Which are the "best" cities for psychology research worldwide?

Abstract

Which are the "best" cities for psychology research worldwide?Bornmann, L.; Leydesdorff, L.A.; Krampen, G. Published in:Europe's Journal of Psychology DOI:10.5964/ejop.v8i4.482 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Bornmann, L., Leydesdorff, L., & Krampen, G. (2012). Which are the "best" cities for psychology research worldwide? Europe's Journal of Psychology, 8(4), 535-546. DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v8i4.482 General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractWe present scientometric results about worldwide centers of excellence in psychology. Based on Web of Science data, scientific excellence can be identified for cities from where highly-cited papers originate. Data refer to all psychology articles published in 2007 which are documented in the Social Science Citation Index and to their citation frequencies from 2007 to May 2011. 218 cities are visualized with an article output of at least 50 in 2007. Statistical z tests are used for the evaluation of the degree to which an observed number of top-cited papers (top-10%) for a city differs from the number expected on the basis of randomness in the selection of papers. The map points at excellence centers in cities at the East and West Coast of the USA as well as in Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and Taiwan. These results indicate that highly-cited psychological research articles come from the Anglo-American countries and some of the non-English European countries in which the number of English-language publications has increased during the last decades. Implications of the results for the publication strategies of psychologists in non-English speaking countries are discussed as well as the neccessity to care for qualitative criteria in evaluations in addition to quantitative, scientometric criteria.

International coauthorship relations in the Social Sciences Citation Index: Is internationalization leading the Network?

“…In addition, one can expect developments such as international collaboration to be very different both in the origins and in the consequences among the various disciplines in the social sciences (Wagner, ). Psychology, for example, can be considered as a “Western”‐type science more than economics (Bornmann, Leydesdorff, & Krampen, ). Furthermore, one can expect that the most frequently cited papers are unevenly distributed among world regions (Bornmann & Leydesdorff, ).…”

Scientometric trend analyses of publications on the history of psychology: Is psychology becoming an unhistorical science?

“…for Spain: Carpintero et al 2010; Lafuente and Herrero 2003; for the German-speaking countries: Schui et al 2014) and related international comparisons (e.g., Bornmann et al 2012; Krampen and Montada 1998), the historiography of special topics of psychological research (e.g., Simonton 2014) and special epochs of psychology (see, e.g., Green et al 2013, 2104, 2015), scientometric contributions to evaluative topics (e.g., Krampen 2008), whereas methodological issues of scientometrics are rarely brought into focus (e.g., Krampen 2008; Simonton 2006). Thus, this is a fruitful area for research cooperation of expert scientometricians and psychologists, which can contribute to the objective to give again “history of psychology (…) an impact” (Pettit and Davidson 2014, p. 709) within psychology and in its neighboring sciences.…”