Livelli e fattori della produttività scientifica della psicologia accademica. Un’analisi bibliometrica.

Summary. The survey concerns the bibliometric analysis of the scientific productivity of the 8 Scientific Areas in which the Academic Italian System of Psychology is subdivided (Settori Scientifico-Disciplinari, SSD). To this end, data were retrieved from the Scopus (available at March 2012), one of the most internationally representative scientific da- tabases. Results shows that the Scientific Areas differ from each other with respect to productivity but they tend to show similar rates of growth. Moreover, the Scientific Ar- eas show different organizational characteristics (extension of the collaborative networks, language of publication, number of the international co-authorships); these characteris- tics, in turn, were associated with different level of bibliometric performance.