APA PsycInfo research services are fully responsive on any device.
Think of APA PsycInfo research services as your personal psychology research assistant.
Your institution’s subscription to APA PsycInfo provides courtesy access to a suite of complimentary, premium features to aid the search process. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, these services support students, researchers, and faculty as they monitor the latest research trends, explore analytics, and personalize content discovery—all within the most trusted index of psychological science in the world.
Read on for an overview of the main features within APA PsycInfo research services, and tips on using its many discovery tools.
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Top Features
Whether you’re looking for something specific, or broadening your search – these unique tools help researchers explore specific interests in a variety of ways.
Topic Mapper
Access Topic Mapper by selecting the blue Topic Mapper icon within any selected record.
Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history notes, and more.
Access Topic Mapper by clicking into any record, and find the “Explore” section with the Topic Mapper icon. Click to view the topic visualization of the selected term. Select any topic of interest to begin. Learn more about Topic Mapper in this two-minute guide.
See an example of Topic Mapper here.
Explore Journal
Explore Journal features are built to help researchers examine the content within a journal of interest.
Explore Journal is a deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles.
To access Explore Journal, select any hyperlinked journal title or navigate to the “Journal” button under the “Explore” section.
Want to see what Explore Journal can do for you? Visit our tutorial on Five Ways to Use Explore Journal here.
See an example of Analyze & Filter here.
Analyze & Filter
Deepen your research with Analyze & Filter, a comprehensive journal analysis feature of APA PsycInfo research services that enhances discovery of a journal’s trends and core strengths through layered filters.
This tool will allow researchers to pinpoint a journal’s most prolific author, identify a main topic of coverage, or combine filters for the top authors on specific topics. Users can easily confirm the most prevalent methodologies overall, those for a selected author (or two), track changes to those statistics over time by adjusting the publication dates filter, or create unique filter parameters.
Find this feature within Explore Journal, where you can see the anatomy of a selected journal by its publication years, content types, topics, authors, and methodologies. From there, find content of interest or track journal statistics by selecting the most relevant filters. Select as many or as few filter criteria across the various fields, in any combination, that best suit your research needs. The optional layers of analysis are numerous and entirely up to you!
The results at the bottom of the screen will change as you customize options, and selections are indicated by the multicolored tags at the top of the Analyze & Filter feature.
Access Analyze & Filter by selecting a hyperlinked journal title or navigating to “Journal” under the “Explore” section of any record and then expanding the purple “Analyze & Filter” drop-down.
See an example of Analyze & Filter here.
Citation Mapper
Visually explore the full breadth of a record’s relationship to other research using Citation Mapper. This feature graphically displays both cited and citing documents associated with any record you select.
To access Citation Mapper, scroll to the “Explore” section after selecting any record from your weekly notification email, and click the blue “Citation Mapper” button. Visit the two-minute tutorial on navigating this interactive, visual network of citations here, or see an example on this page.
Discover APA PsycInfo
Uncover AI-curated journals, books, and dissertations that may be of interest with Discover APA PsycInfo. Generated with your selected research topics and previous content engagement in mind, this personalized discovery tool is a great starting point to find relevant research in your areas of interest. Find top journals and books from your email notifications (if you subscribe), trending publications on your topics of interest, as well as AI-generated suggestions for new literature that you may be interested in.
To access this tool, visit the Discover APA PsycInfo page here, or navigate to the Discover APA PsycInfo option in the hamburger menu on psycinfo.apa.org.
Author Mapper
Take a closer look at the relationships between authors of APA PsycInfo publications with Author Mapper. With the help of the Legend, Author Mapper displays the co-authors of a selected researcher, as well as how many publications each pair has co-authored, how many total publications each researcher has indexed in APA PsycInfo, and the number of citations they’ve received.
It’s the only tool that gives researchers a quick visual snapshot of an author’s publishing activity. This unique resource can also be used to identify future collaborators due to shared research interests.
Find Author Mapper by selecting any record and then navigating to the blue “Explore” section, or visit this page to try an example.
Other Helpful Features
Learn the basics of navigating APA PsycInfo research services.
Weekly Notification Email
With this feature, you can opt in to receive a weekly notification of new content in your subject area that you have not previously received. As you engage with the updates, the service will utilize AI and Machine Learning to continuously refine future results and ensure content is tailored to your research needs. Within each email, you’ll find:
- New Features – any updates on the latest release of content discovery tools.
- Topics – the topic(s) designated in your preferences that were used to compile your research update.
- Table of Contents – the various available record types (articles, books, preprints, conferences, PubMed, etc.), hyperlinked to their corresponding section.
- Research – all relevant records, linked to all citation and abstract information, their full APA PsycInfo record, and access to Topic Mapper, Explore Journal, and related content.
Register for your free weekly notifications here.
Preference Management Center
Choose whether you’d like to receive PubMed articles, Citation Notifications, or edit your research topics of interest here.
Explore All Notifications
Take a look through the archive of every record you’ve received in weekly updates (if you’ve registered) from APA PsycInfo research services in Explore All Notifications. Sort by content type, date received, publication date, title, or author.
Citation Notifications
Stay notified when your publications are cited in new literature with optional Citation Notifications. To begin receiving updates about other researchers citing your content, enable them in your Preference Management Center.
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