Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2010, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (3): 68-74.

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Current situation and development of psychological research in China ——Bibliometric analysis on papers of the 9th to the 12th Chinese academic conferences of Psychology

Yao Ben-xian & Zhu Li-juan & Luo Jia   

  1. (1College of Psychology, Beijing Normal University , Beijing, P.R.China) (2Department of Psychology, Anhui Normal University , Anhui, P.R.China)
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-09-30 Published:2010-09-30
  • Contact: Yao Ben-xian & Zhu Li-juan & Luo Jia

Abstract: After entering the 21st century, Chinese Psychological Society has hold 4 Chinese academic conferences of psychology. The article analyzed the papers of the 9th to the 12th conferences with the method of bibliometrics to discover the development and change of Chinese psychology. The quantity of the papers increased rapidly, and more categories were presented; Chinese fields of research are mainly Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, General Psychology and Experimental Psychology, and then Industrial Psychology, Clinical and Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, Sport and Exercise Psychology, Military Psychology, Psychometrics ; the authors mainly used the methods of empirical research and quantitative research; the authors were from many provinces, most of whom were from universities and special research institutes; and the main mode was internal cooperation; the quantity of papers from abroad was increased gradually. Psychological researches in China are developing rapidly, scientificity of psychological researches is strengthened gradually, power of psychological researches is expanded continuously, internationalization of psychological researches heightened progressively.

Key words: Chinese researches of psychology, the method of bibliometrics, the academic papers of the Chinese academic conference of psychology, research report