Journal coverage information for publishers

APA PsycInfo covers journals published world-wide. We actively seek new quality journals in electronic format, and we encourage you to submit your journals for evaluation.

Please check our online journal coverage list to see if APA PsycInfo is currently indexing your journal. If you have questions, email APA PsycInfoopens in new window.

APA 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, regularity of publication, and publication ethics. We evaluate journals on an ongoing basis and add or delete journals regularly.

Each journal, before it is accepted for coverage, goes through a rigorous evaluation. In addition to a thorough review of the content, the evaluation committee requires a publication to answer questions about its peer-review process, business practices, and other publishing details. If the evaluation committee has any questions, staff reaches out to editorial board members and/or authors for further information.

Reviews for quality, relevance to behavioral science, and publisher business practices are performed regularly on journals already accepted for coverage. Journals which do not maintain excellence in all of these areas risk removal from our coverage list.

APA PsycInfo welcomes and appreciates feedback on the journals it covers. Should you have a concern about the quality or business practices of a particular title on our coverage list, please email PsycInfoopens in new window.

For more guidance, please see the Journal Article Selection Criteria page.

Requirements

To be accepted for coverage, a journal must:

• Be provided for indexing as an unlocked pdf file
• Be relevant to the behavioral sciences
• 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
• Use either serial pagination or article IDs, each of which must be unique within the issue in which they are published
• Follow standard conventions for scholarly journals:

Have an informative title and descriptive article titles Include unambiguous current affiliations for all authors and contact information for the corresponding author(s) 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 table of contents, abstracts, titles, and keywords in English. All but the table of contents must be in the in the unlocked article pdf files (see Requirements for APA PsycInfo Abstracts)
• Demonstrate diversity of reviewers and authors—no house organs
• Include all or mostly all original articles—no membership-oriented publications or periodicals that primarily consist of republished material.
• 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 not be accepted

Features that support acceptance

• Sponsorship by a psychological association or other scientific or professional society
• Psychologists among editorial board members and authors
• Indexed in other databases
• Digital object identifiers
• Transliterated references

To evaluate your journal, APA PsycInfo needs:

• three consecutive issues or a minimum of 20 articles for journals that publish article-by-article (access to content on website is accepted)
• a completed Editor’s Survey (PDF, 248KB)opens in new window
• Indexing Coverage Agreement (PDF, 611KB)opens in new window*

Please email the journals with the two forms to Journal Content Coordinatoropens in new window, with “New Journal Submission” in the subject line.

If you prefer to mail in your forms please contact us first.

Our Content Development staff will evaluate your journal based on our Journal Coverage Criteria. Once we have all of the materials we need to support submission, we will schedule the evaluation in order of receipt. When we complete the evaluation and make a decision to accept or reject your journal, we will notify you and the editor.