880s to the early 1920s. Here, instead, we examined the networks of philosophical journals that were closely aligned with psychology-The Monist, Philosophical Review, and The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods-between 1890 and 1913. We discovered that, although the first 2 of these journals published a great deal of psychologically relevant material up to 1903, material of that sort seemed to evaporate after the launch of the third journal in 1904. It was not so much that material migrated from the old journals to the new one. It was rather that the new journal was able to attract new trends in American philosophical psychology, while interest in traditional approaches seemed to dry up. The result was that psychology moved into a new and expansive era, while America philosophy was left somewhat destabilized as it attempted to reconfigure its disciplinary identity. (PsycINFO Database Record

Psychological experiments on student self-government: The early impact of Wilhelm Mann’s work in Chile and the German Empire.

“…Recently, studies of the digital history of psychology have emerged where the main resource are databases such as PsycINFO, JSTOR, Google Books, American Library Association, Scripta Paedagogica, and others in which ancient or current texts can be found (Burman, 2018a(Burman, , 2018bGreen, 2016Green, , 2018Sula, 2013). 8 With digitized historical archives in optical character recognition (OCR) technology is possible to study the scientific communication networks between communities of authors and institutions through citations, as it has been done recently in sociobibliometric studies in psychology and social sciences (Green, 2016;Green & Feinerer, 2017;Hitchcock, 2013;Millán et al, 2022;Pettit, 2019;Tur-Porcar et al, 2018).…”

Reevaluating the initial impact of John Broadus Watson on American psychology: The necessity of comparative parameters

“…As a first step, we established a comparative baseline for quantifying the references to Watson and the other eight psychologists between 1903 and 1923, a decade before and after the publication of the Manifesto, in eight relevant journals of the time: Psychological Bulletin ; Psychological Review ; The American Journal of Psychology ; Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods —which changed its name to Journal of Philosophy ; Mind ; The Monist ; The Philosophical Review ; and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . These journals were among the main vehicles for the publication of American psychological research at the time (Green & Feinerer, , , ; Green, Feinerer, & Burman, ; ; Osier & Wozniak, ). Moreover, apart from its representativeness, each journal had to be active during the whole period under investigation, which led us to exclude other important journals, such as the Journal of Abnormal Psychology , the Journal of Educational Psychology , and the Journal of Animal Behavior , which started in 1906, 1910, and 1911, respectively…”

Environmental Psychology through the study of the journal MACH-Psyecology. Applying Network Analysis to scientific production

“…Additionally, in recent years, scholars have considered Network Analysis as a useful tool to analyse the history of Psychology as well as its scientific production through a bibliometric perspective. Therefore, several studies have analysed, among other themes, the early ages of Psychology (Green & Feinerer, 2017;Green, Feinerer & Burman, 2015), the evolution of the discipline (Burman, 2018;Flis & van Eck, 2017;Green, 2016), the relation between personality and social psychology (Lanning, 2017), or the relationship between social, personality and abnormal psychology (Davidson, 2018). These studies were mostly carried out by analysing the production of specific journals or databases such as Psychological Review (Green, Feinerer & Burman, 2015) the Journal of Citation Reports (Burman, 2018) or the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (Davidson, 2018).…”