About the Journal of Human Psychology
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal for research on human psychological processes and behavior, spanning basic, applied, methodological and conceptual contributions.
JHP ISSN 2644-1101 Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 Open access · CC BY 4.0 Published by Open Access Pub Publishing since 2017
What the journal is
The Journal of Human Psychology (JHP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Open Access Pub. It has published continuously since 2017 under ISSN 2644-1101, and every article carries a Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302.
JHP publishes research on human psychological processes and behavior, with an applied emphasis and a broad remit. Basic, experimental, methodological and evidence-engaged conceptual work is welcome without a requirement for immediate practical application. A substantive psychological contribution holds this wide field together.
The journal covers cognition, personality, motivation and emotion; clinical psychology and mental health; community psychology and public health behavior; health psychology and behavioral medicine; and industrial-organizational and workplace psychology, together with developmental and family, social and cultural, educational and school psychology, and applied assessment and measurement. Its methodological coverage also includes psychometrics and the foundations of psychological inference. The coverage, and the boundary that goes with it, are set out in full on the aims and scope page.
Empirical research, evidence syntheses, program evaluations, qualitative and mixed-methods studies, short communications and editorial material are all published. Measurement is treated as subject matter and not only as method: instrument development, item analysis, factor structure, reliability and measurement invariance are publishable in their own right. Qualitative work should describe its analytic approach and researcher role, including coding where the method uses it. Conceptual contributions should develop a coherent psychological argument and engage critically with relevant evidence.
Research from adjacent fields is read on the same terms as any other submission. Public health, education, medicine, organizational research and behavioral science all meet psychology at the questions this journal is interested in, and a manuscript from any of them fits when its objectives, methods and interpretation address a substantive question about human psychological processes or behavior rather than describing the setting in which the work took place.
Why the journal exists
JHP provides an open scholarly forum for understanding human psychological processes and behavior. It connects basic investigation, methodological development and conceptual reasoning with applied questions in care, communities, schools and workplaces. Clear reporting allows readers to assess both what a contribution establishes and its limits.
Three commitments follow from that, and they shape what the journal accepts.
- Contribution takes several forms. Basic findings, applied evaluations, methodological advances and evidence-engaged conceptual arguments can each contribute to psychology. Replications and well-supported null findings are eligible within the journal's existing article formats.
- Method is subject matter. Instrument development, psychometric evaluation and fully reported qualitative procedure are read as research rather than as preliminaries to it, because the field's conclusions are only as good as the measures behind them.
- Psychology stays central. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work, and asks in return that the psychological contribution be part of the research question. That is what keeps a wide remit coherent rather than merely large.
Everything the journal publishes is open access from the day of publication under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, so no reader is separated from the evidence by a subscription and no author has to choose between reach and rigor.
Who the journal serves
JHP is written for two overlapping groups, and it is edited on the assumption that a paper should be useful to both.
Researchers who publish here
Psychologists working 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; practitioner-researchers based in services, schools and organizations as well as laboratories; cognitive and experimental psychologists, personality researchers and scholars developing psychological theory; and interdisciplinary teams whose work has a clear psychological component.
Readers who use what is published
Clinicians and service leads; educators and school psychologists; occupational and organizational practitioners; public health and community teams; and researchers looking for evidence, methods and arguments that inform their own work. Empirical reports should explain the design, population and measures where applicable; conceptual contributions should make their reasoning, evidence base and limitations explicit.
How manuscripts are handled
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. Where double-blind review is requested, author-identifying information is withheld from reviewers, and reviewers must not attempt to identify the authors.
- ScreeningScope, ethics documentation, completeness and originality.
- AssignmentA handling editor working in the manuscript's own area.
- Peer reviewIndependent subject-matter experts assess the work.
- DecisionThe handling editor decides, with the reviews in hand.
How decisions are reached
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Decisions rest with the handling editor and are independent of fees, services, memberships, or any role an author holds with the journal or the publisher. The article processing charge is raised only after a manuscript has been accepted, and the decision to accept is taken before any charge is discussed.
Who does the handling
The editorial board is international, and its members work across the areas the journal publishes in. Board members handle manuscripts in their own areas and are expected to decline any manuscript in which they hold a competing interest; a manuscript authored by an editor is handled independently of that editor. Each member's affiliation, specialty and, where supplied, ORCID iD are published on the board page so a reader can confirm who assessed what.
Editorial board Editorial policies Article processing charges
Research with human participants
Almost everything JHP publishes involves people who agreed to take part in it. The journal's requirements follow from that, and they apply to every manuscript rather than to a category of them.
Research involving human participants must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and authors must declare Institutional Review Board or ethics committee approval, confirm that informed consent was obtained, and confirm adherence to applicable national and institutional privacy regulations. Where participants are identifiable, or where a study reaches people whose circumstances make consent a more demanding matter, the manuscript is expected to say how that was handled. Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment.
Measurement and reporting are treated with the same seriousness. Manuscripts should describe measures and instruments clearly, justify the design, report the analysis in enough detail that a reader in the same subfield could evaluate the inference, and follow the reporting guideline appropriate to the study — CONSORT for randomized and intervention studies, STROBE for observational research, PRISMA for systematic reviews, COREQ for qualitative and mixed-methods work. Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
Authors must disclose financial or personal relationships that could influence the research, and editors and reviewers recuse themselves from any submission in which they hold a competing interest. Submissions are screened with Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate. Errors identified after publication are addressed through a published erratum or corrigendum, and articles may be retracted in accordance with COPE guidelines; the published record is corrected rather than quietly amended.
The requirements above are stated in full, with the procedures that go with them, on the editorial policies page.
Editorial policies Data archiving and permissions Reporting requirements
Access, copyright and the version of record
Every article is open access from the day of publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and authors retain copyright in their own work. Readers may reuse the material, including commercially, provided the original is attributed.
Articles carry a Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302, and the DOI is the citable link to the version of record: author, title, issue and license metadata are deposited with it, so the article can be resolved and cited permanently and can be found by any discovery service that reads Crossref. ISSN 2644-1101 is the journal's registered international serial identifier. Registration, identifiers and discovery services are separate things, and the journal's position on each is set out on its indexing page.
The published record
The journal has published continuously since 2017. Recent work in JHP has examined moral emotion and identity regulation among young British South Asian women; adolescent cultural identity and narrativization; hatred as a multi-faceted construct in protracted conflict; the use schools make of their own bullying and harassment data; student motivation in teaching and learning; workplace incivility and nurses' intent to quit; and the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy in higher education.
That list is a fair description of the journal's center of gravity: applied, often qualitative or mixed-method, and concerned with people in institutions. The complete record, issue by issue, is on the archive.
The journal at a glance
- Full title
- Journal of Human Psychology
- Abbreviation
- JHP
- ISSN (electronic)
- 2644-1101
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
- Publication history
- Publishing continuously since 2017
- Access
- Open access from the day of publication
- License
- CC BY 4.0 — authors retain copyright
- DOI registration
- Crossref, prefix 10.14302
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request
- Article processing charge
- Charged after acceptance only — see the article processing charges page
Related pages
Reviewing, and proposing a collection
Researchers who would like to review for JHP, or to propose a focused collection in an area of human psychology where a set of papers would be more useful than a single one, are invited to write to the editorial office at [email protected]. Authors preparing a manuscript should start with the instructions for authors, which carry the requirements for each format and the checklist to work through before submitting.
Journal of Human Psychology (JHP)
ISSN 2644-1101 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302
· Published by Open Access Pub ·
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