Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

This page provides an overview of our submission guidelines. For complete author guidelines, please visit: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/ampps/ampps-submission-guidelines

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) is the home for innovative developments in research methods, practices, and conduct across the full range of areas and topics within psychological science. AMPPS publishes new types of empirical work and articles and tutorials that reflect the various approaches to research across the field. The journal’s editorial scope encompasses the breadth of psychological science, with editors, reviewers, and articles representing a balance among diverse disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. AMPPS encourages integration of methodological and analytical questions across multiple branches of psychological science and brings the latest methodological advances to non-methodology experts across all areas of the field.

Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/AMPPS. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science welcomes submissions that communicate advances in methods, practices, and metascience from all areas of scientific psychology and related disciplines. The journal publishes a range of article types, including empirical articles that exemplify best practices, articles that discuss current research methods and practices in an accessible manner, and tutorials that teach researchers how to use new tools in their own research programs. The journal particularly encourages articles that bring useful advances from within a specialized area to a broader audience. 

The journal is taking part in a STM Association pilot to standardize definitions and terminology in open peer review practices. The pilot also aims to help make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent and comparable across publishers.
 
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
 
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: Review reports author opt in; Review reports reviewer opt in; Author/editor communication; Reviewer identities reviewer opt in

Read the latest editorial policies from the APS Publications Committee.

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

Open access article processing charge (APC) information 

From 1st January 2021, Advances in Methods in Practices in Psychological Science will become a fully open access journal. To facilitate this transition, all articles first submitted on or afters 1st November 2020 will be subject to an open access article processing charge (APC). The article processing charge (APC) is 2000 USD, currently discounted to a rate of 1000 USD. The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.

Research Data - Code Ocean Trial 

Through 2019 Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science is running a trial with Code Ocean. Authors can upload the code associated with their published article so that readers can view and execute it. The platform, which is based on Docker, hosts the code and data in the necessary computational environment and allows users to re-run the analysis in the cloud and reproduce the results, bypassing the need to install the software. A link to the code, data and computational environment will be included in the journal article enabling readers to seamlessly access and reproduce the code or rerun it against their own inputs. Please visit this page for more information and instructions for how to utilize this service for your article. If you wish to use this service, please upload your code as soon as possible after receiving an acceptance letter, to ensure the code can be linked to your article during the production process.

Transparent Peer Review

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science offers transparent peer review as a choice for authors and reviewers, where the reviews at each stage, author responses and editor’s decision letters will be publicly available on the ScholarOne Transparent Peer Review platform and linked to from the published article should the article be accepted. Authors and reviewers both have the opportunity to opt-out. Reviewers are encouraged to sign their reviews but their comments will be published anonymously should they choose not to do so.