The American Psychological Association is partnering with the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to publish a new quarterly journal, Translational Issues in Psychological Science. The inaugural issue, a special issue titled 'The Science of Sleep,' is now available.
The journal has two primary goals: to provide critical reviews of contemporary issues in psychology for a broad audience - including the interested public along with academic professionals who are not psychologists - and to serve as a training ground for graduate students and early career psychologists who want to gain experience with a professional journal in their field.
Each issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science (TPS) will address a different theme from multiple viewpoints, focusing on a single important, timely or potentially controversial topic. Articles will include basic scientific research as well as conclusions that address applications of the research findings. In its inaugural year, the journal plans to address the topics of sleep, obesity, teaching and learning, and prejudice and discrimination. By offering the latest understanding on issues of wide public interest, TPS will demonstrate how the science of psychology can contribute to bettering the lives of individuals and society as a whole.
Uniquely, each issue will have a guest editor who will work with a team of associate editors who are advanced predoctoral or early postdoctoral scholars. Every article will have at least one senior scientist author and one student author. Articles will be reviewed by professional psychologists, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
The journal was initiated by members of the Science Committee of APAGS. Students were involved in every phase of the journal's development. APAGS members will serve on the editorial board of TPS and will have responsibility for recruiting and training graduate student reviewers. Already, the journal reports, nearly 200 trainees have completed the online manuscript-reviewer certification program.
Dr. Mary Beth Kenkel serves as editor-in-chief of the new journal. Kenkel is professor of psychology and dean of the College of Psychology and Liberal Arts at the Florida Institute of Technology. A former editor of the APA journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice®, Kenkel notes that TPS relies on psychology researchers to work as editors, reviewers and mentors.
Prospective contributors and subscribers are encouraged to visit the journal's APA homepage.
Articles published in Translational Issues in Psychological Science are also available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of more than 3,400 institutions and 60 million potential users.
