Abstract
Bibliometric analysis of the journal "Psicothema" (1989-1997). This work presents a bibliometric analysis of the journal "Psicothema" from the time of its first appearance in 1989 until July 1997. The principal findings were as follows: a total of 342 articles were published in 20 volumes, with an average of 17.1 articles per journal edition. 38.81% of the articles were the work of 2 authors, 28.94% were by one author and 19% by three authors, this being an average of 2.272 authors per article. The most prolific author was P.J. Ferrando Piera, who was responsible for 8 articles, followed by M.C. Luciano with 7 articles, and by 4 authors with 6 articles each. 94.35% of the authors of the articles were based at universities. 17.19% of them at the University of Oviedo and 11.54% at the Complutense University of Madrid. In accordance with their thematic content we found that 28.36% of the articles corresponded to the category of "Basic Psychology", 23.97% to "Methodology" and 23.09% to "Personality, Evaluation and Treatment".
