Psychological Methods

Psychological Methods is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. It was established in 1996 and covers "the development and dissemination of methods for collecting, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting psychological data".^[1] The editor-in-chief is Lisa Harlow (University of Rhode Island).

Psychological Methods

Discipline	Psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Lisa Harlow (Outgoing), Douglas Steinley (Incoming)
Publication details
History	1996-present
Publisher	American Psychological Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	11.302 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Psychol. Methods
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1082-989X (print) 1939-1463 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. ^[2] The TOP Guidelines provide structure to research planning and reporting and aim to make research more transparent, accessible, and reproducible. ^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 11.302.^[4]