García Martínez Ana Teresa, Guerrero Bote Vicente P, Vargas Quesada Benjamín, Moya Anegón Félix
Departamento de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Psicothema. 2008 Aug;20(3):465-73.
This work aims to reveal some aspects of the scientific domain of Psychology, in the context of the internationally visible Spanish science in the databases of the Citation Index of The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which is represented by a map. We used the methodology of cocitation of thematic categories (JCR-Thompson Scientific), with which we obtained a representation of the scientific activity. The resulting map allowed us to focus on the area of Psychology, whose representation acts as database for the analysis of this discipline in the scientific field with international visibility. This study offers an empirical view of the underlying structure of Spanish Psychology. This is important because most scientists have an intuitive idea of this structure, but this may or may not be real. This way, we present a global vision of the entire discipline that favours its objective analysis as a function of scientists' behaviour as it affects their patterns of communication through the established formal channels.
这项工作旨在揭示心理学科学领域的一些方面，这是在科学信息研究所（ISI）的引文索引数据库中具有国际影响力的西班牙科学背景下进行的，该背景由一张地图呈现。我们采用了主题类别共引方法（JCR - 汤姆森科学），借此获得了科学活动的一种呈现方式。生成的地图使我们能够聚焦于心理学领域，其呈现方式作为一个数据库，用于分析该学科在具有国际影响力的科学领域中的情况。本研究提供了对西班牙心理学潜在结构的实证性观点。这很重要，因为大多数科学家对这种结构有直观的认识，但这种认识可能是真实的，也可能并非如此。通过这种方式，我们呈现了整个学科的全局视野，有利于根据科学家的行为对其进行客观分析，因为科学家的行为会影响他们通过既定正式渠道的交流模式。
