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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

0096-3445

Published by: American Psychological Association

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 60 432 478 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 530
Documents by Best Scientists*: 546
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 196
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.076
Impact Factor: 3.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General investigates studies in Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Social psychology, Perception and PsycINFO. The Cognitive psychology research dealing mostly with Recall is the focus of it. While it focused on Cognition, it was also able to explore topics like Developmental psychology, Cognitive science, Categorization and Information processing.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General addresses concerns in Social psychology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Morality, Social cognition and Social perception. The Visual perception study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Communication.

  • Cognitive psychology (53.60%)
  • Cognition (29.48%)
  • Social psychology (26.56%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. (13836 citations)
  • Cognitive Representations of Semantic Categories. (3189 citations)
  • Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. (3129 citations)

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

Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Social psychology, Developmental psychology and Perception are the main subjects of interest in the published papers. The majority of Cognitive psychology studies in the journal articles are focused on the issues of Recall. Stimulus (physiology) and Information processing are some topics wherein Cognition research discussed in the journal articles has an impact.

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

  • Cognition
  • Social psychology
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal facilitates discussions on Cognitive psychology, PsycINFO, Cognition, Social psychology and Perception. Cognitive psychology works presented in the journal have a specific focus on Recall. The studies in PsycINFO featured incorporate elements of Test (assessment), Context (language use), Developmental psychology, Metacognition and Cognitive bias.

The concepts on Cognition presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Control (linguistics) and Action (philosophy). Social perception and Morality are some topics wherein Social psychology research discussed in the journal have an impact. It is focused mainly on Working memory, particularly Short-term memory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Logistic or linear? Estimating causal effects of experimental treatments on binary outcomes using regression analysis. (23 citations)
  • A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control. (19 citations)
  • Modulations of saliency signals at two hierarchical levels of priority computation revealed by spatial statistical distractor learning. (15 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 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Asher Koriat (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • William Hirst (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yaacov Trope (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David R. Shanks (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Akira Miyake (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 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (79 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yale University (63 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • New York University (61 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Toronto (52 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Columbia University (50 papers) published 1 paper at the last 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, 39.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.52% of all publications and 53.04% 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

  • Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.

    Bence Bago;David G. Rand;Gordon Pennycook

    (2020)
    548 Citations
  • The partisan mind: Is extreme political partisanship related to cognitive inflexibility?

    Leor Zmigrod;Peter Jason Rentfrow;Trevor W. Robbins

    (2020)
    169 Citations
  • A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control.

    Christopher Draheim;Jason S Tsukahara;Jessie D Martin;Cody A Mashburn

    (2021)
    142 Citations
  • Is there a G factor for metacognition? Correlations in retrospective metacognitive sensitivity across tasks.

    Audrey Mazancieux;Stephen M. Fleming;Céline Souchay;Chris J. A. Moulin

    (2020)
    128 Citations
  • Intelligence and creativity share a common cognitive and neural basis

    Emily Frith;Daniel B. Elbich;Alexander P. Christensen;Monica D. Rosenberg

    (2021)
    96 Citations
  • Optimal use of reminders: Metacognition, effort, and cognitive offloading

    Sam J. Gilbert;Arabella Bird;Jason M. Carpenter;Stephen M. Fleming

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral

    William J. Brady;Ana P. Gantman;Jay J. Van Bavel

    (2020)
    86 Citations
  • Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination.

    (2022)
    78 Citations
  • Experimental manipulation of extraverted and introverted behavior and its effects on well-being.

    Seth Margolis;Sonja Lyubomirsky

    (2020)
    78 Citations
  • Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning.

    Ben M Tappin;Gordon Pennycook;David G Rand

    (2021)
    73 Citations

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