Current Directions in Psychological Science
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| Discipline | Psychology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Randall W. Engle |
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| History | 1992-present |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 3.490 (2010) | |
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| ISO 4 | Curr. Dir. Psychol. |
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| ISSN | 0963-7214 (print) 1467-8721 (web) |
| LCCN | 93660034 |
| OCLC no. | 25768799 |
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Current Directions in Psychological Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) that is published by SAGE Publications.
Scope
Current Directions in Psychological Science publishes concise reviews by leading experts spanning all of scientific psychology and its applications. The reviews published in this journal cover diverse topics such as language, memory and cognition, development, the neural basis of behavior and emotions, various aspects of psychopathology, and theory of mind. These articles allow readers to stay apprised of important developments across subfields beyond their areas of expertise and bodies of research they might not otherwise be aware of. The articles in Current Directions are also written to be accessible to non-experts, making them suitable for use in the classroom as teaching supplements. The current editor of the journal is Randall Engle at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to a large number of institutional subscribers worldwide, the 23,500 members of the Association for Psychological Science receive the journal as part of their membership.
Abstracting and indexing
Current Directions in Psychological Science is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 3.490, ranking it 11 out of 120 journals in the category ‘Psychology, Multidisciplinary’.[1]
Past Editors
Harry T. Reis, University of Rochester; Alan E. Kazdin, Yale University; Milton D. Hakel, University of Memphis; Emanuel Donchin, University of South Florida; and Sandra Scarr, University of Virginia, and Charles R. Gallistel, Rutgers University
References
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Multidisciplinary". 2010 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2011.
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