Abstract
When they became the first chief editors of the International Review of Social Psychology (IRSP), the goal of Robert Pages and Janine Larrue was to provide better access to texts and research in social psychology. Their legacy continues and extends today. For the 30th anniversary of the journal, the following contribution intends to retrace its origins and evolutions. Following an overview of the history of IRSP, we propose to analyze the characteristics of the articles that have been published during the 30 years of existence of the journal and their evolution over time. For this purpose, we developed a database—available at: osf.io/69x47 —containing the characteristics of the articles published between 1988 and May 1, 2018 (i.e., for each year: title of the articles, volume, type, authors’ names, sex and institutional affiliation, length and associated keywords). This database can be useful to browse IRSP’s literature and facilitate reference search, but can also be used for further research on the evolution of the scientific literature in social psychology (e.g., analysis of the characteristics of the authors/published contents of the field).
Highlights
When they became the first chief editors of the International Review of Social Psychology (IRSP), the goal of Robert Pagès and Janine Larrue was to provide better access to specialized literature of the discipline at a time when it was scarce (Delouvée, 2013; Pagès, 1979)
The primary purpose of the association at this time was to edit a journal devoted to the diffusion of international research in social psychology
The IRSP was built on pre-existing foundations: it came from the merger of two journals that existed until 1987, which were edited by the laboratories of the first two chief editors of the IRSP
Summary
When they became the first chief editors of the International Review of Social Psychology (IRSP), the goal of Robert Pagès and Janine Larrue was to provide better access to specialized literature of the discipline at a time when it was scarce (Delouvée, 2013; Pagès, 1979). In the editorial of the first issue, Robert Pagès presented the journal as ‘an initiative of the Laboratory of Social Psychology of Université Paris 7 (the former social psychology laboratory of Sorbonne Université), associated with the National Center for Scientific Research’ and the issue as ‘a first volume of a publication [we] hope to renew with increasing regularity’ (Pagès, 1979: 3, our translation).1 This issue includes ‘several experimental studies in social psychology [...] but it includes theoretical notes, historical analyzes of the discipline, discussion articles or literature reviews’ (Pagès, 1979: 3, our translation).. In 1988, Research of Social Psychology and Psychology and Education merged to become the International Review of Social Psychology (IRSP)
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