Hamilton JC, Sparrow V, Waxmonsky J,Deemer HN "Citation patterns in social psychology and clinical psychology articles in 1986 and 1996: Good news for the social-clinical interface" JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 20 (2): 130-146 SUM 2001

[Eugene Garfield]

James C Hamilton : jchamilt at bama.ua.edu

TITLE  Citation patterns in social psychology and clinical psychology
       articles in 1986 and 1996: Good news for the social-clinical
       interface
AUTHOR    Hamilton JC, Sparrow V, Waxmonsky J, Deemer HN
JOURNAL   JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 20 (2): 130-146 SUM 2001

Document type: Article  Language: English  Cited References: 13
Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
An ongoing concern of scientists who promote the integration of clinical and
social psychology is the question of whether social/personality approaches
to clinical problems have an impact on mainstream clinical research and
practice. We attempted to answer this question by surveying the extent to
which clinical psychology articles contain citations from social psychology
journals and vice versa. We examined every citation that appeared in 1986
and 1996 volumes of three prominent clinical/counseling psychology journals
and two prominent social/personality psychology journals and coded the
citation source as a clinical, social, social-clinical, medical, or "other"
journal. Social psychology articles show considerable attention to clinical
issues; there were few differences between 1986 and 1996. Citations in
clinical journals revealed significant growth in references to articles from
social/personality psychology journals. journals and review articles
explicitly concerned with the social-clinical interface were cited much more
frequently in social psychology articles than in clinical psychology
articles.

Clinical/counseling articles, but not social/personality articles, showed
increased attention to medical issues, whereas both types of target articles
showed increases in the number of citations from other disciplines. The
results are interpreted as good news for advocates of the social-clinical
interface, and for the intellectual vitality of both social/personality and
clinical/counseling psychology.

KeyWords Plus:
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONALITY

Addresses:
Hamilton JC, Univ Alabama, Dept Psychol, Box 870348, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
USA
Univ Alabama, Dept Psychol, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA

Publisher:
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC, NEW YORK

IDS Number:
456GQ

ISSN:
0736-7236

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