About this journal
Aims and scope
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.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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
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
Editor
Christina McCrae
University of South Florida, USA
Deputy Editors
Ariel Neikrug
University of California, Irvine, USA
Gabriel Pires
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Associate Editors
Pam Alfanso-Miller - North Umbria University, UKJ. 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
Kenneth Lichstein - University of Alabama, USA
Editorial Intern
Melanie Stearns - University of South Florida, USA
Editorial Board
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.
Open access
Behavioral Sleep Medicine 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)
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