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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

0090-6905

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10936

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 1028 17 16 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 33
Documents by Best Scientists*: 30
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 72
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.528
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Psycholinguistic Research?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research investigates studies in Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing and Cognitive psychology. The journal addresses concerns in Psycholinguistics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Sentence, Reading (process), Comprehension and Developmental psychology. The majority of Sentence studies are focused on the issues of Sentence processing.

The Developmental psychology works, particularly on Language development are tackled in it. Noun, Syntax, Context (language use), Verb and Subject (grammar) are among the concentrations of Linguistics that garnered much attention in it. Specifically, studies on Noun phrase are prevalent in the Noun works discussed.

The work tackled in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research goes beyond the discipline of Artificial intelligence as it also encompasses Speech recognition. The Natural language processing works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Phonology and Lexical decision task. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research facilitates discussions on Cognitive psychology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Semantics and Task analysis.

  • Psycholinguistics (88.06%)
  • Linguistics (50.73%)
  • Artificial intelligence (22.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Patterns of paralexia: A psycholinguistic approach (854 citations)
  • A sensitive period for the acquisition of a nonnative phonological system (492 citations)
  • A prosody tutorial for investigators of auditory sentence processing (429 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Psycholinguistic Research:

The journal papers are organized to address concerns in the fields of Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing and Sentence. While work presented in the journal papers provide substantial information on Psycholinguistics, it also covers topics in Cognitive psychology, Parsing, Comprehension, Reading (process) and Developmental psychology. The most cited articles about Sentence processing are all disciplines of Natural language processing that connect with topics in Structure (mathematical logic).

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

  • Linguistics
  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Psycholinguistics, Cognitive psychology, Linguistics, Context (language use) and Reading (process). Some problems in Psycholinguistics that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Negation, Comprehension, Language acquisition, Sentence and Reading comprehension. Perception, German, Association (psychology), Categorization and Episodic memory are some topics wherein Cognitive psychology research discussed in the journal have an impact.

Concepts in Test (assessment), as well as related topics in Vocabulary, are covered in the Linguistics research presented in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. It holds forums on Context (language use) that merges themes from other disciplines such as Contrast (statistics), Word (computer architecture), Meaning (linguistics) and Focus (linguistics). It explores issues in Reading (process) which can be linked to other research areas like Morpheme, Cognition and Mandarin Chinese.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Overview of the Referential Process: The Operation of Language Within and Between People. (10 citations)
  • Overview of Computer Measures of the Referential Process. (10 citations)
  • Development of WRRL: A New Computerized Measure of the Reflecting/Reorganizing Function (8 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 Psycholinguistic Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Daniel C. O’Connell (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sabine Kowal (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Doris Aaronson (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lyn Frazier (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Lewis P. Shapiro (14 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 Psycholinguistic Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • City University of New York (31 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • New York University (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Haifa (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst (24 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, 3.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 4.49% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.49% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.24% of all publications and 79.78% 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.

Becoming an Author: Education and Licensure Requirements

To contribute to the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, you should ideally be educated and experienced in fields of psychology, linguistics, and/or artificial intelligence. If you're aiming to work in psycholinguistics in Michigan, for example, it's important to understand the education requirements and licensure process to become a practicing psychologist. In Michigan, at minimum, you should have completed a graduate degree, a doctoral program, and a specific number of supervised practice hours. The process includes an Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) which must be passed to obtain licensure. You may wish to specialize in different areas, depending on your research interests. As the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research covers a broad range of topics from sentence processing to cognitive psychology, having a specific specialty can offer meaningful insights into your chosen field. Detailed information on psychologist education requirements in Michigan can be found here. Once these requirements are met, and you've gained experience through practice, you can become part of the research community contributing to journals such as the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

Top Publications

  • Referent’s Lexical Frequency Predicts Mismatch Negativity Responses to New Words Following Semantic Training

    Aleksander A. Aleksandrov;Kristina S. Memetova;Lyudmila N. Stankevich;Veronika M. Knyazeva

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Aging and the Perception of Affective and Linguistic Prosody

    (2022)
    16 Citations
  • Negation Processing in Children with ADHD: The Generic Problem of Using Negation in Instructions.

    Carolin Dudschig;Barbara Kaup;Jennifer Svaldi;Marco Daniel Gulewitsch

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • The Role of Predictability During Negation Processing in Truth-Value Judgment Tasks.

    Franziska Rück;Carolin Dudschig;Ian G. Mackenzie;Anne Vogt

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Is Purple Lost in Translation? The Affective Meaning of Purple, Violet, and Lilac Cognates in 16 Languages and 30 Populations

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Agency of Subjects and Eye Movements in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study

    Ruth Filik;Joanne Ingram;Linda Moxey;Hartmut Leuthold

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • A Standardized Set of 380 Pictures for Lebanese Arabic: Norms for Name Agreement, Conceptual Familiarity, Imageability, and Subjective Frequency

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Cognitive control in processing ambiguous idioms: evidence from a self-paced reading study

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Can Narrative Skills Improve in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Preliminary Study with Verbally Fluent Adolescents Receiving the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment

    (2023)
    2 Citations

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