María Peñaranda-Ortega’s research while affiliated with University of Murcia and other places

Son muchas las investigadoras que contribuyen al desarrollo de un campo científico. Algunas de ellas destacan particularmente en un área específica. Mediante los indicadores bibliométricos, podemos conocer las aportaciones de estas investigadoras en cuanto a su producción, impacto o coautoría, entre otras variables. El objetivo de este trabajo es rendir homenaje a Julia Osca Lluch, una de las grandes investigadoras en el campo de la Documentación Científica en el ámbito español. Tras consultar diferentes bases de datos y repositorios se procedió al análisis de la producción científica y el análisis de redes de coautoría de los artículos publicados por Julia Osca Lluch. Su obra se concretó en 45 libros y capítulos de libro, 9 tesis doctorales dirigidas y 90 artículos científicos. Sus artículos fueron publicados en 48 revistas, destacando la Revista Española de Documentación Científica y Anales de Psicología. Un 80% de estos fueron realizados en colaboración, principalmente con investigadores de la Universidad de Valencia, el Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación “López Piñero” y la Universidad de Murcia. Se puede concluir que Julia Osca Lluch contribuyó al desarrollo de la documentación científica en España, principalmente en el área de las ciencias de la salud, destacando sus trabajos relacionados con la Psicología.

Background: Legalizing medical and recreational cannabis and decriminalizing this substance may have unanticipated effects on traffic safety. The present study aimed to assess the impact of cannabis legalization on traffic accidents. Methods: A systematic review was carried out following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) declaration of the articles included in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. The number of papers included in the review was 29. Results: The results show that in 15 papers, there is a relationship between the legalization of medical and/or recreational cannabis and the number of traffic accidents, while in 5 papers, no such relationship is observed. In addition, nine articles indicate a greater number of risk behaviors related to driving after consumption, identifying young, male, and alcohol consumption together with cannabis as the risk profile. Conclusions: It can be concluded that the legalization of medical and/or recreational cannabis has negative effects on road safety when considering the number of jobs that affect the number of fatalities.

Although fully automated vehicles (SAE level 5) are expected to acquire a major relevance for transportation dynamics by the next few years, the number of studies addressing their perceived benefits from the perspective of human factors remains substantially limited. This study aimed, firstly, to assess the relationships among drivers’ demographic factors, their assessment of five key features of automated vehicles (i.e., increased connectivity, reduced driving demands, fuel and trip-related efficiency, and safety improvements), and their intention to use them, and secondly, to test the predictive role of the feature’ valuations over usage intention, focusing on gender as a key differentiating factor. For this cross-sectional research, the data gathered from a sample of 856 licensed drivers (49.4% females, 50.6% males; M = 40.05 years), responding to an electronic survey, was analyzed. Demographic, driving-related data, and attitudinal factors were comparatively analyzed through robust tests and a bias-corrected Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling (MGSEM) approach. Findings from this work suggest that drivers’ assessment of these AV features keep a significant set of multivariate relationships to their usage intention in the future. Additionally, and even though there are some few structural similarities, drivers’ intention to use an AV can be differentially explained according to their gender. So far, this research constitutes a first approximation to the intention of using AVs from a MGSEM gender-based approach, being these results of potential interest for researchers and practitioners from different fields, including automotive design, transport planning and road safety.

En el presente trabajo se evalúan los costes de publicación (Article Processing Charges) que se exigen por parte de las editoriales científicas, derivados de la publicación de artículos en sus revistas. Se han seleccionado las revistas incluidas en los cuartiles 1 y 2 (Q1, Q2) en el Journal Citation Reports (JCR) para las once categorías en las que se subdivide Psychology, durante los años 2017 y 2018. Se ha calculado el coste mayor o Golden OA y transformado en euros para todas las cantidades requeridas por parte de las editoriales. Para el total de 632 revistas analizadas en estos dos años, el coste final es de 135.514.886,39 €, de los cuales 67.027.213,11 € pertenecen a las revistas del JCR 2017 y 68.487.673,28 € a JCR 2018. La media de coste de publicación de un trabajo fue de 2321,55 €. Son numerosas las conclusiones sobre la política científica y de publicación que los Estados deberían repensar.

