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Psychology: Journals

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Psychology Journals

 

 

HCU subscribes to a large number of psychology journals, most of which are available online.  The list below is only a sampling of the most important journals.  All of the journals listed are among the top 50 psychology journals as ranked by their Journal Citation Reports impact. For a more complete list see the library's Publication Locator.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

What Does "Peer Reviewed" or "Refereed" Mean? Peer Review is a process that journals use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc.

Publications that don't use peer review (ie. Time, Newsweek, or Psychology Today) just rely on the judgment of the editors whether an article is up to snuff or not. That's why you can't count on them for solid, scientific scholarship.

 

Moody Library is pleased to offer remote access to the library's many databases. The databases are available to currently-enrolled HCU students, faculty, and staff.  An HCU network User ID and password is required for proper authentication.

  • Limit to "Peer Reviewed" or "Scholarly Journals"
  • Limit to the correct audience, eg. PsycInfo allows you to limit to a "Professional and Research Audience" or a "General Audience"
  • Limit by document type.  Many databases, and especially PsycInfo include journal articles, books, and other types of information.  If you only want journal articles, be sure to limit to them.
  • Do not necessarily limit to full text only, because in doing that you will eliminate articles that are available in full text in other databases.  Instead use the "Linksource" link to try to find those articles in other databases.
  • If you retrieve too many articles, then you might then want to limit to "full-text" only just to cut down the number of articles that you retrieve.