Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. It publishes original empirical papers, reviews, and meta-analyses on the contribution of psychological science to law and public policy.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

Discipline	Psychology, Forensic psychology, Legal psychology, Law
Language	English
Edited by	Michael Lamb
Publication details
History	1995–present
Publisher	American Psychological Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L.
ISO 4	Psychol. Public Policy Law
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1076-8971 (print) 1939-1528 (web)
LCCN	95658604
OCLC no.	635218700
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. ^[1] The TOP Guidelines provide structure to research planning and reporting and aim to make research more transparent, accessible, and reproducible. ^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

PPPL is abstracted and indexed by Criminal Justice Abstracts, Current Contents, Family Index, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.3^[3]

Editors

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief of this journal:

• Tess Neal, (incoming, 2025-present) Iowa State University
• Michael Lamb, (2013–2024) University of Cambridge
• Ronald Roesch, (2008–2012) Simon Fraser University
• Steven Penrod, (2007) John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Jane Goodman-Delahunty, (2001-2006) Charles Sturt University
• Bruce Sales, (1995-2000) University of Arizona