英文摘要 |
Research in Applied Psychology is an academic journal which was founded in 1999, and has celebrated its first decade by the end of 2009. Academic journals are media among research communities, of which features can probably be seen through the development over the journals’ publishing histories. This article will firstly review the path of one decade’s development for Research in Applied Psychology. Then, bibilometrics and social network analysis methods will be introduced to analyze citation networks of Research in Applied Psychology, Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies and Chinese Journal of Psychology. Two methods were employed to evaluate the performance of Research in Applied Psychology over the past decade. Finally, the evaluation criteria and development strategy for Chinese journals will be evaluated, including discussions on TSSCI, different evaluation methods and standards shall be used in developing and developed stage, and also the strategy for Chinese journal database. |