REFERENCE
GUIDE OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS/PUBLICATIONS Continued
TITLE OF
JOURNAL:International
Journal of Behavioral Development
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Rainer K. Silbereisen,
Professor
IJBD Office
Department of Developmental Psychology
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Am Steiger 3/1, D-07743
GERMANY
Promotes the
discovery, dissemination and application of knowledge about developmental
process at all stages of the lifespan – infancy, childhood,
adolescence, adulthood and old age.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
International-worldwide
audience.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Original empirical
research, theoretical and review papers, other works of scientific
interest that represent a significant advance in the understanding
of any aspect of behavioral development.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
65%
AREA:
Behavioral
Science
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
for the Theory of Social Behaviour
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Charles W.
Smith
Professor of Sociology
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing NY 11367
Original theoretical/methodological
manuscripts of good quality bearing on social behaviour.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Philosophers,
sociologists, and psychologists and others interested in social
behavior.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
(a) Critiques
of concepts and theories; (b) proposals for innovative research
methods; (c) analysis of philosophical assumptions of the social
sciences; (d) presentation of new models of behaviour; and (e) disciplinary
dealing with the relationship of everyday life behaviours with those
situated within an experimental setting.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
(March, June, September, and December)
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
15-20%
AREA:
Behavioral
Science
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
of Nonverbal Behavior
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Ronald E. Riggio,
Editor
Dept. of Psychology
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
(a) Presents
a range of conceptual frameworks that explain, predict, and illuminate
the implications of action; (b) describe social invention and intervention
techniques, consultation activities, emergent innovations, and educational
practices; (c) include diverse methods of data collection and analysis,
such as participant observations, descriptive and inferential statistics,
systematic surveys, self-reflections, laboratory and field experiments,
and archival records; and (d) examine the underlying values, assumptions,
biases, and beliefs associated with the various forms of change.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
The intended
audiences are behavioral scientists, change agents and targets,
interested clients, policymakers, concerned citizens, and all others
who wish to learn about the contributions of applied behavioral
science to our society.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
In evaluating
manuscripts, the journal welcomes—indeed prefers—submissions
that contribute to more than one of the goals.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
(March, June, September, and December)
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
25%
AREA:
Behavioral
Science
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Group
& Organization Management
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
P. Christopher
Earley, Editor
Group & Organization Management
P. O. Box 6087
Irvine, CA 92616-6087
Appropriate
subjects include leadership, management development, group processes,
communication in organizations, consultation, and organization development,
but all articles dealing with group or organizational variables
are considered for publication. Articles should be strongly grounded
in theory, but have practical implications. Special attention will
be given to studies with cross-cultural implications.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Organizational
consultants and practitioners
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Publishes original
data-based research articles, research review reports, research
and evaluation studies, action research reports, and critiques of
research.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
(March, June, September, and December)
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
10-12%
AREA:
CD
TITLE OF JOURNAL: Journal
of Management
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
K. Michele
Kacmar, Editor
Journal of Management
Department of Management
College of Business
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110
Publishes scholarly
articles dealing with any area represented within the domain of
the Academy of Management and/or the Southern Management Association.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Official publication
of the Southern Management Association. Academics in Business and
Psychology.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Manuscripts
dealing with business strategy and policy, human resource management,
organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods
are suitable for publication.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
6 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
10%
AREA:
CD
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
of Management Education
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Diana Bilimoria,
Editor
Journal of Management Education
Case Westren Reserve University
Weatherhead School of Management
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7235
Provides a
forum for creative publication within the fields of management and
organization. Disciplines regularly covered include: organization
and management theory, research methods, organization development
and change, gender and diversity in organizations, human resources.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Sponsored by
the Western Academy of Management. Scholars and professionals from
a wide variety of areas within the management and organization field.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
JMI features
six sections: meet the person, reviews, reflections on experience,
nontraditional research, essays, and dialog.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
(March, June, September, and December)
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
25%
AREA:
CD
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
of Organizational Behavior
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Yitzhak Fried,
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Department of Management and Organization Sciences
Wayne State University
School of Business Administration
Detroit, MI 48202
Aims to report
and review the growing research in the industrial/ organizational
psychology and organizational behavior fields, including topics
such as motivation, work performance, equal opportunities at work,
occupational stress, quality of work life, job satisfaction, personnel
selection, training, organizational change.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Teachers; practitioners,
educators, and researchers in occupational psychology organizations;
behavior management; human resources managers with interests in
psycho/social/legal management aspects of working life.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Research and
theory.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
8 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
AREA:
CD
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
of the Community Development Society
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
A.E. Luloff,
Editor
Journal of the Community Development Society
Penn State
111 Armsby Building
University Park, PA 16802
Devoted to
improving knowledge and practice in the field of purposive community
change. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate information
on theory, research, and practice.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Official Journal
of the Community Development Society. Community development practitioners;
faculty with research, teaching, and extension assignments in agricultural
and extension education, rural sociology, agricultural and resource
economics, applied community development; agency personnel.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Two major sections:
practice; research; and a forum section which focuses on discussion,
debate, and reactions to previously published materials. Research;
evaluative theory, techniques, and methods; community problems;
and papers dealing with the profession itself.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
2 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
1/97 –
7/99: 22% accepted, 21% rejected; 54% under first or second review;
and 3% withdrawn.
