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Categorization of Academic Papers by Types of Contributions: Comparison of KJCBP and JEP: General

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2015, v.27 no.4, pp.659-677
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2015.27.4.004



& (2015). Categorization of Academic Papers by Types of Contributions: Comparison of KJCBP and JEP: General. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 27(4), 659-677, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2015.27.4.004
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Researchers of today face a flood of academic papers, yet they have few practical means of recognizing the quality or type of those papers. The current study aims to realize and implement two frames that can categorize research papers according to how they contribute to the advancement of the field. Spellman, DeLoache, and Bjork(2007) suggested 5 types of claims that researchers make in their papers and Sternberg, Kaufman, and Pretz(2002) invented a way to categorize creative findings according to the type of their contributions. We utilized these two sets of categories to assort recent(2012∼2014) papers from Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology(KJCBP) as well as American Journal of Experimental Psychology: General(JEP: General). Results showed that relatively few papers challenge dominant theories or develop new approaches in order to reject or replace current theories, while more than half of the research in both journals seemed to accept and support the prior findings. After further improvement, this categorization scheme may provide reliable guideline in assessing whether a research is meaningful and contributing.

keywords
논문평가, 연구동향, 주장의 유형, 추진 모형, 창의성, research assessment, trends analysis, types of claims, Propulsion Model, creativity

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