Call for Papers
The Journal of Human Psychology accepts submissions throughout the year. This page sets out the research it is looking for and the terms that apply.
JHP ISSN 2644-1101 Submissions accepted year-round No submission or review fee Open access · CC BY 4.0
Submit your research to JHP
The Journal of Human Psychology welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams working across human psychology.
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year. There is no closing date to work to and no queue to join: a manuscript enters editorial screening when it arrives.
Where a focused collection is running, it is listed on the special issues page with its own scope and closing date. A manuscript does not need a collection to be published: the invitation on this page stands on its own.
What the journal is looking for
The journal publishes research on human psychological processes and behavior, with an applied emphasis in care, communities, schools, workplaces and everyday life. Clinical, health and applied research sit alongside basic and experimental psychology. The central requirement is a substantive psychological contribution supported by evidence and methods, or a rigorous scholarly argument, appropriate to its claims.
Work in any of the journal’s domains is welcome. These are the areas where a manuscript is most likely to find its readers here:
| Domain | The kind of work this invites |
|---|---|
| Clinical psychology and mental health | Psychotherapy outcomes and comparative effectiveness, trauma-informed care, diagnostic assessment and clinical decision making, crisis intervention, patient-reported outcomes, integrated care models |
| Community psychology and public health behavior | Community interventions and participatory research, behavior-change and prevention programs, health equity and access, program evaluation and implementation research, stigma reduction |
| Health psychology and behavioral medicine | Behavioral adherence and lifestyle change, stress and coping, behavioral interventions in chronic disease, pain and quality of life, health communication and patient engagement |
| Industrial-organizational and workplace psychology | Workplace wellbeing and burnout prevention, leadership and organizational climate, work stress and engagement, occupational mental health interventions, inclusion at work, hybrid working |
| Developmental and family psychology | Development across the lifespan, child and adolescent psychology, family relationships and parenting, adult development and aging, risk and resilience |
| Social and cultural psychology | Social cognition, attitudes and identity, group processes and social influence, cultural and cross-cultural differences, migration and adaptation, social support |
| Educational and school psychology | Learning, motivation and self-efficacy, student wellbeing, classroom behavior, teacher psychology, school climate and assessment |
| Psychological assessment and measurement | Scale development and validation, reliability, measurement invariance, assessment equity, instrument research in its own right |
| Cognition, personality, motivation and emotion | Perception, attention, memory, learning, reasoning, language, executive function, personality and individual differences, emotion and self-regulation |
Interdisciplinary submissions are read on the same terms as any other. A manuscript from public health, education, medicine, organizational research or behavioral science fits when a psychological construct, mechanism, experience or behavioral outcome is central to the contribution. The boundary section of the aims and scope page shows how that is assessed, with examples on both sides.
Article types invited
- Original research. Empirical studies, basic or applied. Replication studies and well-supported null findings are eligible, and a measured effect in a real setting is publishable on its own terms.
- Review articles and evidence syntheses. Systematic and narrative reviews that advance psychological theory or inform practice, policy or program design.
- Program evaluations. Evaluations of community, school or workplace interventions. A positive intervention effect is not a condition of scope.
- Qualitative and mixed-methods studies. Work that captures lived experience and context, with the coding structure and analytic procedure reported in full.
- Short communications. Focused reports of a single finding, method or instrument.
- Editorial and commentary material. Commissioned and editorial contributions on questions within the journal’s remit.
No fixed numerical limit applies to references, figures, or tables. Include only material necessary to support the work, subject to editorial assessment. Existing word-count, abstract, and keyword limits remain unchanged.
Word limits, abstract structure and the reporting guideline for each type are on the instructions for authors.
Who should consider submitting
The journal is edited on the assumption that a paper should be useful both to the researchers who publish here and to the people who act on the findings.
Researchers
- Psychologists in clinical, community, health, occupational, developmental, social, cultural and educational psychology.
- Researchers whose subject is psychological measurement and assessment.
- Behavioral scientists studying decision making, motivation, emotion and identity.
- Interdisciplinary teams whose work has a clear psychological component.
Practitioner-researchers
- Clinicians and service leads with outcome data from their own settings.
- School and educational psychologists, and teachers running evaluated programs.
- Occupational and organizational practitioners with measured workplace interventions.
- Public health and community teams reporting behavior-change work.
Work conducted outside a laboratory, in a service or a school or a workplace, is read on the same terms as any other submission. What the journal asks in return is that the reporting be complete enough for a reader elsewhere to judge whether the finding applies to them.
The terms that apply
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Submission fee
- USD 0
- Peer review fee
- USD 0
- Article processing charge
- USD 1,200 per accepted article, raised after acceptance only
- Student rate
- USD 900 per accepted article, with valid student identification
- License
- CC BY 4.0, authors retain copyright
- Identifiers
- Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302
- Closing date
- None. Submissions are accepted throughout the year
Editorial and production periods are targets rather than commitments, and are not published as figures. Authors for whom the charge would prevent publication are invited to write to the editorial office before submitting; the full terms are on the article processing charges page.
How to submit
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
- Primary route. ManuscriptZone — the journal’s submission system, and the route that gives an author a record of the manuscript’s progress.
- Alternative route. Manuscript submission form — a single page, no account required, suited to a straightforward manuscript.
- Assisted route. [email protected] — for an author who cannot use either route above.
Read the instructions for authors before preparing the manuscript, and work through the checklist at the foot of that page before submitting. Authors who are unsure whether a manuscript sits inside the remit are welcome to write to the editorial office with a short summary first.
Related pages
Submissions are accepted throughout the year
Start with the aims and scope if you are judging fit, or the instructions for authors if you have already decided. Questions go to the editorial office at [email protected].
Journal of Human Psychology (JHP) · ISSN 2644-1101 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · Published by Open Access Pub · Content licensed CC BY 4.0, authors retain copyright