Information Quantitative Analysis on Psychological Research

Abstract:

With the fast development of the theories and techniques in information science in recent years, a variety of new methods have been used to help scholars in other fields manage the corresponding knowledge. This paper applied the research methods of information science to psychology to analyze the literature in psychology cited by ISI Web of Knowledge, then got a better understanding of psychology science. In order to understand the dynamics of psychology science, we conducted a quantitative analysis based on 8137 articles cited by SCI or SSCI, and used CiteSpace II to visualize the trends and patterns in the scientific literatures. In the end, the authors drew the following conclusions: (1) among all the individual authors, Cohen J and Seligman MEP share the highest citation times; (2) publications like Positive Psychology - An Introduction, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences have ranked first in the cited papers; (3) community psychology, clinical psychology, behavior, personality, model, self-are the hot areas and the frontier fields in psychology research.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 610)
• Pages: 680-685
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.610.680
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Cong Jing Ren, Yang Liu*
• Keywords: CiteSpace II, Information Quantitative Analysis, Information Theory, Interdisciplinary Research, Psychology, Statistics

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