TY - JOUR
T1 - A bibliometric analysis of the cognitive turn in psychology
AU - Engelen, Jan
AU - Verhaegh, Sander
AU - Collignon, Laura
AU - Pannu, Gurpreet
N1 - Funding Information:
The first and second author contributed equally to this article and are listed alphabetically. The third and fourth author contributed to data collection, preparation, and cleaning. Sander Verhaegh’s research is funded by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant 275-20-064). We have no known conflicts of interest to disclose.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - We analyzed co-citation patterns in 332.498 articles published in Anglophone psychology journals between 1946 and 1990 to estimate (1) when cognitive psychology first emerged as a clearly delineated subdiscipline, (2) how fast it grew, (3) to what extent it replaced other (e.g., behaviorist) approaches to psychology, (4) to what degree it was more appealing to scholars from a younger generation, and (5) whether it was more interdisciplinary than alternative traditions. We detected a major shift in the structure of co-citation networks between approximately 1955 and 1975 and draw novel conclusions about the developments commonly referred to as ‘the cognitive turn’.
AB - We analyzed co-citation patterns in 332.498 articles published in Anglophone psychology journals between 1946 and 1990 to estimate (1) when cognitive psychology first emerged as a clearly delineated subdiscipline, (2) how fast it grew, (3) to what extent it replaced other (e.g., behaviorist) approaches to psychology, (4) to what degree it was more appealing to scholars from a younger generation, and (5) whether it was more interdisciplinary than alternative traditions. We detected a major shift in the structure of co-citation networks between approximately 1955 and 1975 and draw novel conclusions about the developments commonly referred to as ‘the cognitive turn’.
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U2 - 10.1162/posc_a_00574
DO - 10.1162/posc_a_00574
M3 - Article
SN - 1063-6145
VL - 31
SP - 324
EP - 359
JO - Perspectives on Science
JF - Perspectives on Science
IS - 3
ER -