Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Psychol. Bull. Language English Publication history 1904-present | Discipline Psychology Edited by Dolores Albarracín | |
Publisher American Psychological Association (United States) | ||
The Psychological Bulletin is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes evaluative and integrative research reviews and interpretations of issues in psychology, including both qualitative (narrative) and/or quantitative (meta-analytic) aspects. The incoming editor-in-chief is Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).
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History
The journal was established by Johns Hopkins psychologist James Mark Baldwin in 1904, immediately after he had bought out James McKeen Cattell's share of Psychological Review, which the two had established ten years earlier. Baldwin gave the editorship of both journals to John B. Watson, when scandal forced him to resign his position at Johns Hopkins in 1909. Ownership of the Bulletin passed to Howard C. Warren, who eventually donated it to the American Psychological Association, which continues to own it to the present day.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 14.756, ranking it 3rd out of 129 journals in the category "Psychology, Multidisciplinary".