Titles in highly ranked multidisciplinary psychology journals 1966-2011: More words and punctuation marks allow for the communication of more information

Psychological Reports

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 969-986

  Whissell, Cynthia ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; TIME;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893520358     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/28.17.PR0.113x30z5     Document Type: Article

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