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Aims and scope

Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) provides counselor educators, researchers, educators, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and program evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. It addresses topics such as treatment efficacy, program impacts, clinical diagnostic practices, research and evaluation designs, and outcome measure reviews. This journal also serves to address ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research. Manuscripts typically fall into one of the following categories:

Counseling Outcome Research: Treatment efficacy and effectiveness of mental health, school, addictions, rehabilitation, family, and college counseling interventions across the lifespan as reported in clinical trials, single-case research designs, single-group designs, and multi- or mixed-method designs.

Outcome-Based Program Evaluation: Evaluation practices across counseling settings, program development and process evaluations, quantitative, qualitative, and multi- or mixed-method outcome evaluations, evaluation methodology, evaluation ethics, interdisciplinary evaluations, cultural issues in program evaluations.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Qualitative and quantitative syntheses of outcome research featuring estimations of treatment effectiveness, characteristics that moderate outcomes, and implications for public policy. Reliability and validity generalization studies.

Outcome-Based Diagnostic Practices: Reports and evaluations of diagnostic practices and processes in clinical settings, particularly in reference to differential diagnosis, dual diagnosis issues, incidence and prevalence of clinical diagnoses. Reports of broader impacts of diagnostic practices on treatment, prognosis, and well-being.

Outcome Research Design: Methodological issues in intervention research, innovative qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methodology, single subject designs, case studies exemplifying assessment and outcome research practices, statistics in assessment and outcome research, data analysis procedures, and report writing.

Outcome Measure Reviews: Critical reviews and integration of classes or groups of clinical assessment tools used as dependent variables in research studies and outcome measures in clinical practice.

Journal metrics

Usage

22K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

4.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.884 (2023) SNIP
0.424 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

31% acceptance rate

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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.

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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus

Editorial board

EDITOR

Joshua C. Watson, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS
Professor & Chair, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Isabel Santos
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

EDITORIAL FELLOWS

Haley Ault
University of South Florida

Adriana Labarta
Florida Atlantic University

EDITORIAL BOARD

Na Mi Bang (2023)
Indiana University

Andrew Burke (2024)
Marshall University

Rochelle Cade (2024)
Sam Houston State University

Catherine Chang (2025)
Georgia State University

Ryan Cook (2026)
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Tahani Dari (2026)
University of Detroit Mercy

Sabina de Vries (2023)
Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Heather Delgado (2023)
Auburn University

Courtney Evans-Thompson (2026)
Liberty University

Ni Gao (2026)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jennifer Gerlach (2026)
Longwood University

Donna Gibson (2026)
Virginia Commonwealth University

Christine Gonzales-Wong (2025)
Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Jessica Gonzalez-Voller (2026)
Colorado State University

Christina Hamme Peterson (2024)
Rider University

Shaywanna Harris-Pierre (2026)
Texas State University

James P. Ikonomopoulos (2026)
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Chi Li (2023)
The University of Memphis

W. Bradley McKibben (2024)
Jacksonville University

Rebecca McLean (2026)
Western Illinois University-Quad Cities

Patrick Mullen (2026)
Virginia Commonwealth University

Matthew Nice (2026)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Seungbin Oh (2023)
Boston University

Danielle Pester (2026)
Auburn University

Elizabeth Prosek (2026)
The Pennsylvania State University

Corrine Sackett (2024)
Clemson University

Erika Schmit (2023)
University of Mississippi

Jyotsana Sharma (2023)
Oklahoma State University

Donna Sheperis (2024)
Palo Alto University

Jaimie Stickl Haugen (2023)
College of William & Mary

Jacqueline Swank (2026)
University of Missouri

Olivia Uwamahoro (2026)
University of West Georgia

Naomi Wheeler (2023)
Virginia Commonwealth University

AD HOC REVIEWERS

Richard S. Balkin
The University of Mississippi

Casey Barrio-Minton
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Carl J. Sheperis
Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Cassandra Storlie
Kent State University

Kelly Wester
University of North Carolina—Greensboro

Abstracting and indexing

Published in the Winter and Summer

Abstracted/Indexed in:

National Centre for PTSD
OCLC

ArticleFirst
Electronic Collections Online

Ovid
ProQuest

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

PsycINFO
Scopus

Open access

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Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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