Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Psychol Med. 2011 Dec;41(12):2661-8. doi: 10.1017/S0033291711000821. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
Psychiatry and clinical psychology are the two dominant disciplines in mental health research, but the structure of scientific influence and information flow within and between them has never been mapped.
Citations among 96 of the highest impact psychiatry and clinical psychology journals were examined, based on 10 052 articles published in 2008. Network analysis explored patterns of influence between journal clusters.
Psychiatry journals tended to have greater influence than clinical psychology journals, and their influence was asymmetrical: clinical psychology journals cited psychiatry journals at a much higher rate than the reverse. Eight journal clusters were found, most dominated by a single discipline. Their citation network revealed an influential central cluster of 'core psychiatry' journals that had close affinities with a 'psychopharmacology' cluster. A group of 'core clinical psychology' journals was linked to a 'behavior therapy' cluster but both were subordinate to psychiatry journals. Clinical psychology journals were less integrated than psychiatry journals, and 'health psychology/behavioral medicine' and 'neuropsychology' clusters were relatively peripheral to the network.
Scientific publication in the mental health field is largely organized along disciplinary lines, and is to some degree hierarchical, with clinical psychology journals tending to be structurally subordinate to psychiatry journals.
精神病学和临床心理学是心理健康研究的两个主要学科，但它们之间以及内部的科学影响力结构和信息流从未被描绘过。
基于 2008 年发表的 10052 篇文章，对 96 种最有影响力的精神病学和临床心理学期刊之间的引文进行了研究。网络分析探讨了期刊集群之间的影响模式。
精神病学期刊的影响力往往大于临床心理学期刊，而且它们的影响力是不对称的：临床心理学期刊引用精神病学期刊的比例要高得多。发现了 8 个期刊集群，大多数由单个学科主导。它们的引文网络显示出一个有影响力的核心精神病学期刊集群，与一个“精神药理学”集群密切相关。一组“核心临床心理学”期刊与“行为疗法”集群相关联，但两者都从属于精神病学期刊。临床心理学期刊的整合程度不如精神病学期刊，“健康心理学/行为医学”和“神经心理学”集群在网络中相对处于边缘地位。
心理健康领域的科学出版物主要是按照学科组织的，在某种程度上是有层次的，临床心理学期刊往往在结构上从属于精神病学期刊。
