A new APA Journal, co-sponsored by APAGS, is looking for reviewers and accepting submissions for a special issue on How Psychological Science Can Improve Our Classrooms! Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists are Especially Invited to Participate
Translational Issues in Psychological Science (TPS, 2015), edited by Mary Beth Kenkel, PhD of Florida Institute of Technology, is a unique mentoring journal that involves psychologists in training in all stages of the peer-review process. Students and early career psychologists will co-author the articles, serve as reviewers, and have the chance to serve as an associate editor for one issue.
Each issue of TPS concentrates on a single important, timely, and/or potentially controversial theme in translational science that is of broad interest to scientists, practitioners, and the general public. Each article covers a body of basic scientific research and concludes with an application section.
Each issue is edited by a team consisting of the special issue editor, who is an expert in the topical area, and mentored associate editors, who are psychologists in advanced stages of training (i.e. advanced doctoral students or post-doctoral psychologists).
One of the first issues of the journal, How Psychological Science Can Improve Our Classrooms, features Special Issue Editor Elizabeth J. Marsh, PhD, and Associate Editors Katie Arnold, PhD, Megan Smith, MS, and Sara L. Stromeyer, MA. The Editors will consider manuscripts focused on learning and retention, social relations, education for students with special needs and health concerns, early education, and many other topics central to incorporating psychological research in the classroom.
Other issues include The Science of Sleep, Psychological and Neuroscientific Advances in Obesity, andCurrent Perspectives in Prejudice and Discrimination.
To sign up to review, psychologists in training should be enrolled in a doctoral program or serving as a postdoctoral scholar, be a member of APA or APAGS (learn more here), and have experience with peer-reviewed journals (e.g. as a reviewer, or someone who has received a decision on a manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal).Apply today! To start the application process to become a reviewer for TPS, upload a two-page CV highlighting your peer-review experience to the APAGS Journal Reviewer website. CV should include your affiliation and year of training, any manuscripts that you have submitted to a peer-reviewed outlet, and any service you have as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals or conference submissions.
To learn more about Translational Issues in Psychological Science, and submit your manuscript, visit:http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tps/