BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL NETWORK IN 1950 AND IN 1960

THE FLOW OF INFORMATION EXCHANGE AMONG 21 PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNALS, AS INDEXED BY RECIPROCAL CITATION FREQUENCIES, WAS STUDIED AS A COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION THEORY AND OTHER STATISTICS. JOURNALS BEING CITED WERE TREATED AS SOURCES OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE NETWORK AND JO...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1967-09, Vol.22 (9), p.778-791
Main Authors: XHIGNESSE, LOUIS V, OSGOOD, CHARLES E
Format: Article
Language:English
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Psychology
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Summary:THE FLOW OF INFORMATION EXCHANGE AMONG 21 PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNALS, AS INDEXED BY RECIPROCAL CITATION FREQUENCIES, WAS STUDIED AS A COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION THEORY AND OTHER STATISTICS. JOURNALS BEING CITED WERE TREATED AS SOURCES OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE NETWORK AND JOURNALS DOING THE CITING WERE TREATED AS DESTINATIONS OF INFORMATION. THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THIS NETWORK, FOR 1959 AND 1960, WAS IN TERMS OF SUCH MEASURES AS: TRAFFIC (NUMBER OF MESSAGES EXCHANGED), CONGRUENCE (CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SOURCE AND DESTINATION PROBABILITIES), FEEDING VS. STORING FUNCTIONS (RATIOS OF BEING CITED TO CITING), SELF-FEEDING (SELF-CITATION OF JOURNALS), SOURCE AND DESTINATION BALANCES (ENTROPY MEASURES, H, FOR BEING CITED AND CITING ACROSS THE NETWORK), AND NETWORK ORGANIZATION (CONDITIONED PREDICTABILITY OF DESTINATION JOURNAL GIVEN SOURCE JOURNAL). DISTANCE MEASURES WERE APPLIED TO CHARACTERIZE THE STRUCTURE OF THE NETWORK (WHICH JOURNALS ARE CLOSE TO OTHERS IN TERMS OF RECIPROCAL CITATION) IN BOTH 1950 AND 1960. THUMBNAIL SKETCHES OF THE FUNCTIONING OF EACH JOURNAL WITHIN THE NETWORK, IN TERMS OF THESE MEASURES, ARE PRESENTED.
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/h0024961