About this journal
Aims and scope
Health Psychology Review (HPR) is a landmark publication – the first review journal in the important and growing discipline of health psychology. This new international forum, edited by a highly respected team, provides a leading environment for review, theory, and conceptual development. HPR contributes to the advancement of the discipline of health psychology and strengthens its relationship to the field of psychology as a whole, as well as to other related academic and professional arenas. It is essential reading for those engaged in the study, teaching, and practice of health psychology, behavioral medicine, and associated areas.
HPR is dedicated to theoretical and conceptual work, as well as evaluative, integrative, meta-analytic and systematic reviews and interpretations of substantive issues in the general domain of health psychology. The journal particularly favors theory-based reviews of empirical contributions that afford integrative theoretical formulations of work in a given area of health psychology and reviews of developments that develop connections between areas of research within the general domain of health psychology as well as with other disciplines (ranging from biology to policy-oriented research domains). Papers that consider the cross-cultural and cross-national relevance and appropriateness of theories and key concepts are also welcomed. Articles focusing on methodological issues and problems of design and measurement will be considered if they make a direct and substantial contribution to theory. Brief commentaries addressing progress in specific sub-fields of health psychology, comments that apply to existing theoretical models and approaches, and discussions about previously published articles, can also be considered.
Peer Review Integrity
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.
Disclaimer
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 508K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 6.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 9.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 21.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 4.535 (2023) SNIP
- 3.509 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 15 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 100 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 8% 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
Geert Crombez - Ghent University, Belgium
Falko Sniehotta - University of Heidelberg, Germany
Associate Editors
Denise de Ridder - Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Angela D. Bryan - University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Keegan Knittle - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Laura König - University of Vienna
Gerard Molloy - NUI Galway, Ireland
Cecilia Cheng - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Olga Perski - University of California, San Diego; Tampere University, Finland
Consulting Associate Editor
Paul Norman - University of Sheffield, UK
Research Methods and Data Analysis Editorial Board
Sam Norton - Kings College London, UK
Mike Cheung - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Blair T. Johnson - University of Connecticut, USA
Antonia Lyons - University of Wellington, New Zealand
Gjalt-Jorn Peters - Open University, the Netherlands
Rachel Shaw - Aston University, USA
Editorial Board
John de Wit - Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Thomas Webb - University of Sheffield, UK
Gareth Treharne - University of Otago, New Zealand
Kate Sweeny - University of California, Riverside, USA
James Shepperd - University of Florida, USA
Paschal Sheeran - University of North Carolina, USA
Ralf Schwarzer - Freie Universtität Berlin, Germany
Alex Rothman - University of Minnesota, USA
Ryan Rhodes - University of Victoria, Canada
Andy Prestwich - University of Leeds, UK
Seth M. Noar - University of North Carolina, USA
Gerjo Kok -University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Roeline Kuijer -University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Aleksandra Luszczynska - University of Colorado, USA & Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
Teresa McIntyre -Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Craig Murray - Lancaster University, UK
Gareth Hollands - University College London, UK
Malte Friese - Saarland University, Germany
Ben Gardner -University of Surrey, UK
Kyra Hamilton - Griffith University, Australia
Eamonn Ferguson -University of Nottingham, UK
Jennifer Graham-Engeland -The Pennsylvania State University
Marieke A. Adriaanse - Leiden University, The Netherlands
Past Editors
Joop van der Pligt -University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Suzanne C. Segerstrom - University of Kentucky, USA
Rona Moss-Morris - King's College London, UK
Updated 15-04-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Health Psychology Review is currently indexed in MEDLINE, E-Lib Bremen, National Center for PTSD (PILOTS Database), NAVER, PsycINFO, PsycTESTS, Scopus and the Social Science Citation Index
Open access
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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