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The Import and Export of Cognitive Science
Author(s) -
Goldstone Robert L.,
Leydesdorff Loet
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_96
Subject(s) - goldstone , citation , psychological science , library science , cognition , psychology , cognitive science , computer science , social psychology , neuroscience , geography , geodesy
From its inception, a large part of the motivation for Cognitive Science hasbeen the need for an interdisciplinary journal for the study of minds andintelligent systems. One threat to the interdisciplinarity of CognitiveScience, both the field and journal, is that it may become, or already be, toodominated by psychologists. In 2005, psychology was a keyword for 51% ofsubmissions, followed distantly by linguistics (17%), artificial intelligence(13%), neuroscience (10%), computer science (9%), and philosophy (8%). TheInstitute for Scientific Information (ISI) gathers data not only on howindividual articles cite one another, but also on macroscopic citation patternsamong journals. Journals or sets of journals can be considered as proxies forfields. As fields become established, they often create journals. By studyingthe patterns of citations among journals that cite and are cited by CognitiveScience, we can better: 1) appreciate the scholarly ecology surrounding thejournal and the journals role within this ecology, 2) establish competitor andalternate journals, and 3) determine the natural clustering of fields relatedto cognitive science.