Content Analysis of Iranian Psychological Journals: Research Topics and Methods

his study aimed the content analysis of academic articles in psychology journals. Three hundred seventeen articles of seven scientific Iranian journals published in 2005-2007 were given randomly to 6 psychology researchers to content analysis regarding their topics and research methods. Another researcher reanalyzed 20% of the target articles randomly (in- terrater correlation coefficient = 0.85). Findings demonstrated that the areas of health, developmental, educational, clinical, and counseling psychology were the most frequent subjects. The most common designs were test standardization, correlational, causal-models, experimental and quasi-experimental studies. No articles about sport psychology or any articles based on qualitative methods were found.