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Psychology & Behavioural Science Journals · Pulse

Psychology and behavioural-science journals constitute the principal scholarly-publishing infrastructure for psychological research across cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, behavioural economics, organisational behaviour, and the broader psychology-related disciplines. The dominant high-impact venues: Psychological Science (Association for Psychological Science flagship, IF ~7), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP, the American Psychological Association flagship for social-and-personality psychology), Journal of Experimental Psychology family (General, Learning Memory and Cognition, Human Perception and Performance, Animal Learning and Cognition, Applied), Psychological Bulletin (the principal psychology review-journal), Annual Review of Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Cell Press), Behavioral and Brain Sciences (the substantial open-peer-commentary journal), Nature Human Behaviour (founded 2017, the Nature Research social-and-behavioral-sciences premium-tier journal, IF ~21).\n\nThe sub-disciplinary psychology-journal landscape covers cognitive psychology (Cognitive Psychology, Memory & Cognition, Cognition), social psychology (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology), developmental psychology (Child Development, Developmental Psychology), clinical psychology (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychological Science), neuropsychology (Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychology), behavioural neuroscience (Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience), behavioural economics (Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Judgement and Decision Making), organisational behaviour (Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes). The post-2011 replication-crisis discussion (sparked by the Open Science Collaboration's Reproducibility Project: Psychology, 2015) has substantially restructured psychology-publishing toward pre-registration, registered reports, replication-emphasis, and the broader open-science practices that PsyArXiv preprint server (founded 2016) supports.\n\nIndia's psychology-publishing infrastructure includes the Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists journal), Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Indian Journal of Social and Behavioural Research, Psychological Studies (the National Academy of Psychology India journal), the substantial Indian psychological-research output through National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS Bangalore — the principal Indian mental-health-and-psychology research institution), AIIMS Delhi Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Psychology at major universities (Delhi, JNU, BHU, Jadavpur, Calcutta, Madras, Mumbai, Pune), the substantial post-2010 emergence of dedicated psychology departments at IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur HSS departments. The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) supports psychology-related research. Indian-origin psychology scholars have substantial international research influence — Saroj Pachauri (developmental psychology), Janak Pandey (social psychology), Suvarna Alladi (cognitive neuroscience), the substantial Indian-origin senior-faculty at major US-and-European psychology departments.\n\nFor a globally-mobile psychology researcher, the publication infrastructure is uniformly cross-jurisdictionally accessible. The post-2015 open-science movement plus the PsyArXiv preprint culture has substantially expanded pre-publication-sharing.\n\nCross-references: psychology journals intersect with paper-root-psych, academy-social-sciences, journal-root-medicine (especially for clinical psychology and psychiatry), human-root-sociology, acadx-root-socialwork, acadx-root-publichealth, and the broader behavioural-research ecosystem.