About this journal
Aims and scope
Psychotherapy Research seeks to enhance the development, scientific quality, and social relevance of psychotherapy research and to foster the use of research findings in practice, education, and policy formulation. Psychotherapy Research is the official journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. A pan-discipline, pan-theoretical publication, its scope covers all aspects of psychotherapy research from process to outcomes; service evaluation and training. Access to all the online content of the journal from 1991 is available free to all members of SPR.
The journal publishes original research on all aspects of psychotherapy, including its outcomes, its processes, education of practitioners, and delivery of services. It publishes:
- original empirical research papers
- theoretical and methodological research papers
- review articles
The journal is committed to promoting international communication by addressing an international, interdisciplinary audience, and welcomes submissions dealing with:
- diverse theoretical orientations (e.g., psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, experiential, systems approaches)
- treatment modalities (e.g., individual, group, couples, family)
- research paradigms (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, clinical trials, process studies, outcome prediction, systematic case studies, measure development, meta-analyses).
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Peer Review Integrity
Taylor & Francis and the Society for Psychotherapy Research are committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. 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. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page.
Submission is online via Routledge's Submission Portal. Visit the Journal Homepage and click the Submit an article button.
Disclaimer
The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and our publisher Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in our publications. However, SPR and our publisher Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by SPR and our publisher Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. SPR and our publisher Taylor & Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions
Journal metrics
Usage
- 448K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.853 (2023) SNIP
- 1.477 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 12 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 45 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 18 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 37% 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-in-Chief:
Catherine F. Eubanks - Managing Editor, Adelphi University, United States
Christoph Flückiger - University of Kassel, Germany
Associate Editors:
Jaime Delgadillo - University of Sheffield, UK
Fredrik Falkenström - Linnaeus University, Sweden
Juan Martín Gómez Penedo - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andrew A. McAleavey - Weill Cornell Medical College, United States
Hanne Oddli - University of Oslo, Norway
Julian Rubel - University of Osnabruck, Germany
Editorial Assistant:
Dustin Phan - Adelphi University, United States
Advisory Editors:
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn - Yeshiva University, United States
Timothy Anderson - Ohio University, United States
Robbie Babins-Wagner - University of Calgary, USA
Anna Babl - Adelphi University, USA
Jürgen Barth - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Vera Bekes - Yeshiva University, USA
Thomas Berger - University of Bern, Switzerland
Jan Böhnke - University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Tali Boritz - University of Toronto, Canada
James Boswell - University at Albany, United States
Eva-Lotta Brakemeier - University of Greifswald, Germany
Gary M. Burlingame - Brigham Young University, United States
Isabel Caro Gabalda - University of Valencia, Spain
Louis G. Castonguay - Penn State University, United States
Harold Chui - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Michael Constantino - University of Massachusetts, United States
Mick Cooper - Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
Alice Coyne - Case Western Reserve University, United States
Kenneth Critchfield - James Madison University, United States
Paul Crits-Christoph - University of Pennsylvania, United States
Pim Cuijpers - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AC Del Re - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Melissa De Smet - Tilburg University, Netherlands
Gary M. Diamond - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Giancarlo Dimaggio - Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy - Rome, Italy
Ellen Driessen - Radboud University, The Netherlands
Tracy D. Eells - University of Louisville, United States
Johannes Ehrenthal - University of Cologne, Germany
Iony D. Ezawa - University of Southern California, United States
Barry A. Farber - Columbia University, United States
Javier Fernández-Álvarez - Fundación Aiglé, Argentina
Hadar Fisher - University of Haifa, Israel
Myrna Friedlander - The University at Albany - Suny, United States
Charles J. Gelso - University of Maryland, United States
Simon Goldberg - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Marvin R. Goldfried - Stony Brook University, United States
