The h index of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) through journal articles included in the Web of Science database
The current descriptive study analyzes the h index of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1940 to the present. The h index is calculated from the number of articles published in journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database and the citations received by the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-UACJ |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:33715423006 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=33715423006 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Psicología The h index Descriptive study The presidents of the APA American Psychological Association |
| Sumario: | The current descriptive study analyzes the h index of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1940 to the present. The h index is calculated from the number of articles published in journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database and the citations received by the articles in the same database. There was no established period of time for the search and thus, all the results included in the WOS were analyzed. The total number of results was of 16 676 from which 3 734 were of the presidents of the APA. The results are shown as a rank-ordered list. It was found that Albert Bandura and Alan Kazdin are the presidents with the highest h indexes and that there is an important difference between those and the rest. The results of the study lead to speculate that the productivity in scientific articles was not the most important criterion to take into account for the election of the presidents in the history of the APA. |
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