American Psychological Association (APA) Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher American Psychological Association (APA) including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

American Psychological Association (APA) has published 701902 documents so far, receiving a total of 8583558 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.57% and 0.78% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. American Psychological Association (APA) has a score of 12.23 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by American Psychological Association (APA). In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Book, and Report a with the total document number of 227708, 67906, 401641, 4645, and 2 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 32.44%, 9.67%, 57.22%, 0.66%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in American Psychological Association (APA) so far, respectively. American Psychological Association (APA) has been an active publisher from 1620-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of American Psychological Association (APA) over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of American Psychological Association (APA) documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. American Psychological Association (APA) has the highest annual number of publications in 2011, with 39223 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 165837 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.49.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of American Psychological Association (APA) are presented by document type, including Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports.

The number of published documents by American Psychological Association (APA) are 401641, 227708, 67906, 4645, and 2 for Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports, respectively. These numbers are equal to 18.37%, 0.25%, 0.43%, 0.52%, and 0.00% of the whole published Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports of American Psychological Association (APA) are 90473, 8207756, 96954, 188375, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 58.83%, 0.78%, 0.60%, 2.47%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports by American Psychological Association (APA) are 88, 847, 91, 175, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 98, 3201, 588, 793, and 253, respectively.

The g-index value for published Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports by American Psychological Association (APA) are 19, 61, 17, 32, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 20, 129, 48, 60, and 29, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports by American Psychological Association (APA) are 0.225, 36.045, 1.428, 40.554, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 0.070, 11.521, 1.016, 8.593, and 1.416, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports by American Psychological Association (APA) are 24234, 8522, 10843, 62, and 0, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports are 2011, 2020, 2011, 2016, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports published in American Psychological Association (APA) are 2821, 158056, 3908, 1589, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports are 2010, 2010, 2012, 2010, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports published in American Psychological Association (APA) are 0.12, 40.56, 0.89, 36.11, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Datasets, Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, and Reports are 2010, 2010, 2016, 2010, and 0, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher American Psychological Association (APA).

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by American Psychological Association (APA), are 862, 227, and 100, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by American Psychological Association (APA) are 62, 24, and 16, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by American Psychological Association (APA), are 102756, 61918, 35594, 17284, 5422, 2056, 690, 145, 32, and 10, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the American Psychological Association (APA) top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by American Psychological Association (APA) is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of American Psychological Association (APA) based on the number of published documents are American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 14531, 11047, 10436, 9842, and 9441, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.070%, 1.574%, 1.487%, 1.402%, and 1.345% of the total documents published by American Psychological Association (APA) so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of American Psychological Association (APA) are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and American Psychologist. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 11047, 9441, 6134, 10436, and 14531, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.129%, 0.110%, 0.071%, 0.122%, and 0.169% of the total citations received by American Psychological Association (APA) publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of American Psychological Association (APA) are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Review, Psychological Methods, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 111.339, 99.599, 89.091, 88.338, and 64.382, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in American Psychological Association (APA). The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Psychological Association (APA) are mental health, well being, the relationship, decision making, the impact, health care, college students, meta analysis, self efficacy, and american psychological, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 9423, 3541, 3066, 2952, 2770, 2600, 2525, 2281, 2180, and 2178, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Psychological Association (APA) are meta analysis, well being, mental health, individual differences, self efficacy, self esteem, the self, the relationship, posttraumatic stress, and working memory, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 2281, 3541, 9423, 1982, 2180, 1747, 1168, 3066, 1679, and 1983, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Psychological Association (APA) are meta analysis, information processing, the self, sex differences, longitudinal study, posttraumatic stress disorder, individual differences, well being, gender differences, and self esteem, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 83.835, 56.028, 48.307, 42.977, 38.264, 37.266, 34.842, 33.254, 32.919, and 32.410, respectively.