John P. Campbell: award for distinguished scientific applications of psychology

Presents the citation for John P. Campbell who received Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology "for his many different contributions to the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Mona M. Amer: APA/APAGS award for distinguished graduate student in professional psychology

Presents the citation of Mona M. Amer, who received the APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology "for her outstanding and innovative leadership in addressing the mental health needs of Muslim and Arab Americans." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Gregory Daniel Webster: Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award

Presents a citation for Gregory Daniel Webster, who received the Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award "for an outstanding research paper whose findings report that APA journal articles became shorter in length after the year 2000." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Citation Classics in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior: A Research Note

The number of citations a scholarly work receives is a common measure of its impact on the scientific literature; “citation classics” are the most highly cited works. The content of Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior (SLTB) citation classics is described here. The impact of SLTB citation classics is compared to their counterparts in journals having published the most suicide papers. All data are from the ISI electronic venue on the Web of Science and refer to the number of citations the top 1% of works received in each of ten journals from 1975 through August 10, 2011. Among all ten journals, SLTB ranked first in the number of works on suicide. The principle theme of half of SLTB suicide classics was literature review. The median number of citations for SLTB citation classics (top 1%) was 121.5, with a range between 96 and 279 citations, but classics from generalized psychiatric journals received more citations as anticipated. Journal impact factors explained 73% of the variance in classic’s citation counts across journals. On average, suicide classics received 30% more citations than all classics. Among a second group of five specialized suicide journals, however, SLTB ranked first in average 5‐year impact. Although SLTB produced the highest number of suicide articles of any journal, SLTB’s citation classics received fewer citations than suicide classics in high‐impact/prestige, general journals. Future work is needed to assess what predicts which SLTB articles ultimately become citation classics.     

Thomas J. Fagan: award for distinguished professional contributions to practice in the public sector

Presents the citation for Thomas J. Fagan, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector "for his service as a leader in correctional psychology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Angela Bryan: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Angela Bryan, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (health psychology) "for her outstanding theoretical and applied research on health behavior change." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Stephen M. Weiss: award for distinguished professional contributions to applied research

Presents the citation for Stephen M. Weiss, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research "for his work as an internationally recognized leader in the fields of health psychology and behavioral medicine." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Brian J. Scholl: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Brian J. Scholl, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology "for his brilliantly creative and sweepingly broad research program that addresses the hard questions in cognitive science." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

McCay Vernon: award for distinguished senior career contributions to psychology in the public interest

Presents a citation for McCay Vernon, who received the Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest "for fifty-five years of distinguished contributions toward improving the lives of both deaf and deaf-blind individuals." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Vernon's award address, The APA and Deafness. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Anthony D. Wagner: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Anthony D. Wagner, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (cognition and human learning) "for outstanding and innovative research on the neural basis of memory and executive control." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Mark G. Baxter: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Mark G. Baxter, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (animal learning and behavior, comparative) "for insightful and incisive contributions in studies of learning, memory, attentional processing, executive function, and goal-directed behavior in work that has translated across species." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Seth D. Pollak: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Seth D. Pollak, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (developmental psychology) "for his research on the mechanisms of emotional development using an innovative combination of methods from psychophysics, neuroscience, and behavioral endocrinology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Author gender differences in psychology citation impact 1996–2018

Academic psychology in the USA is a gender success story in terms of overturning its early male dominance but there are still relatively few senior female psychology researchers. To assess whether there are gender differences in citation impact that might help to explain either of these trends, this study investigates psychology articles since 1996. Seven out of eight Scopus psychology categories had a majority of female first-authored journal articles by 2018. From regression analyses of first and last author gender and team size, female first authors associate with a slightly higher average citation impact, but extra authors have a 10 times stronger association with higher average citation impact. Last author gender has little association with citation impact. Female first authors are more likely to be in larger teams and if team size is attributed to the first author's work, then their apparent influence of female first authors on citation impact doubles. While gender differences in average citation impact are too small to account for gender-related trends in academic psychology, they warn that male-dominated citation-based ranking lists of psychologists do not reflect the state of psychology research today.     

Mark D. Cunningham: award for distinguished contributions to research in public policy

Presents a citation for Mark D. Cunningham, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy "for his highly distinguished contributions to research on death-sentenced inmates, capital sentencing determinations, and law." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Cunningham's award address, entitled Dangerousness and Death: A Nexus in Search of Science and Reason. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Janet E. Helms: award for distinguished contributions to education and training in psychology

Presents a citation for Janet E. Helms, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology "for her remarkable contribution to a conceptual and reiterative empirical base that has transformed the study of racism in our time." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Helms' award address, entitled Fairness Is Not Validity or Cultural Bias in Racial-Group Assessment: A Quantitative Perspective. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Michael C. Roberts: award for distinguished contributions to education and training in psychology

Presents a citation for Michael C. Roberts, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology "for his dedication to the education, training, and mentoring of psychologists from undergraduate study through professional career." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Roberts' award address, entitled Essential Tension: Specialization With Broad and General Training in Psychology. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Theodore P. Beauchaine: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology

Presents the citation for Theodore P. Beauchaine, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (psychopathology) "for core contributions in developmental psychopathology, especially related to the biological underpinnings of various mental disorders among children, sophisticated and elegant quantitative approaches to these issues, and exemplary work on the prevention of such conditions." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Michael Cole: award for distinguished contributions to the international advancement of psychology

Presents the citation for Michael Cole, who received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology "for his significant and influential contributions to understanding the cultural and historical construction of human life and the implications of collective social practices for human development." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Cole's award address, entitled Internationalism in Psychology: We Need It Now More Than Ever. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Jeffrey J. Magnavita: award for distinguished professional contributions to independent or institutional practice in the private sector

Presents the citation for Jeffrey J. Magnavita, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector "for his passionate devotion to the advancement of the practice and science of psychotherapy." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Magnavita's award address, entitled In Search of the Unifying Principles of Psychotherapy: Conceptual, Empirical, and Clinical Convergence. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).     

Michael Davis: 2006 award for distinguished scientific contributions

Presents the citation for Michael Davis, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions "for his major discoveries about the brain circuits underlying basic aspects of behavioral plasticity and learning." A brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Davis' award address, entitled Neural Systems Involved in Fear and Anxiety Measured With Fear-Potentiated Startle, accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).