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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

1196-1961

Published by: American Psychological Association

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cep

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 752 30 46 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 41
Documents by Best Scientists*: 55
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 70
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.662
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Perception, Communication and Cognitive science. Cognitive psychology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Stimulus (physiology), Social psychology, Priming (psychology) and Reading (process). It investigates Priming (psychology) research which frequently intersects with Lexical decision task.

The studies on Cognition discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Developmental psychology, Context (language use) and Word recognition. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology emphasizes research on Perception, which includes concerns such as Visual perception. The journal is focused mainly on Recall, particularly Free recall.

The works on Working memory deal in particular with Short-term memory.

  • Cognitive psychology (47.56%)
  • Cognition (29.64%)
  • Perception (15.34%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology (676 citations)
  • Using confidence intervals for graphically based data interpretation. (671 citations)
  • Home literacy activities and their influence on early literacy skills. (347 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology:

The main points discussed in the most cited publications deal with Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Perception, Communication and Developmental psychology. In addition to Cognitive psychology research, the published articles aim to explore topics under Stimulus (physiology), Cognitive science, Semantic memory and Reading (process). The works on Cognition tackled in the published articles bring together disciplines like Social psychology and Comprehension.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Cognition
  • Neuroscience
  • Social psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology aims to foster the development of research in Cognitive psychology, PsycINFO, Literal and figurative language, Irony and Comprehension. The main emphasis of it is the subject of Cognitive psychology, focusing on Recall. In addition to Literal and figurative language research, it aims to explore topics under Language development, Meaning (linguistics), Literal (computer programming), Pragmatics and Sarcasm.

The featured Irony research encompasses issues not only in the field but also those in the adjacent area of disciplines such as

  • Utterance which is related to area like Meaning (non-linguistic) and Reading (process),
  • Feeling, which have a strong connection to Emotionality,
  • Emotional functions and Perspective (graphical) most often made with reference to Politeness,
  • Prosody and related Speech rate, Joke, Vocal pitch and Entertainment.. Comprehension research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Context (language use) and Meaning (existential). Issues in Language Experience Approach were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Cognition and Categorization.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Valence does not affect serial recall. (2 citations)
  • Second language experience impacts first language irony comprehension among bilingual adults. (2 citations)
  • Teaching sarcasm: Evaluating metapragmatic training for typically developing children. (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Derek Besner (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Raymond M. Klein (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jean Saint-Aubin (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Jamie I. D. Campbell (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael E. J. Masson (12 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Toronto (46 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Waterloo (39 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Western Ontario (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Alberta (30 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • McMaster University (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 24.39% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 38.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.90% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.45% of all publications and 41.94% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Figurative language communicates directly because it precisely demonstrates what we mean.

    Herbert L Colston;Raymond W Gibbs

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • How does meaning come to mind? Four broad principles of semantic processing.

    Penny M Pexman

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Teaching sarcasm: Evaluating metapragmatic training for typically developing children.

    Kate Lee;David M. Sidhu;Penny M. Pexman

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Valence does not affect serial recall.

    Tamra J. Bireta;Dominic Guitard;Ian Neath;Aimée M. Surprenant

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Bridging people and perspectives: General and language-specific social network structure predict mentalizing across diverse sociolinguistic contexts.

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • Second language experience impacts first language irony comprehension among bilingual adults.

    Mehrgol Tiv;Fiona Deodato;Vincent Rouillard;Sabrina Wiebe

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Rethinking the definition of episodic memory.

    Christopher R Madan

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Yearning for distraction: Evidence for a trade-off between media multitasking and mind wandering.

    Brandon C W Ralph;Alyssa C Smith;Paul Seli;Daniel Smilek

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Dominic Thompson;Hartmut Leuthold;Ruth Filik

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • The hierarchical relations among mathematical competencies: From fundamental numeracy to complex mathematical skills.

    (2023)
    9 Citations

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