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Welcome to Journals!

These are the most important journals in our area, organized from broadest to narrowest scope. We highly recommend you make a habit of reading these. See Mailing Lists for a convenient way to keep tabs on them; and note that you can use RefWorks to download abstracts and citations of the entire table of contents.

In addition, you will want to mull this list over when deciding where to submit your work. Broad scope means high readership & impact in the field (as measured in citations). That's what the numbers alongside the journals, their "Impact Factor", are intended to capture. (You can find out more about IF at Web of Knowledge: just choose "Journal Citation Reports" from the Products & Features pulldown menu.)

That said, some studies you might conduct are important exactly because they discriminate a very narrow question of great importance to your sub-discipline (and therefore are most appropriate to submit to a specialty journal, despite the lower IF). Each journal also has its own niche or focus: the blurbs here attempt to give a brief description, but to find out more, read recent tables of contents, abstracts & articles to get a sense of the direction the editors want to send the journal. Also, see these tips for how to be published!

Science
Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Science

Science (AAAS, weekly) 30.927

Nature (weekly) 29.273

Both of these highly prestigious journals date back to the 1800s, and currently publish only about 8-9% of submissions. Judy and Angel have both published here recently.

Psychology

Annual Review of Psychology (Annual Reviews) 9.784

Psychological Bulletin (APA, bimonthly) 9.746

Trends in Cognitive Science (Trends, monthly) 9.155

Psychological Review (APA, quarterly) 7.986

Psychological Science (APS, monthly) 4.502

Teaching of Psychology (STP, quarterly) 0.315

Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology (APA, bimonthly) 3.421

Child Development (SRCD, bimonthly) 3.043

Developmental Science (Blackwell, bimonthly) 2.436

All of these are the standards in devo psych. Some reviewers in Devo Psych really prefer papers that test multiple age groups. Child Devo and Devo Psych typically involve multi-experiment papers. Devo Science is a fairly new journal, but one that often has excellent both long and short papers. The focus in Devo Science has recently been in cognitive development, so it is a journal worth considering.

Child Development Perspectives (SRCD, ?)

A brand-new journal from SRCD (launched 2007). It's intended to be along the style of Trends in Cognitive Science (see explanation, from the SRCD newsletter)