O analiză a rezumatelor articolelor de psihologie din revistele apărute în Cluj-Napoca
An analysis of the abstracts of psychology articles from the journals published in Cluj-Napoca

Summary/Abstract: The paper follows the extent to which the requirements on the content of the abstracts in four scientific journals from Cluj-Napoca publishing psychology articles are met: The Annual Review (Yearbook) of the «George Bariţiu» History Institute in Cluj-Napoca, Series Humanistica; Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal; Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, and Studia Psychologia-Paedagogia. Requirements on the content of abstracts have been formulated from the consultations dedicated to this topic and are generally based on the indications given by The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, sixth edition. They are dependent on the type of research described in the article accompanied by the abstract. The following types of research have been considered: empirical research, narrative review (nonsystematic review, literature reviews), systematic reviews (research synthesis), metaanalysis, case study, and method or instrument development. All the psychology articles from the four journals published in 2009-2018 (N = 550) were analyzed. None of the journals specify in the author's instructions what information should be included in the abstracts. For this reason, the content of abstracts analyzed differs according to the authors of the articles. For each type of research, there is a very low frequency of abstracts that meet all or almost all of the requirements. The research should be extended to all journals containing psychology articles published in Romania.

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