Wow! The decrease in Piaget's citations in a 10 year period strikes my eye! From over 30% in 1992 to 10% in 2002! Any explanation?
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From: Eugene Matusov
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:34 AM
Subject: Science alert: When Vygotsky beat Piaget
Dear xmca-ers-
Mark Smith and I were playing (for a different reason) with PSYCINFO studying how often different psychological notions have been cited in PSYCNFO abstracts across last 40 years. At 1am, we got second wind and decided to check who has been historically most popular Piaget or Vygotsky in PSYCINFO. Mark was arguing that Vygotsky beat Piaget in 1990s and 2000s. I liked his theory but was not sure..
As the graph below shows, Mark was right only in 1999. 1999 was a good year for Vygotsky for some reason.. Any ideas why? Maybe something to do with stars.. What was his zodiac year?
Mark refused to present the graph on early years because he got upset about increasing frequency for Piaget and decreasing frequency for Vygotsky. I think he just started a new article on Vygotsky to beef up the umbers for 2003.. Good work, Mark! We all should follow his example! Long Live Lev! (Piagetians are always lurking behind the scenes.)
What do you think?
Eugene
PS I'm afraid to present a graph about Freud who continues to blow both Piaget and Vygotsky multiplied by 5 times. When will they all retire?!
PSS Notice how both Piaget and Vygotsky got popular in 1996 during their centennial represented by the pikes.
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