Hot topics and popular papers in evolutionary psychology: Analyses of title words and citation counts in evolution and human behavior, 1979 - 2008

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-362

  Webster, Gregory D ^a   Jonason, Peter K ^b   Schember, Tatiana Orozco ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Matthew effect; Metascience; Pareto 80 20 rule; Publication trends; Reciprocal altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949505953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470490900700301     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adair, J. G., and Vohra, N. (2003). The explosion of knowledge, references, and citations: Psychology's unique response to a crisis. American Psychologist, 58, 15-23.
2. Barabási, A.-L. (2003). Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, sciences, and everyday life. New York: Plume.
3. Cornwell, R. E., Palmer, C., Guinther, P. M., and Davis, H. P. (2005). Introductory psychology texts as a view of sociobiology/evolutionary psychology's role in psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 3, 355-374.
4. Gangestad, S. W. (2008a, Winter). View from the president's window. HBES Winter 2008 Newsletter, pp. 2-4.
5. Gangestad, S. W. (2008b, Summer). View from the president's window: More on patterns of citation. HBES Summer 2008 Newsletter, pp. 2-4.
6. Gangestad, S. W., Thornhill, R., and Yeo, R. (1994). Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry. Ethology and Sociobiology, 15, 73-85.
7. Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York, NY: Little, Brown.
8. Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Penton-Voak, I. S., Tiddeman, B. P., Burt, D. M., and Perrett, D. I., (2001). Facial symmetry and judgments of apparent health Support for a "good genes" explanation of the attractiveness-symmetry relationship. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 417-429.
9. Judd, C. M., McClelland, G. H., and Ryan, C. S. (2008). Data analysis: A model- comparison approach (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
10. Kenny, D. A. (2004). Correlation and causality (Rev. ed.). Retrieved August 9, 2005 from http://davidkenny.net/doc/cc_v1.pdf
11. Mayr, E. (1983). How to carry out the adaptionist program? American Naturalist, 121, 324- 334.
12. Merton, R. K. (1968). The Matthew effect in science. Science, 159, 56-63.
13. Putz, D. A., Gaulin, S. J. C., Sporter, R. J., and McBurney, D. H. (2004). Sex hormones and finger length: What does 2D:4D indicate? Evolution and Human Behavior, 25, 182-199.
14. Reis, H. T., and Stiller, J. (1992). Publication trends in JPSP: A three-decade review. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 465-472.
15. Singh, D., and Young, R. K. (1995). Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgments of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships. Ethology and Sociobiology, 16, 483-507.
16. Taleb, N. N. (2007). The black swan: The impact of the highly improbable. New York: Random House.
17. Trivers, R. L. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology, 46, 35-57.
18. Webster, G. D. (2007a). Evolutionary theory in cognitive neuroscience: A 20-year quantitative review of publication trends. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 520-530.
19. Webster, G. D. (2007b). Evolutionary theory's increasing role in personality and social psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 84-91.
20. Webster, G. D. (2007c, Winter). Increasing impact, diversity, and empiricism: The evolution of Evolution and Human Behavior, 1980-2004. HBES Winter 2007 Newsletter, pp. 16-19.
21. Webster, G. D. (2007d). The demise of the increasingly protracted APA journal article? American Psychologist, 62, 255-257.
22. Webster, G. D. (2007e). What's in a name: Is "evolutionary psychology" eclipsing "sociobiology" in the scientific literature? Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 683-695.
23. Webster, G. D. (2008). An emerging psychology of science: A quantitative review of publication trends in the metasciences. Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology, 1, 6-14.
24. th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
25. Webster, G. D., and Nichols, A. L. (2009, Spring). Trends and hot topics in personality and social psychology: An analysis of SPSP poster title words from 2005 and 2009. Dialogue, 24(1), pp. 16-19 [Newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology].
26. Wuchty, S., Jones, B. F., and Uzzi, B. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science, 316, 1036-1039.