Abstract
Limited international authorship in psychological journals is one indicator of the need for greater internationalization of research in psychology. This paper is a review of six international large-scale recurring survey programs with open access to data with regard to their contributions to international research collaborations and publications in psychology. These programs are the International Social Survey Programme, the World Values Survey, Children’s Worlds: International Survey of Children’s Well-Being, the Programme for International Student Assessment, the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies, and the Skills Toward Employment and Productivity Measurement Programme. Each program is described in terms of the stages of research (planning and standard setting, instrumentation, data-gathering procedures and quality control, data access and user support) and its development and expansion through the years. The ensuing research outputs and journal publications have international authorship and have analyzed the survey data to address broad, international issues in psychology. These programs exemplify features that encourage and facilitate international collaborations and publications in psychology: an international collaborative network that gathers comprehensive data from large nationally diverse samples over the years, provisions for open, unrestricted access to data, survey documentation, and user support.
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That there are markedly fewer publications using the ISSP data is due to the fact that many more of the publications are sociological, political, or economic, rather than psychological, in analysis and perspective, and we have not included these publications in the count. The ISCWeB, the PIAAC, and the STEP, which started later, generated fewer publications than the WVS and the PISA. The first data collections of the ISCWeB, the PIAAC, and the STEP were in 2011, 2011, and 2012, respectively, whereas, the first data collections of the WVS and the PISA were in 1981 and 2000, respectively. The few publications using the STEP data possibly are indicative of the higher frequency of research outputs in developed countries than in developing countries (of which the STEP data are about).
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Reyes, M.L., Daganzo, M.A.A. & Calleja, M.O. International Large-Scale Recurring Surveys with Open Access to Data: Contributions to International Research Collaborations and Publications in Psychology. Trends in Psychol. 31, 561–581 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43076-023-00273-z
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