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Zeitschrift fur Psychologie/Journal of Psychology
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Zeitschrift fur Psychologie/Journal of Psychology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 555 67 68 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 80
Documents by Best Scientists*: 91
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 52
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.844
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology?

Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology investigates areas of study like Social psychology, Humanities, Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology and Gynecology. The journal focuses on Social psychology as well as the interrelated topic of The Internet. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Cognitive psychology, apply to Cognition as well.

  • Social psychology (16.83%)
  • Humanities (13.33%)
  • Cognitive psychology (11.75%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Cyberbullying Versus Face-to-Face Bullying A Theoretical and Conceptual Review (554 citations)
  • Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Identification of Risk Groups for Adjustment Problems (289 citations)
  • Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between the Big Five and Academic Success at University (235 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology:

The published papers investigate studies in Social psychology, The Internet, Cognition, Clinical psychology and Econometrics. The journal papers feature works in Social psychology, more specifically Persuasion, and explore their relation to disciplines like Reactance. Issues in The Internet were discussed in the most cited articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Context (language use), Harassment, Developmental psychology, Qualitative research and Sample (statistics).

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

  • Law
  • Cognition
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology deals with Anxiety, Conceptualization, Cyberchondria, Psychotherapist and Medically unexplained. The research on Medically unexplained featured in it combines topics in other fields like Treatment issues and Clinical psychology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Functional somatic syndromes (FSS) in children and adolescents: conceptual, measurement and treatment issues (3 citations)
  • Toward a Neurocognitive Understanding of the Algorithms That Underlie Metamemory Judgments (2 citations)
  • Health Anxiety: Conceptualization and Future Directions (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 Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eva Traut-Mattausch (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dieter Frey (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christiane Spiel (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Edgar Erdfelder (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eva Jonas (5 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 Zeitschrift Fur Psychologie-journal of Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Vienna (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Salzburg (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Münster (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Mannheim (9 papers) absent 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 2020 edition, 20.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 75.00% 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

  • Bad Is Stronger Than Good

    (2022)
    1077 Citations
  • Human-Like Robots and the Uncanny Valley

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Power-Enhanced Funnel Plots for Meta-Analysis

    Michael Kossmeier;Ulrich S. Tran;Martin Voracek

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Somatic Symptom Perception and Interoception

    Michael Witthöft;Anne-Kathrin Bräscher;Stefanie M. Jungmann;Ferenc Köteles

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Reactivity of Judgments of Learning in a Levels-of-Processing Paradigm

    Eylul Tekin;Henry L. Roediger

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Responsible remembering: How metacognition impacts adaptive selective memory.

    Dillon H. Murphy;Alan D. Castel

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • On the structure of affect: A meta-analytic investigation of the dimensionality and the cross-national applicability of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS).

    Nadine Wedderhoff;Timo Gnambs;Timo Gnambs;Oliver Wedderhoff;Tanja Burgard

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • How Did COVID-19 Affect Education and What Can Be Learned Moving Forward?

    (2023)
    16 Citations
  • Addressing publication bias in Meta-Analysis : Empirical findings from community-augmented meta-analyses of infant language development

    Sho Tsuji;Sho Tsuji;Alejandrina Cristia;Michael C. Frank;Christina Bergmann

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Imagery Rescripting Helps Victims Cope With Experienced Injustice

    Mathias Twardawski;Mario Gollwitzer;Marlene S. Altenmüller;Anna E. Kunze

    (2021)
    14 Citations

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