TY - JOUR KW - Social study of Psychology KW - Revista Española de Cienciometría KW - Bibliometry KW - Anxiety and Stress AU - C. Civera AU - V. Fernández-López AU - F. Tortosa AB - Scientific journals define the research front of any academic discipline. A characteristic interaction exists between the level of institutional development and social acceptance, and the number and diversity of journals. This is specially clear in the case of Spanish Psychology. The aim of the present paper is to provide an overall overview about the state-of-the-art on the research of anxiety and stress by reviewing the contents of the articles published in the journal Ansiedad y Estrés . This multidisciplinar and theoretically open-minded publication pretends to spread out papers on anxiety and stress and related issues (v.g. emotions, personality, and health issues). As the Official Journal of the a scientific society, pretends to delimitate or define a field of research and application. In this sense, it provides, by means of bibliometrical techniques, a quite overview of the current, past and future issues in this field that mostly concern to authors and wide research groups, as well as, includes the most current influencing authors, papers, institutions, journals and books in the field. Our results allow to built an overall idea about general trends in the journal Ansiedad y Estrés , and this approach us to our general aim on the knowledge of the state-of-the-art of the research in these outstanding fields. IS - 1 M3 - Journal article N2 - Scientific journals define the research front of any academic discipline. A characteristic interaction exists between the level of institutional development and social acceptance, and the number and diversity of journals. This is specially clear in the case of Spanish Psychology. The aim of the present paper is to provide an overall overview about the state-of-the-art on the research of anxiety and stress by reviewing the contents of the articles published in the journal Ansiedad y Estrés . This multidisciplinar and theoretically open-minded publication pretends to spread out papers on anxiety and stress and related issues (v.g. emotions, personality, and health issues). As the Official Journal of the a scientific society, pretends to delimitate or define a field of research and application. In this sense, it provides, by means of bibliometrical techniques, a quite overview of the current, past and future issues in this field that mostly concern to authors and wide research groups, as well as, includes the most current influencing authors, papers, institutions, journals and books in the field. Our results allow to built an overall idea about general trends in the journal Ansiedad y Estrés , and this approach us to our general aim on the knowledge of the state-of-the-art of the research in these outstanding fields. PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés PY - 2004 SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937 SP - 1 EP - 27 T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés TI - An empirical approach to the journal "Ansiedady Estrés" (Anxiety and Stress) in its 10 th anniversary VL - 10 ER -