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The evolution of the American Journal of Psychology 1, 1887-1903: a network investigation
- Source :
- American Journal of Psychology. September 22, 2015, p387, 15 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The American Journal of Psychology (AJP) was the first academic journal in the United States dedicated to the 'new' scientific form of the discipline. But where did the journal's founding owner/editor, G. Stanley Hall, find the 'psychologists' he needed to fill the pages of such a venture 1887, when he was still virtually the only professor of psychology in the country? To investigate this question we used the substantive vocabularies of every full article published in AJPs first 14 volumes to generate networks of verbally similar articles. These networks reveal the variety of research communities that Hall drew on to launch and support the journal. Three separate networks, corresponding to 3 successive time blocks, show how Hall's constellation of participating research communities changed over AJPs first 17 years. Many of these communities started with rather nebulous boundaries but soon began to differentiate into groups of more distinct specialties. Some topics declined over time, but new ones regularly appeared to replace them. We sketch a quasievolutionary model to describe the intellectual ecology of AJPs early years.<br />The American Journal of Psychology, first launched in 1887 by Granville Stanley Hall, was the first scholarly periodical dedicated specifically to the 'new' scientific psychology in North America. (1) The [...]
- Subjects :
- Periodical publishing
Psychology and mental health
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00029556
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- American Journal of Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.428752065