Fifteen Years (1996-2010) of the Revista de Psicodidactica/Journal of Psychodidactics

This paper offers an overview of the development of the Revista de Psicodidactica/Journal of Psychodidactis since its creation in 1996 to the year 2010. With the exception of the year 2004, in which only one issue was published, the journal has been published regularly every six months, making a total of 29 issues. This paper provides bibliometric data about the authors whose work has featured in the journal, the origin (university and region/country) of the papers published and the fields of knowledge and themes dealt with. The number of papers focusing on different psychopedagogic areas varies widely, probably as a reflection of the unequal development of research in the different fields. Also, when the data from the three five-year periods (the initial period, the maintenance period and the period of transformation) are compared, a clear development becomes apparent: at first, the journal was a regional publication, featuring mainly authors from the immediate environment; over recent years, however, it has become a publication which features a growing number of external authors and which complies with the requisites established by journal quality assessment agencies. Analysing this trajectory enables us both to determine the journal's identifying characteristics and to establish future objectives.