The window on psychology's literature
A history of psychological abstracts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8720549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludy T Benjamin (corresponding author), Gary R Vandenbos (0000-0001-8393-5917, American Psychological Association) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 941-954 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0003-066x.61.9.941 |
| PMID | 17154720 |
| OpenAlex | W1969124249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
With the rapid expansion of scientific information at the end of the 19th century, disciplines sought ways to keep their members abreast of the relevant research. Those pressures were felt in the science of psychology in the United States, where psychologists developed a bibliographic aid, The Psychological Index, in 1895 only a little more than a decade after G. Stanley Hall opened America's first psychology laboratory. The Index was useful but was only a listing of titles. More information was needed, which led to the development of a journal of abstracts, first published in 1927. This article traces the history of Psychological Abstracts from its origins in the Index to the evolution of the American Psychological Association's electronic information system known as PsycINFO, of which Psychological Abstracts has become an outmoded part. Nevertheless, for most of its 80 years, Psychological Abstracts was psychology's window on the world of research
Cognition · Consulting psychology · Critical psychology · Experimental psychology · History of psychology · Index (typography · Library science · Listing (finance · MEDLINE · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychological research · Psychological science · PsycINFO · Scientific communication · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Psychology · Applied Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2018 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |