[Analysis of the production of psychology professors in Spain in journal articles of the Web of Science].
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.
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (México), Facultad de Psicología, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. jolivas@uacj.mx
José A
JA
Olivas-Ávila
Bertha
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Musi-Lechuga
D015706:Bibliometrics; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004526:Efficiency; D005178:Faculty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011584:Psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain