Call for papers: Contemporary reviews

• Letter of intent deadline: Running
• Manuscript submission deadline: Running

• Ryan Van Patten, PhD, associate editor
• Steven Paul Woods, PsyD, editor-in-chief

Neuropsychology invites the submission of systematic reviews that provide a time-limited (e.g., 3–5 years) update on a specific literature of relevance to the journal’s aims and scope.

Academics and clinicians commonly struggle to keep pace with rapidly expanding literatures that are critical to evidence-based science and practice (Hanson et al., 2024). This open call for contemporary reviews aims to provide a potentially valuable resource for the readership of Neuropsychology. Specifically, contemporary reviews will synthesize these rapidly emerging literatures in a rigorous but accessible manner that will be useful to researchers, clinicians, and teachers.

Neuropsychology’s contemporary reviews will follow rigorous methodological guidelines (see below). For example, these reviews will be required to have a clear rationale, transparent and comprehensive literature searches, detailed inclusion/exclusion criteria, duplicate screening and data coding, and evaluation of risk of bias. Authors will be encouraged to preregister their review, to consider including grey literature, and to provide a justification for meta-analysis versus narrative synthesis of results.

Methodological guidelines

PRISMA Guidelinesopens in new window
Cochrane Handbookopens in new window
AMSTAR-2 Checklistopens in new window

Muka, T., Glisic, M., Milic, J., Verhoog, S., Bohlius, J., Bramer, W., ... & Franco, O. H. (2020). A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research. European Journal of Epidemiology, 35(1), 49-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00576-5opens in new window

Page, M. J., Moher, D., Bossuyt, P. M., Boutron, I., Hoffmann, T. C., Mulrow, C. D., ... & McKenzie, J. E. (2021). PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ, 372. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n160opens in new window

Shea, B. J., Reeves, B. C., Wells, G., Thuku, M., Hamel, C., Moran, J., ... & Henry, D. A. (2017). AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both. BMJ, 358. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j4008opens in new window

• A brief summary of the topic and methodology of proposed contemporary review should be submitted to Van Patten and Woods as a letter of intent.
• Approval to submit a contemporary review does not guarantee acceptance. All submitted manuscripts will undergo Neuropsychology’s typical high standard peer review process.
• All contemporary reviews should be prepared and formatted in accordance with Neuropsychology’s Instructions for Authors.
• Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via Neuropsychology’s Editorial Manager and include a notation in the correspondence that the submission is a contemporary review. Choose the Article Type “Contemporary Review” in the Editorial Manager system when submitting your manuscript.