Following the tracks of an emerging area: bibliometric analysis of Latin American Political Psychology in the 2000-2010 period

LUCILA POLO; JUAN CARLOS GODOY; DEBORA IMHOFF; SILVINA BRUSSINO

Revista Universitas Psychologica

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Lugar: Bogota; Año: 2014 vol. 13 p. 15 - 25

1657-9267

The purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric study on contemporary Political Psychology in Latin America. This task is vitally important because there are no accurate studies that make it possible to assess the development and gradual consolidation of this field in the region. For this purpose, a search of articles published within a ten-year period (between 2000 and 2010), available in several databases: PsycARTICLES (APA, American Psychological Association), Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO), ScienceDirect (Elsevier), Redalyc, Scielo and Dialnet, was carried out using certain previously defined descriptors. Results show a steady growth of the field in the region, with a greater number of publications in 2010. As regards the countries with the greatest number of publications, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, they coincide with the place to which the most productive institutions belong. In turn, the most productive authors of the decade are Argentine. With regard to the most productive journals, two of them are Spanish and one is Brazilian. Finally, a tendency towards individual work, with low levels of collaboration among researchers, is observed. Based on these results, we analyze the current place that Political Psychology has as a disciplinary field in Latin America.INDEXACIONES: Social Sciences Citation Index, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, DOAJ, SciELO, PePSIC, CLASE, Latindex, PSICODOC, Dialnet, Redalyc