Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland.
J Couns Psychol. 2008 Oct;55(4):518-27. doi: 10.1037/a0013618.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate methods of measuring individual research productivity for counseling psychologists. Using the 60 members of the Journal of Counseling Psychology editorial board, the authors computed a comparison of 6 popular indices of productivity, revealing considerable levels of positive skewness, kurtosis, and overlap with each other. Combining the strengths of the 6 indices, the authors developed a new productivity index entitled the Integrated Research Productivity Index (IRPI). The IRPI measures individual productivity by statistically combining an individual's author-weighted publications, average times cited by other publications, and years since first publication into a comprehensive score. Productivity values and IRPI scores for 3 groups of counseling psychologists (Tyler Award recipients, Kuder Award recipients, and Division 17 Presidents) were computed to provide evidence of discriminant validity among the indices. In contrast to the other measures examined, the IRPI accounts for productivity per year and years in the field and assesses mean citation count per article as opposed to total citation count, thus yielding similar scores for Tyler (lifetime) and Kuder (early career) research award recipients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究旨在探讨衡量咨询心理学家个体研究成果的方法。作者使用《咨询心理学杂志》的 60 名编辑委员会成员，计算了 6 种流行的生产力指标的比较，结果显示出相当程度的正偏态、峰态和相互重叠。作者结合了这 6 种指标的优势，开发了一种新的生产力指标，名为综合研究生产力指数（IRPI）。IRPI 通过将个体的加权出版物、其他出版物的平均引用次数和首次发表后的年数进行统计组合，来衡量个体的生产力。作者计算了三组咨询心理学家（泰勒奖获得者、Kuder 奖获得者和第 17 分部主席）的生产力值和 IRPI 得分，以提供指数之间的判别有效性的证据。与其他检查的指标不同，IRPI 考虑了每年的生产力和领域内的年限，并评估了每篇文章的平均引用次数，而不是总引用次数，因此对泰勒（终身）和 Kuder（早期职业生涯）研究奖获得者的得分相似。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2010 APA，保留所有权利）。