El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar la evolución de la colaboración científica en la psicología española a través de trabajos firmados por un autor o autora perteneciente a una institución española de psicología entre 1970 y 1989. Se analizaron un total de 2891 trabajos publicados en 29 revistas de psicología entre los años 1970 y 1989, analizando la colaboración científica a través del estudio de redes mediante el programa UCINET y el software Netdraw. Los resultados indican que a lo largo de los años se produce un aumento del número de trabajos, autores y firmas, así como de la colaboración científica, siendo en el periodo entre 1985 y 1989 cuando los trabajos en coautoría superan al número de trabajos firmados por un solo autor. Se muestra que el número de autores, así como de los grupos de colaboracion aumentan a lo largo de los años estudiados. Se puede concluir que es en la segunda mitad de la década de los años 80 cuando se produce un aumento considerable de la colaboración científica en la psicología española. The objective of this research is to analyse the evolution of scientific collaboration within Spanish psychology through papers signed by an author who belonged to a Spanish institution of psychology between 1970 and 1989. We analysed a total of 2891 papers published in 29 journals of psychology between 1970 and 1989, examining the scientific collaboration through network analysis, using the UCINET program and Netdraw software. The results indicated that there has been an increased number of papers, authors and signatures over the years, as well as an increased scientific collaboration. Between 1985 and 1989, co-authored papers overcame single-author papers. It is shown that the number of authors, as well as of collaboration groups, increased over the years under study. It can be concluded that it was in the second half of the 1980s when scientific collaboration within Spanish psychology increased considerably.

This paper analyses all psychology journals included in the different categories of the JCR (SCI and SSCI) and SJR databases during the period 2014-2016 in order to identify the journals that are better positioned in the discipline, and the specialities and countries with the highest number of publications indexed in such databases. Method: The distribution of psychology journals by country, quartile, and subject category was studied in order to determine the total number and position of journals in each country, and to identify the countries with more journals of ‘excellence’ in psychology in the international scene. Results: The United States and the United Kingdom had the highest number of journals included in the databases, as well as the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain. Only 11 countries have psychology journals in quartile 1 in JCR, and 14 in SJR databases. Conclusions: As a result of the application of new evaluation criteria in psychology research in Spain, the paper addresses the difficulties and consequences that some of these measures may have for the survival of psychology journals that do not have a position in quartile 1 or 2 in the databases used for the evaluation of professionals’ research in this discipline

La disparidad de áreas de la Psicología Jurídica requiere de una formación especializada. La formación de posgrado a través de la oferta de másteres oficiales y títulos propios posibilita una formación de calidad en esta área. Actualmente existen 4 másteres oficiales y 11 másteres propios, repartidos en universidades por todo el territorio español y abarcan gran parte de las áreas de intervención del psicólogo jurídico y forense. Mientras que los másteres oficiales cuentan con un número similar de créditos, principalmente de naturaleza presencial y con prácticas obligatorias, en los másteres de títulos propios los créditos varían de 60 a 80 créditos, con escasa capacidad optativa, predominancia de una formación semipresencial o a distancia y las prácticas suelen ser voluntarias. Se puede concluir que la formación de posgrado ofertada por las universidades e institutos adscritos a las mismas permite dar respuesta a las demandas profesionales de los psicólogos jurídicos y forenses.

The main objective of this study is to figure out the volume and evolution of the Spanish scientific production in Psychology based in the data provided by the databases Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (Elsevier) during the years 2000-2009. It is proposed to determine which are the scientific journals used by most Spanish psychologists to spread their research at an international level; and to compare the coverage and overlap of the journals and documents that are present in both databases. Quantitative data is offered, as well as the possible correlation between both databases is studied and the overlap of documents and journals is analyzed, such as the increase model that is present and the dispersion of the articles, among others. The results demonstrate that both information systems are complementary but not exclusive, as well as the relevance and importance of the Spanish journals in Psychology which use the diffusion of the research in this discipline in the international science context.

This paper shows the results obtained on the analysis of the journal Anales de Psicología. In this article, authors analyze the collaboration between authors, institutions and countries for this journal. This collaborational analysis is made on the basis of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) with the software Pajek and Ucinet. The studied period covers from 1984 to 2009, which are the first 25 years of Anales de Psicologia journal. Results indicate a great increase of collaboration in the last years of life of this scientifical journal. Specifically, 955 authors, belonging to 161 institutions of 21 countries, have been publishing on it. Collaboration results of these researchers are showen, more precisely, the resulting collaborations between authors, institutions, and the established networks between the countries that have contributed to the accomplishment of the papers edited in this journal.

A bibliometric analysis of the first 36 years (1965-2000) of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) is presented. The authors analyzed the structure of JPSP on the basis of contents and other aspects related to productivity, such as growth in the number of articles and authors, and "invisible colleges." In 2001, JPSP articles were cited over 23,000 times. An increasing number of older, classic articles are cited, suggesting that there are an accumulating number of citations whose influence endures over time. JPSP articles have grown in length, number of studies included, number of references, and number of authors and have become more international with an increasing proportion of authors from outside the United States. The pattern of findings suggests an increasingly complex and mature science.