Behavioral Sleep Medicine addresses behavioral dimensions of the fundamental scientific understanding of normal/healthy and abnormal/unhealthy sleep and wake mechanisms and regulation, and utilizes established behavioral principles to assess, treat, and prevent sleep disorders, sleep-related symptoms, and associated behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological and mental health problems in children and adults. Research published in BSM across a variety of disciplines and from a broad set of perspectives and the dissemination of that evidence-based science, contribute to the body of knowledge in these areas, and is also applicable to public health and safety, policy making, and sleep education with the overall goal of improving quality of life through sleep.
Standards for interventions acceptable to this journal are guided by established principles of behavior change. Intending to serve as the intellectual home for the application of behavioral/cognitive science to the study of normal and disordered sleep, the journal paints a broad stroke across the behavioral sleep medicine landscape. Its content includes scholarly investigation of such areas as normal sleep experience, cross-cultural sleep practices, sleep health education, relationship of daytime functioning to sleep, and dreams in a wide variety of adult and pediatric populations across the lifespan. The journal also focuses on research related to insomnia and on primary behavioral/cognitive aspects of sleep disorders such as sleep disordered breathing, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, and narcolepsy and central hypersomnias; these behavioral/cognitive aspects include patient and family perspectives, care-seeking behaviors, development, application and efficacy of assessment tools and behavioral interventions, and treatment adherence to behavioral, medical and pharmacologic therapies. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as is diversity in geographic locations, populations studied, and research methodologies, including both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as implementation science.
Reports acceptable to this journal follow standards for measurement and data analysis, and conventions for scientific writing and clinical case reports (e.g., CARE guidelines-see below for citation*), as well as ethical considerations in the use humans and animals as research subjects and the reporting of patient data (per APA, AMA, other).
Target Audience: Psychologists, physicians, nurses, and other mental health and health-care researchers and clinicians and sleep health advocates interested in normal and disordered sleep from a behavioral/cognitive science, mind-body and biopsychosocial perspective.
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Journal metrics
Usage
105K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
2.9 (2023) 5 year IF
7.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.188 (2023) SNIP
1.025 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
30 days avg. from submission to first
decision
85 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
11% acceptance rate
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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
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nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
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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.
Ariel Neikrug University of California, Irvine, USA
Gabriel Pires Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Associate Editors
Pam Alfanso-Miller - North Umbria University, UK J. Todd Arnedt - University of Michigan, USA Fiona Baker - SRI International, USA Wai Sze Chan - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Megan Crawford - University of Strathclyde, UK Kelly Glazer Baron - Northwestern University, USA Janet Cheung -The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Valerie Crabtree - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA Christopher Drake - Henry Ford Health System, USA Barbara Galland - University of Otago, New Zealand Tyish Hall-Brown - Children's National Hospital, USA Brant Hasler - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA Sarah Honaker - Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Shirley Xin Li - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chien Ming Yang- National Chengchi University, Taiwan Charles M. Morin - Universite Laval, Canada Gabriel Pires - Institutio do Sono, Brazil Katherine M. Sharkey - Brown University, USA Karen Spruyt - Université de Paris, NeuroDiderot, INSERM, Paris, France Carl J. Stepnowsky - University of California, USA Natasha Williams- NYU Langone, USA Yun Kowk Wing- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Special Issue Editor
Thomas Roth - Henry Ford Hospital, USA
Editor Emeritus
Judith A. Owens - Harvard Medical School, USA
Kenneth Lichstein - University of Alabama, USA
Editorial Intern
Melanie Stearns - University of South Florida, USA
Editorial Board
Candice Alfano - University of Houston, USA Hrayr Attarian - Northwestern University, USA Valeria Bacaro - University of Bologna, Italy Dean Beebe - University of Cincinnati, USA Bei Bei - Monash University, Australia Lynda Bélanger - Université Laval, Canada Ruth Benca - Wake Forest School of Medicine USA Adam Bramoweth - VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, USA Serge Brand - University of Basel, Switzerland Joseph Buckhalt - Auburn University, USA Ashura Buckley - National Institute of Mental Health, USA James Catesby Ware - Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA Penny Corkum - Dalhousie University, Canada Kimberly Cote - Brock University, Canada Leisha Cuddihy - University of Rochester, USA Ashley Curtis - University of South Florida, USA Natalie Dautovich - Virginia Commonwealth University Eduard deBruin - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Catherine S. Fichten - Dawson College, Canada Michael Grandner - University of Arizona, USA Heather Gunn - University of Alabama, USA Sarah Morsbach Honaker - Indiana University, USA Anna Ivanenko - Indiana University Jacqueline Kloss - University of Pennsylvania, USA Erin Koffel - Minneapolis VA, USA Monique LeBourgeois - University of Colorado Boulder, USA Danny Lewin - Children’s National Medical Center, USA Ellyn Matthews - University of Arkansas, USA Jodi A. Mindell - St. Joseph’s University, USA Vincenzo Natale -University of Bologna, Italy Sara Nowakowski -University of Texas, USA Jason Ong - Northwestern University, USA Tonya M. Palermo - University of Washington, USA Michael L. Perlis - The University of Pennsylvania, USA David Plante - University of Wisconsin, USA Nancy Redeker - Yale University, USA Brandy Roane - University of North Texas, USA Josée Savard - Université Laval, Canada Amy Sawyer - University of Pennsylvania Nikia Scott - Emory University School of Medicine, USA Michelle Short - Flinders University, Australia Stacey Simon - University of Colorado, USA Kai Spiegelhalder - University of Freiburg, Germany James C. Spilsbury - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA Karen Spruyt - Maastricht University, The Netherlands S. Justin Thomas - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA William Vaughn McCall - Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, USA Norah Vincent - University of Manitoba, Canada Guanghai Wang - Shanghai Children's Medical Center, China Emerson Wickwire - University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA James Wyatt - Rush University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Behavioral Sleep Medicine is abstracted/indexed in: ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts; Cabell’ Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed; New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep (NAPS); PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts; and Science Citation Index.
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