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There has been considerable study of journals in psychology, both through the collection of ratings of excellence by journal readers (Koulack Porter, 1976; Rushton White Buss Gynther, 1973; Hohn and Fine, 1973; Levin that is, which is most cited, what is the average number of citations per article, etc., (b) the sources that most cited the literature appearing in these three journals; this gives an indication of the interjournal communication network within the educational literature, and (c) the citation characteristics of the most cited articles in each of these journals.
Smith et al. (1981) studied this question.