Linguistic isolation of American social psychology: A comparative study of journal citations

Examined articles in 9 social psychology (SP) journals from 5-yr intervals between 1945 and 1970 to determine the extent of linguistic isolation in SP, the historical development of isolation, and the extent of isolation relative to other scientific disciplines. Results indicate that 98.2% of citations were to English language sources and that US social sciences tend to be linguistically isolated in comparison to US physical sciences.