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Experimental Psychology
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Experimental Psychology

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 608 49 59 11

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Number of Best Scientists*: 57
Documents by Best Scientists*: 68
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 67
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.587
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Experimental Psychology?

The journal investigates studies in Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Cognition, Communication and Stimulus (physiology). It explores topics in Cognitive psychology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Working memory, Visual perception, Perception and Priming (psychology). Working memory research is concerned with Short-term memory in particular.

The majority of Priming (psychology) studies are focused on the issues of Response priming. Presentations on Social psychology include those discussing Implicit-association test and Affect (psychology). The Implicit-association test study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Implicit attitude.

Experimental Psychology dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Cognition and Developmental psychology. Speech recognition and Artificial intelligence are some topics wherein Communication research discussed in the journal have an impact. Issues in Artificial intelligence were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Pattern recognition, Computer vision and Natural language processing.

  • Cognitive psychology (44.68%)
  • Social psychology (26.24%)
  • Cognition (17.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Standards for Internet-based experimenting. (591 citations)
  • The Extrinsic Affective Simon Task. (468 citations)
  • Implicit attitudes towards homosexuality: reliability, validity, and controllability of the IAT (375 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Experimental Psychology:

Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Cognition, Communication and Developmental psychology are the main subjects of interest in the journal articles. The most cited articles hold forums on Cognitive psychology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Stimulus (physiology), Working memory, Short-term memory, Prefrontal cortex and Priming (psychology). Social psychology research is the primary subject tackled in the most cited papers with a focus in Implicit-association test.

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

  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Social psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of the journal are Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, Speech recognition, Action (philosophy) and Time perception. It facilitates the exploration of Cognitive psychology in relation to the field of Nonsense. It facilitates discussions on Neuroscience that incorporate concepts from other fields like Bystander effect and Field (Bourdieu).

The research on Speech recognition featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Speech perception, Memory performance, Noise and False memory. Some problems in Action (philosophy) that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Social psychology and Cognitive science. The study of Bisection and how it intertwines with concepts under Audiology and Stimulus (psychology) were explored in the presented Time perception research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • When the Action to Be Performed at the Stage of Retrieval Enacts Memory of Action Verbs (1 citations)
  • Cannabis and its different strains: Do they have differential effects on time perception? (1 citations)
  • Do We Become More Cautious for Others When Large Amounts of Money Are at Stake (1 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 Experimental Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jan De Houwer (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christian Frings (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Klaus Rothermund (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Dirk Wentura (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karl Christoph Klauer (11 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 Experimental Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ghent University (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Trier (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Saarland University (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Würzburg (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 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, 6.67% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.14% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 28.57% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 64.29% 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

  • The Challenge of Inferring Unconscious Mental Processes

    David R Shanks;Simone Malejka;Miguel A Vadillo

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Pleasantness Only?: How Sensory and Affective Attributes Describe Touch Targeting C-Tactile Fibers

    Uta Sailer;Marlene Hausmann;Ilona Croy

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Your face and moves seem happier when I smile: Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuli.

    Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos;Aiko Murata;Kyoshiro Sasaki;Yuki Yamada

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • The Pervasive Problem of <i>Post Hoc</i> Data Selection in Studies on Unconscious Processing

    (2022)
    23 Citations
  • How Do Stress and Social Closeness Impact Prosocial Behavior

    Thomas O Passarelli;Tony W Buchanan

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Acute Stress Improves Concentration Performance

    Cathy Degroote;Adrian Schwaninger;Nadja Heimgartner;Patrik Hedinger

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Balancing Between Goal-Directed and Habitual Responding Following Acute Stress

    Bart Hartogsveld;Peter van Ruitenbeek;Conny W. E. M. Quaedflieg;Tom Smeets;Tom Smeets

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Infusing Context Into Emotion Perception Impacts Emotion Decoding Accuracy

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Goal-Based Binding of Irrelevant Stimulus Features for Action Slips

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Acute Psychosocial Stress Modulates the Detection Sensitivity for Facial Emotions.

    Bernadette von Dawans;Ines Spenthof;Patrick Zimmer;Gregor Domes

    (2020)
    17 Citations

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