Miguel Gonçalves - University of Minho, Portugal
Bernard S. Gorman - Adelphi University, United States
Brin Grenyer - University of Wollongong, Australia
Jeremy Halstead - Tenter Hill Cottage, United Kingdom
Sibel Halfon - Istambul Bilgi University, Turkey
Nathan Hansen - Yale University, United States
Armin Hartmann - University of Freiburg, Germany
Robert L. Hatcher - The City University of New York, United States
Laurie Heatherington - Williams College, United States
Erkki Heinonen - National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Stefan Hofmann - University of Marburg, Germany
Rolf Holmqvist - Linköping University, Sweden
Adam O. Horvath - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jürgen Hoyer - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Bill Hoyt - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Marcus Huibers - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jonathan Huppert - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Shigeru Iwakabe - Ochanomizu University, Japan
Anthony S. Joyce - University of Alberta, Canada
Nikolaos Kazantzis - Melbourne, Australia
Dennis M. Kivlighan - University of Maryland, United States
Yogev Kivity - Bar-Ulan University, Israel
Maria Kleinstäuber - Utah State University - Logan, USA
Lynne Knobloch-Fedders - Marquette University, United States
Gregory Kolden - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Ueli Kramer - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Mariane Krause - Pontifical Catholic University - Santiago de Chile, Chile
Tobias Krieger - University of Bern, Switzerland
Elisabeth Adams Kvam - University of Oslo, Norway
Peter Lilliengren - Ersta Skondal Hogskola, Sweden
Lauren Lipner - Long Island University-Post Campus, United States
Allison Lockard - Bucknell University, United States
Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces - Indiana University, United States
Patrick Luyten - University of Leuven, Belgium
Kevin Scott McCarthy - Chestnut Hill College, United States
Claudio Martinez - Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Stan Messer - Rutgers University, United States
Nick Midgley - University College London, United Kingdom
Michelle G. Newman - Penn State University, United States
Andrew Page - University of Western Australia, Australia
Katja Petrowski - Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Ioana Podina - University of Bucharest, Romania
Thomas Probst - University of Salzburg, Austria
Marit Rabu - University og Oslo, Norway
Tomáš Rihácek - Masaryk University, Czech Repulic
Jenny Rosendahl - University of Jena, Germany
Felicitas Rost - Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Andrés Roussos - Argentine University of Enterprise - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Julian Rubel - Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
Thomas Schroder - University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jan Schürmann-Vengels - Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Nili Solomonov - Weill Cornell Medical College, United States
Tim Strauman - Duke University, United States
Dan Strunk - Ohio State University, United States
Joshua Swift - Idaho State University, United States
Giorgio A. Tasca - Ottawa Hospital, Canada
Svenja Taubner - University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ladislav Timulak - Trinity College, Ireland
Orya Tishby - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Joel Town - Dalhousie University, Canada
Wolfgang Tschacher - University of Bern, Switzerland
Dana Tzur Bitan - Ariel University, Israel
Andreea Visla - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jana Volkert - Medical School Berlin, Germany
Michael A. Westerman - New York University, United States
Henny Westra - York University, Canada
Ulrike Willutzki - University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Hadas Wiseman - University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Wolf - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hui Xu - Loyola University Chicago, United States
Soo Yeong Youn - Harvard Medical School, USA
Sigal Zilcha-Mano - Adelphi University, United States
Richard Zinbarg - Northwestern University, United States
Former Editors:
2016-2021 Jeffrey A. Hayes - Pennsylvania State University, USA
2013-2018 Wolfgang Lutz - University of Trier, Germany
2010-2015 J. Christopher Muran - Adelphi University, New York, USA
2007-2012 Paulo P. P. Machado - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
2004-2009 Clara Hill - University of Maryland, USA
2001-2006 Uwe Hentschel†
1995-2000 Bernhard Strauß - University of Jena, Germany
1999-2003 William B. Stiles - Miami University, USA
1994-1998 Robert Elliott - University of Strathclyde, Scotland
1991-1999 Hans H Strupp†
1991-1996 David Shapiro - Leeds University, UK
1991-1996 Klaus Grawe†
† Deceased
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracting and indexing
Psychotherapy Research is abstracted in:
- Medline
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI Psychology, Clinical JCR list)
- Psychological Abstracts
- PsycINFO
- PsycLIT
- Innovations & Research
Open access
Psychotherapy Research 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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