The purpose of this paper was to evaluate six Brazilian psychology journals (Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa; Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica; Psico; Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia; Psicologia USP e Boletim de Psicologia), edited between 1990 and 1997. We examined 749 papers in 80 issues of these journals. Three main questions were examined: the journals’ editorial practices, the authors’ profile, and the type of institutions with which they were affiliated. The results showed that: there are few researchers publishing systematically in Brazil; that the authors were concentrated in few institutions in the Southeast-South regions; and that researchers in public universities are more productive than those in private ones. The data also showed a relationship between the number of published papers and the existence of graduate programs in these universities and between the researchers’ institutional affiliation and the journal in which they published.
Scientific production; journals; scientometrics; Brazilian Psychology
