The present study investigated the scientific production of PsicoUSF journal between the years 2007 to 2011. 12 volumes were used, in which 155 articles were analyzed based in the following criteria: number of articles published per issue of the journal, region that prevailed at the polls, nature of authorship, gender of authors, references used in the grounds of published articles, distribution by subject of study and type of work as well as by type of material used in field research and the references used. The data showed the maintenance of the mean number of articles published per issue, highlighting, however, for the addition of a third number of publications per year. It was observed that the research report was the most used and the Southeast, the most published during this period. There was also predominance of multiple authorship and female, and about the issues, most of the work turned to the Fundamentals and measures in psychology. As for the references used, most studies relied primarily on journal articles.
Science production; Psychology; Journals; Quality of publications
