Journal Coverage Information for Publishers
PsycINFO® covers journals published world-wide. We actively seek new quality journals in both print and electronic formats, and we encourage you to submit your journals for evaluation.
Is it Covered Already?
Please check our online journal coverage list to see if PsycINFO is currently indexing your journal. The online list is updated monthly. You can also request a print copy of the list (published annually). Call us at 800-374-2722 or email PsycINFO.
Selection Criteria
PsycINFO evaluates all journals for coverage using the criteria listed below. We seek comprehensive, but not all-inclusive, coverage of the field, and we take into consideration relevancy of content, standards of presentation, and regularity of publication. We evaluate journals on an ongoing basis and add or delete journals regularly.
Review the Requirements and Features that Support Acceptance lists below.
For more guidance, please see the Journal Article Selection Criteria page.
Requirements
To be accepted for coverage, a journal must:
Be relevant to psychology
Be of a quality and scope of interest to an international audience
Be peer reviewed
Peers who are knowledgeable in the subject area and who come from an array of perspectives and settings review submitted manuscripts and advise the editor on their originality, significance and scientific rigor.
Have an ISSN
Follow standard conventions for scholarly journals:
Have an informative title and descriptive article titles
Include full addresses for authors
Include abstracts and key words
Include references that are current, from quality journals, and of an appropriate number for the articles in a standard format.
Contain usable abstracts, titles, and keywords in English (see Requirements for PsycINFO Abstracts)
Demonstrate diversity of reviewers and authors—no house organs
Include all or mostly all original articles
Contain articles that are substantiated with empirical data or other means
Be published on a regular schedule appropriate for the established frequency of the journal
Have articles that are written by professionals in their field. Student journals will be referred to PsycEXTRA for potential coverage.
In addition, e-journals must:
Provide evidence of archiving arrangements, online or otherwise
Include a posting date for articles and revisions
Features that Support Acceptance
Sponsorship by a psychological association or other society
Psychologists among editorial board members and authors
Indexed in other databases
Online access
English table of contents
Transliterated references
Frequency of publication clearly advertised on masthead or web page
For e-journals
E-mail listserv
Presence of version number
Indication of where previous versions can be obtained
Links
How to Submit Your Materials
To evaluate your journal, PsycINFO needs:
three consecutive issues (the three most current, consecutive issues) or a minimum of 20 articles for journals that publish article-by-article
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Please send the journals with the two forms to:
Journal Content Supervisor
PsycINFO
American Psychological Association
PO Box 91600
Washington, DC 20090-1600
USA
If sending UPS or Federal Express, please send the journals and forms to:
Journal Content Supervisor
PsycINFO
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
USA
What Happens Next?
Our Coverage and Acquisitions staff will evaluate your journal based on our Journal Coverage Criteria. Once we have all of the materials we need to support submission, the evaluation process generally requires approximately one month. When we complete this evaluation and make a decision to accept or reject your journal, we will notify you and the editor. If the journal is accepted, you can expect to see citations from it in a future PsycINFO update.
