Faruk Tayyip Yalcin
I am a graduate student in Social Psychology at Penn State University, working with C. Daryl Cameron in the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab (EMP Lab). My interests include bibliometric metascience, statistical and theoretical inference, morality, empathy, and moral outrage.
The Pennsylvania State University
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Session
Despite calls for “slow science” and reducing WEIRDness of psychology, we lack large-scale comparative evidence on psychology’s publication pace and Western concentration of authorship. Using SciSciNet (Lin et al., 2023; AI–harvested bibliometric data lake, ~134M publications), we compare psychology vs. economics, political science, and sociology on publication volume, papers-per-author, authors-per-paper, and the global distribution of authorship: Psychology leads on all metrics ~13M papers (vs. ~7–9M), 1.52 papers–per–author (vs. 1.22–1.31), and 3.52 authors–per–paper (vs. 2.15–2.63). Psychology authorship is slightly more Western-concentrated (69.62% vs. 58.42–67.54%; U.S. share 36.49% vs. 25.76–32.44%), though missing affiliation data warrants caution. We also compare psychology subfields. Overall, these concerns may apply most strongly to psychology, but explaining cross-field differences requires evidence beyond publication and authorship counts.