Cumulative and Career-Stage Citation Impact of Social-Personality Psychology Programs and Their Members
- 28 July 2010
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 36 (10), 1283-1300
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167210378111
Abstract
Number of citations and the h-index are popular metrics for indexing scientific impact. These, and other existing metrics, are strongly related to scientists’ seniority. This article introduces complementary indicators that are unrelated to the number of years since PhD. To illustrate cumulative and career-stage approaches for assessing the scientific impact across a discipline, citations for 611 scientists from 97 U.S. and Canadian social psychology programs are amassed and analyzed. Results provide benchmarks for evaluating impact across the career span in psychology and other disciplines with similar citation patterns. Career-stage indicators provide a very different perspective on individual and program impact than cumulative impact, and may predict emerging scientists and programs. Comparing social groups, Whites and men had higher impact than non-Whites and women, respectively. However, average differences in career stage accounted for most of the difference for both groups.Keywords
This publication has 58 references indexed in Scilit:
- Are there really two types of h index variants? A validation study by using molecular life sciences dataResearch Evaluation, 2009
- Combining curriculum vitae and bibliometric analysis: mobility, gender and research performanceResearch Evaluation, 2009
- The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess CitationsPLOS ONE, 2009
- Does the h index have predictive power?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007
- Achievement index climbs the ranksNature, 2007
- What Should I Be Doing, and Where Are They Doing It? Scholarly Productivity of Academic PsychologistsPerspectives on Psychological Science, 2006
- The Anatomy of Impact: What Makes an Article Influential?Psychological Science, 1996
- Measures of Sex Differences in Scientific ProductivitySocial Forces, 1992
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986
- Making it in academic psychology: Demographic and personality correlates of attainment.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980