How much is research in the top journals of industrial/organizational psychology dominated by authors from the US?
How much is research in the top journals of industrial/organizational psychology dominated by authors from the US?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-019-03180-2
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Koenig, Cornelius J.
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作者：
Bajwa, Nida ul Habib;Koenig, Cornelius J.
工业/组织(I/O)心理学是应用于工作背景的心理学的一个子领域，一直被批评为由美国作者主导，因为这种主导地位可能会阻碍世界其他地区的研究人员对结果的概括性和理论、范式和方法的丰富。然而，之前对美国主导地位程度的估计可能在范围上受到限制，过时，并可能受到在美国社交或接受美国合著者帮助的非美国研究人员的偏见。因此，我们通过分析过去11年来在输入/输出心理学领域十大期刊上发表的5626篇论文及其作者来衡量美国的主导水平。结果表明，尽管I/O心理学的国际化程度稳步提高，但美国的主导地位仍在继续。对我们样本中的性别分布进行的另一项分析显示，女性第一作者在没有美国从属关系的作者中略多见。我们建议采取几个步骤来进一步提高国际化水平。
Industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology, the subfield of psychology applied to the context of work, has been criticized for being dominated by U.S. authors because this dominance could prevent the generalizability of results and the enrichment of theories, paradigms, and approaches by researchers from other parts of the world. Previous estimates on the extent of the U.S. dominance are, however, likely restricted in scope, outdated, and likely biased by non-U.S. researchers who were socialized in the U.S. or received help by U.S. co-authors. As such, we measured the level of U.S. dominance by analyzing 5626 papers published from the top ten journals of the field of I/O psychology in the last eleven years and their authors. The results show that the U.S. dominance continues, although the internationalization of I/O psychology has steadily increased. An additional analysis of the gender distribution across our sample revealed that female first authorship is slightly more common among authors with no U.S. affiliation. We suggest several steps to further increase the level of internationalization.