AREA:
CD
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Cognition
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Jacques Mehler
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
54, Boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris
FRANCE
Articles of
reasonable length and of developmental interest on topics such as
perception, memory, language, concepts, thinking, problem solving,
metacognition, and social cognition.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Reports of
empirical research, methodological advances, theoretical essays,
or critical reviews.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
33%
AREA:
Cognition
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Intelligence
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Douglas K.
Detterman
Department of Psychology
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106-7123
E-MAIL ADDRESS
AND/OR WEB SITE:
None
FOCUS OF
THE JOURNAL:
The Journal
Intelligence publishes papers reporting works which make a substantial
contribution to an understanding of the nature and function of intelligence.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Theoretical
and review articles will be considered, if appropriate, but preference
is given to original research. In general, studies concerned with
application will not be considered appropriate unless the work also
makes a contribution to basic knowledge.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
AREA:
Cognition
TITLE OF JOURNAL: Memory
& Cognition
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Morton Ann
Gernsbacher, Editor
1202 W. Johnson St.
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706-1611
Covers human
memory and learning, conceptual processes, psycholinguistics, problem
solving, thinking, decision making, and skilled performance, including
relevant work in the areas of computer simulation, information processing,
mathematical psychology, developmental psychology, and experimental
social psychology.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
A Journal of
the Psychonomic Society.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Papers devoted
primarily to the development of the theory and papers representing
scholarly reviews of the existing literature.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
Formerly 6
times a year. Starting in 2000, 8 issues per year.
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
15%
AREA:
Cognition
TITLE OF JOURNAL: Social Cognition:
A Journal of Social, Personality, and Developmental Psychology
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Donal E Carlston
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
Psychology Sciences Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1364
E-MAIL ADDRESS
AND/OR WEB SITE:
None
FOCUS OF
THE JOURNAL:
The journal
emphasizes three broad concerns: the processes underlying the perception,
memory, and judgment of social stimuli; the effects of social, cultural,
and affective factors on the processing of information; and the
behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
A Journal of
Social, Personality, and Developmental Psychology
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Publishes reports
of empirical research, and critical reviews on the role of cognitive
processes in the study of social behavior, personality, and social
development.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
AREA:
Cognition
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Journal
of Applied Communications
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Christine Penko
Journal of Applied Communications
c/o Managing Editor
University of Florida
P.O. Box 110810
Gainesville, FL 32611-0810
High quality,
scholarly research capturing the full range of approaches to the
study of creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultural,
developmental, educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic,
psychometric, and social.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Mostly researchers,
some clinicians, organizational specialists and facilitators, and
university educators.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Integrative
literature reviews and theoretical pieces that appreciate empirical
work are extremely welcome. Commentaries, comments, and evaluative
book reviews from readers.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
20%
AREA:
Creativity
TITLE OF JOURNAL:The
Journal of Creative Behavior
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Thomas B. Ward
Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235
Basic and applied
research on the nature of the creative process.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Professionals
and lay persons interested in creativity.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Empirical reports
with theoretical implications.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
50%
AREA:
Creativity
TITLE OF
JOURNAL:Journal
of Higher Education, Outreach, and Engagement
EDITOR'S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Melvin B. Hill
Jr.
Editor, JHEOE
Institute of Higerh education
116 Meigs Hall
Athens, GA 30602-6772
Phone: (706) 583-0048, Fax: (706) 583-0281
E-MAIL ADDRESS
AND/OR WEB SITE:
Web Site: http://www.uga.edu/ihe/PubsJHEOE.html
Email: ajarvis@uga.edu
FOCUS OF
THE JOURNAL:
The Institute
of Higher Education and the Office of the Vice President for Public
announces the publication of the Journal of Higher Education, Outreach,
and Engagement, formerly the Journal of Public Service and Outreach.
JHEOE seeks to serve as a forum to promote the continuing dialogue
about the service and outreach mission of the University and its
relationship to the teaching and research missions and to the needs
of the sponsoring society.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Scholars, practitioners,
and professionals
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Manuscripts
submitted to JHEOE must be original and unpublished work of the
author(s) and must not be under consideration by other publications.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
3 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
AREA:
Diversity
TITLE OF JOURNAL:Multicultural
Perspectives
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Philip C. Chinn,
Co-Editor
Division of Special Education
Charter School of Education
California State University
19600 Terraza Terrace
Walnut, CA 91789
The primary
goals of the journal are to assist evaluators and planners to better
the practice of their professions, to develop their skills, and
to improve their knowledge base.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
An international
journal. Planners, policy analysts, program developers, management
consultants, and social scientists.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
Reports of
individual evaluation or planning efforts and more general articles
on issues relevant to the conduct of evaluation and planning.
FREQUENCY
OF PUBLICATION:
4 times a year
ACCEPTANCE
RATE:
55%
AREA:
Evaluation
TITLE OF JOURNAL: The
American Journal of Evaluation
EDITOR’S
NAME OR CONTACT PERSON:
Melvin M. Mark,
Editor
N254 Burrowes
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
The primary
goals of the journal are to assist evaluators to better the practice
of their profession, to hone their skills, and to broaden their
knowledge base.
TARGETED
AUDIENCE:
Create dialogue
among the membership of the American Evaluation Association.
TYPES OF
WORK PUBLISHED:
It includes
topics of current interest, information about upcoming conferences,
book reviews
and more.
