Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date

2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Department

Psychology

Committee Chair

Randy Floyd

Committee Member

Thomas Fagan

Committee Member

Xu (Lilya) Jiang

Committee Member

George Relyea

Abstract

Bibliometric analyses have been the primary form of examining and evaluating literature within a field of study. By focusing on citation count and source, researchers have been able to identify journal articles considered to be high impact in reach and relevance, branding them citation classics in a field (Garfield, 1977, 1979). As time progresses, technology, methods, and metrics for conducting these analyses have improved, and although there have been several studies designed to identify citation classics and patterns of citations supporting them in school psychology literature (e.g., Liu & Oakland, 2016; Price, Floyd, Fagan, & Smithson, 2011), none have done so in an updated, comprehensive manner. To address these limitations, the current study aims to replicate and extend these works in four major ways: (a) including all 11 primary school psychology journals (Floyd, 2018; Hulac, Johnson, Ushijima, & Schneider, 2016) in the search, (b) using three of the most common databases for literature, (c) collapsing results across these databases to accurately identify the most impactful articles, and (d) conducting bibliometric and historiographic analyses using network mapping to determine linkages within the literature.

Comments

Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest

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