{"id":1893,"date":"2025-10-30T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:55:35","slug":"30-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/2025\/10\/30\/30-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"30\/10\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WEIRD Psychological Science &#8211; Geographical and Gender Patterns of Knowledge Production<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lejla D\u017eanko (SWPS Warsaw University, University of Padova)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors from Western, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) countries comprise 12% of the scientific community, but accounted for 60-88% of authorship in the six most prominent APA Journals. To examine the current distribution of authors&#8217; characteristics in recent years, especially after the onset of COVID-19, we inspected papers published between 2019 and 2023. Unlike earlier studies, we considered the entire sample of psychology journals indexed in Scopus (N_journals=1,407; N_articles=429,733), regardless of the impact factor. The two demographic variables that could be coded from author data (N_authors =642,698) were gender and country of affiliation. The results indicated that there are more WEIRD (vs. non-WEIRD) authors overall, but this number has been decreasing for the last five years. Yet, the probability of being published in a prestigious journal is still higher for WEIRD authors. The number of female (vs male) authors was consistent over time, while the relationship between gender and journal prestige was unsystematic.<br>Having in mind the arguments for the need for diversification of science, we beg the question of whether the prestigious journals indeed represent good scientific practices.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEIRD Psychological Science &#8211; Geographical and Gender Patterns of Knowledge Production &#8211; Lejla D\u017eanko (SWPS Warsaw University, University of Padova)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}