A R T I C L E CONTENT AND METHOD TRENDS IN THE JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY BETWEEN 2003 AND 2007 Tanya M. Graham and Tasneem Ismail University of the Witwatersrand Ongoing inquiry into the characteristics of published work and its synergy with community psychology’s core principles is an important reflexive endeavour in the field’s continuing development. This study examined topic and method trends within the Journal of Community Psychology during a 5-year period (January 2003–December 2007). Content analyses were conducted on published abstracts during this period (N 5 242). Most articles were empirical studies (61.2%) and most used a positivist methodology (53.7%). Samples mainly comprised adults and were mixed in terms of gender and ethnic/religious affiliation. The most frequent topics were mental health and mental illness (33.5%), sense of community and social support (24.4%), and dynamics of social exclusion (22.7%). A large proportion of special issues was also noted. These results illustrate contemporary trends in community psychology and suggest that critical and participatory methods as well as socially transformative epistemologies continue to be under-represented within the field.  C 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Since its formal emergence in the 1960s, community psychology has continuously reevaluated its identity and development as a subdiscipline. In many respects, community psychology represents the unique convergence of a diversity of fields, both within and outside of psychology, with a wide range of ideologies and contextual This publication was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are, however, solely the responsibility of the authors. Correspondence to: Tanya M. Graham, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Box 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa. E-mail: Tanya.Graham@wits.ac.za JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 39, No. 2, 121–135 (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). & 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20420