INVESTIGADORES
GODOY Juan Carlos
artículos
Título:
Following the tracks of an emerging area: bibliometric analysis of Latin American Political Psychology in the 2000-2010 period
Autor/es:
LUCILA POLO; JUAN CARLOS GODOY; DEBORA IMHOFF; SILVINA BRUSSINO
Revista:
Universitas Psychologica
Editorial:
UP
Referencias:
Lugar: Bogota; Año: 2014
ISSN:
1657-9267
Resumen:
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