Psychology Article Count Tables (beta version)

UPDATE: These tables were updated on 1 June 2012 to using pubications from 2008-2012. The original tables, based on articles from 2000-2009, can be found here.

These tables give the share of articles published in leading psychology journals. For objectivity, leading journals were considered those categorised as A* in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. Specifically, tables show the number of journal articles in ERA A* psychology journals. Articles with multiple affiliations are shared over affiliations to ensure that each article receives and overall weight of 1. Article counts were calculated from Web of Science searches for articles published since 2008 (relevant in the UK as the start of the REF period.

There are three sets of tables. The first set ranks countries by their per-capita adjusted contribution to the top journals. The second set ranks universities by their (unadjusted) contribution to the top journals. The third set ranks UK universities by their per-academic contribution to the top journals.

World Psychology by Contry

• Overall article count by country (population adjusted) Counts are summed over all of the A* journals in the ERA "1701 Psychology" category. This table shows, for example, that the USA published about 10,600 articles or 49% of all of the A* ERA psychology journal articles. Larger countries might be expected to publish more. This table adjusts for population. For example, although the USA published most articles, the USA ranks fifth (after the Netherlands, UK, Israel, and Canada) in terms of the number of articles per capita.
• Article count by country for each journal (population adjusted) The tables on this page show article counts separately for each of the journals in the analysis (scroll down to see other journals.) For example, the USA contributes 30.3% of articles in Accident Analysis and Prevention. However, per capita, Norway publishes the most articles in this journal.

Unadjusted Tables

• Overall article count by country
• Article count by country for each journal

World Psychology by University

• Overall article count by university This table shows, for example, that Harvard University published 300 articles in A* psychology journals, 1.37% of the total number of A* articles published. University names are taken from the head of C1 field from each Web of Science record. Some affiliations may need to be merged. For example, although "Harvard Univ" appears with 682 articles, other references to "Harvard" appear lower in the table (e.g., "Harvard Med Sch", "Harvard Grad Sch Educ", and "Harvard Sch Publ Hlth") and should perhaps be merged. I suspect this would make little difference to the ranking.
• Article count by university for each journal These tables show article counts separately for each of the journals in the analysis. Only universities ranking 100th or higher are listed. By comparing rankings over journals, the relative strengths of a university can be estimated.

Note: Neither of these tables are adjusted for the number of the psychologists in the university because I don't have this information for all departments.

UK Psychology by University

These tables present only UK universities and thus contain a subset of information in the World Psychology by University tables.

• Overall article count by university (UK only, size adjusted) This table adjusts for the number of psychologists in each university, as reported in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. In this table, and the others, UK university names have been hand coded to ensure that affiliations are correct. This table, I think, comes closest to ranking departments by the quality of their research.
• Article count by university for each journal (UK only, size adjusted)

Unadjusted Tables

These tables contain a subset of the information in the above two tables. They are not adjusted for number of academics and are ranked only on the overall number of articles.

• Overall article count by university (UK only)
• Article count by university for each journal (UK only)

These tables were prepared by Neil Stewart using R and Perl. All comments and corrections most welcome. Please e-mail comments or corrections to Neil.Stewart@warwick.ac.uk.