Buela-Casal, Get al. 2011. The h index of the presidents of the APA through journal articles included in the Web of Science database. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 11 (1): 95-107

[Eugene Garfield]

Buela-Casal, G; Olivas-Avila, JA; Musi-Lechuga, B; Zych, I. 2011. The h index 
of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) through 
journal articles included in the Web of Science database. INTERNATIONAL 
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 11 (1): 95-107.

Author Full Name(s): Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Olivas-Avila, Jose A.; Musi-
Lechuga, Bertha; Zych, Izabela
Language: English
Document Type: Article

Author Keywords: The presidents of the APA; The h index; American 
Psychological Association; Descriptive study
KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; IMPACT; INTERNATIONALITY; 
PROFESSORS; PROGRAMS; QUALITY; GUIDE; SPAIN

Abstract: The current descriptive study analyzes the h index of the presidents 
of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1940 to the present. 
The h index is calculated from the number of articles published in journals 
included in the Web of Science (WOS) database and the citations received by 
the articles in the same database. There was no established period of time for 
the search and thus, all the results included in the WOS were analyzed. The 
total number of results was of 16 676 from which 3 734 were of the presidents 
of the APA. The results are shown as a rank-ordered list. It was found that 
Albert Bandura and Alan Kazdin are the presidents with the highest h indexes 
and that there is an important difference between those and the rest. The 
results of the study lead to speculate that the productivity in scientific articles 
was not the most important criterion to take into account for the election of 
the presidents in the history of the APA.

Addresses: [Buela-Casal, Gualberto] Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, 
Spain; [Olivas-Avila, Jose A.] Univ Autonoma Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, 
Mexico; [Zych, Izabela] Univ Huelva, Huelva, Spain
Reprint Address: Buela-Casal, G, Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Campus Cartuja S-N, 
Granada 18011, Spain.

E-mail Address: gbuela at ugr.es
ISSN: 1697-2600
fulltext: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/337/33715423006.pdf