韦斯特和其余的人? 世界大多数国家在发展心理学研究中的相互引用
1Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.
Developmental psychology
|June 16, 2025
概括
在发育心理学 (DP) 研究中,建议在多数世界国家之间进行相互引用,以应对少数世界的主导地位. 虽然使用多数世界样本的研究增加了,但相互引用仍然很少,阻碍了多样化的知识生产.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 全球研究公平性全球研究公平性
- 方法的创新方法的创新.
背景情况:
- 在发育心理学 (DP) 知识生产中,持续的少数民族世界主导地位得到了注意.
- 在DP研究中隐含的偏见和不平等的代表性需要进一步探索.
- 现有的研究往往忽视了全球科学贡献中微妙的权力动态.
研究的目的:
- 介绍并调查多数世界国家之间的相互引用,作为一种挑战少数世界在DP中的支配地位的方法.
- 分析顶级DP期刊中相互引用的程度和性质.
- 提出一种策略,以促进发展心理学中更公平的全球知识生产.
主要方法:
- 调查了来自四个主要的DP期刊的3879篇实证文章,截至2022年.
- 在两个时期 (2003-2013年和2018-2022年) 中,分析了包括多数世界样本在内的研究比例.
- 检查在多数世界国家之间进行相互引用的研究的频率和特征.
主要成果:
- 包括任何多数世界样本在内的DP研究的比例在两个时期之间从11.41%增加到14.72%.
- 在多个多数世界样本中进行相互引用的研究很少见,仅占分析文章的1.31%.
- 现有的相互引用研究似乎是例外的,而不是常规的学术实践.
结论:
- 大多数世界国家之间的相互引用提供了一个有希望的方法方法来解决DP的全球研究不平等问题.
- 这种方法可以提高对上下文多样性的理解,测试跨境流程,并产生新的见解.
- 鼓励相互引用可以赋予多数世界学者权力,培养忠诚,并导致长期的理论和方法学的进步.
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