International Coauthorship Network Among Published Articles in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

Abstract

The Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (JPI) has a focus on the internationalization of ideas on psychotherapy integration. To better understand the extent to which published psychotherapy integration scholarship is infused by different cultural perspectives indu cive from international collaboration present in this journal, as well as to develop strate gies for increasing such collaboration in the future, social network analysis techniques were applied to issues of JPI from 1991 to 2018. The density of international collabora tions was tracked over time, and instances of international collaboration were identified within the social network. Analyses found that most published articles in JPI were con ducted by authors with U.S. affiliations and that the possible network of international coauthorship is underutilized. The degree of international collaboration did not signifi cantly increase across the period examined. However, the instances of international col laboration on publications in JPI are similar or better than reported in social network analysis of international publications in two comparable journals over the same period. Challenges and strategies for increasing international collaboration are discussed.