About this journal
Aims and scope
Psychology & Health promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. The contents include work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention; the individual-health care system interface particularly communication and psychologically-based interventions. The journal publishes original research, and accepts not only papers describing rigorous empirical work, including meta-analyses, but also those outlining new psychological approaches and interventions in health-related fields.
Notice to Authors Wishing to Submit to Psychology & Health
Psychology & Health receives many more manuscripts than we can publish, and so we must select for review those with the highest probability of eventual acceptance. This makes it necessary for us to reject papers that do not receive a high priority score or that are outside of the journal's scope, despite their potential strengths. The following guidelines should be considered prior to submitting a manuscript to Psychology & Health .
The following types of manuscripts will be given the highest priority and most likely be sent out for review:- Randomised controlled trials and experimental studies that are pre-registered and test specific hypotheses or highlight specific mechanisms relating physical health and illness
- Prospective or longitudinal studies, ecological momentary assessment studies, registered reports, and registered systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Evaluation studies of effective public health practice
- Position and guideline papers related to health psychology
- Studies providing credible evidence that can inform practice (for example, this will entail employing a sample with an adequate size and composition; appropriate testing of plausible hypotheses in quantitative studies; thorough or in-depth analysis in qualitative studies)
- Studies that are likely to make a significant novel contribution to theory or methods (i.e., empirical study is based on sophisticated theorising or methodology)
- Studies that demonstrate their importance to health psychology
The following types of manuscripts will be given the lowest priority and most likely not be sent out for review:
- Cross-sectional, descriptive studies without innovative features
- Pilot studies, feasibility studies, and protocol studies
- Studies with sample size too small to detect effects and/or sample unrepresentative or biased
- Studies with unreliable or unvalidated measures
- Studies with inappropriate statistical analyses and analysis not well described and/or unconvincing
- Studies having no control or reference group or inadequate control group
- Studies that do not contain sufficient psychological theory and content
- Studies that are not principally concerned with physical health
- The writing style is unclear and would require extensive revision before it would be suitable for publication.
All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 488K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.131 (2023) SNIP
- 1.092 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 101 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 13% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITORS
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia University of Victoria, Victoria, CanadaASSOCIATE EDITORS
Mike Antoni - University of Miami, USA
Christopher Armitage - University of Manchester, UK
Cecilia Cheng - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rebecca Ferrer - National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, USA
Crystal Park - University of Connecticut, USA
Denise de Ridder - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sarah Riley - Massey University, New Zealand
Gareth Treharne - University of Otago, New Zealand
Linda Trinh - University of Toronto, Canada
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Marieke Adriaanse - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Laura Ashley - Leeds Beckett University, UK
Lisa Aspinwall - University of Utah, USA
Lauren Connell Bohen – Brown University, USA
Peter Branney – University of Bradford, UK
Elizabeth Broadbent- University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lisa Buckley – The University of Queensland, Australia
Octavia Calder-Dawe - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Linda Cameron - University of California, USA
Maria Del Rio Carral - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Derwin Chan– The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Richard Cooke – University of Liverpool, UK
Neil Coulson - University of Nottingham, UK
Shona Crabb - University of Adelaide, Australia
Nanne de Vries – Maastricht University, Netherlands
Sarah Depaoli – The University of California, USA
Genevieve Dunton – University of Southern California, USA
Tracy Epton – University of Manchester, UK
Catherine Evers - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Eamonn Ferguson - University of Nottingham, UK
Uwe Flick – Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Frederick Gibbons – University of Connecticut, USA
Ally Gibson – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Marleen Gillebaart – Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Brendan Gough - Leeds Beckett University, UK
Martin Hagger - University of California, USA
Thomas Hannan – Griffith University, Australia
David Hevey - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Scott Hofer– University of Victoria, Canada
Jennifer Howell – University of California, USA
Brian Hughes - National University of Ireland, Ireland
Margaret Husted - University of Winchester, UK
Fiona Hutton - Victoria University, New Zealand
Andrew Jones – University of Liverpool, UK
Evangelos Karademas - University of Crete, Greece
Jacob Keech - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Feng Kong- Shaanxi Normal University, China.
Emily Kothe – Deakin University, Australia
Andrea LaMarre – Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Canada
Heng Li - Southwest University, China
Todd Lucas - Michigan State University, USA
Aleksandra Luszczynska - University of Colorado, USA
Elizabeth Lyons – The University of Texas, USA
Jaclyn Maher – University of North Carolina, USA
Renee E. Magnan – Washington State University, USA
Emma Maynard – University of Portsmouth, UK
Brian McGuire - National University of Ireland, UK
Ilona McNeill - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Gerry Molloy – University of Stirling, UK
Paul Norman - University of Sheffield, UK
Sheina Orbell – University of Essex, UK
Alison Phillips – Iowa State University, USA
Amanda Rebar – Central Queensland University, Australia
Sarah Riley - Massey University, New Zeland
Martine Robson - Aberystwyth University, Wales
Wendy Rodgers – University of Alberta, Canada
Valentina Lucia La Rosa - University of Catania, Italy
Alex Rothman– University of Minnesota, USA
Urte Scholz – University of Zurich, Germany
Ralf Schwarzer - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Benjamin Schuz – University of Bremen, Germany
Sarah Seymour-Smith – Nottingham Trent University, UK
Rachel Shaw - Aston University, UK
Paschal Sheeran - University of Sheffield, UK
Shoshana Shiloh - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Camille Short – University of Adelaide, Australia
Michael Smith - Northumbria University, UK
Falko Sniehotta – University of Newcastle, UK
Christine Stephens - Massey University, New Zealand
Niamh Stephenson - University of New South Wales, Australia
Kelley Strohacker – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Irina Todorova - Northeastern University in Boston, USA
Mark Wetherell - Northumbria University, UK
Chun-Qing Zhang – Sun Yat-sen University, China
Shimin (Jasmine) ZHU – Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong
Abstracting and indexing
Psychology and Health is abstracted in: CINAHL Info Systems; Current Contents-Social and Behavioural Sciences; Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); Health Economic Evaluations Database (OHE-HEED); Medline; PsycINFO; Research Alert; Scopus; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts.
Open access
Psychology & Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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