Abstract

GARCIA MARTINEZ, ANA TERESA; GUERRERO BOTE, VICENTE; VARGAS QUESADA, BENJAMÍN  and  MOYA-ANEGON, FÉLIX. PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MAP OF SCIENCE IN IBERO AMERICA. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2008, vol.40, n.3, pp.409-424. ISSN 0120-0534.

ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to compare the scientific representation of Psychology in the different Latin-American countries. We use a methodology of subject categories cocitation (JCR-Thomsom Cia, Subject Category Listing) which facilitates the representation of the scientific activity, the resulting maps permit us to focus on the Psychology Area, whose representation will serve as information base for the analysis of the discipline in each country scope, with international visibility. This is an empirical view of the underling structure in the Psychology in the countries studied and this is interesting since the majority of scientist have an intuitive idea of this structure which may or may not correspond to reality. Nevertheless our representation show an objective global view based on the scientist formal communication behavior. With this model an objective comparison of the Psychology research in the eight most important Latin-American countries is carried out.

Keywords : scientific communication; Latin American psychology; sciences; Web of Knowledge.

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