The Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the scientific, institutional, and cultural history of the social and behavioral sciences. The journal publishes research articles, book and media reviews, and news and notes that cover the development of topics, concepts, events, and issues in the core disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, economics, linguistics, communications, political science, medicine, health, and the neurosciences. The journal also welcomes papers, and book and media reviews, that address historical theory, methods, and historiography.

Original empirical research that addresses important theoretical, empirical, or methodological gaps in the literature

Research that informs the translation of theory into practice 

Research that provides relevant information for researchers and practitioners on best practices in design, intervention, implementation, evaluation, and outcomes 

Efforts that are the result of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration

Scholars, practitioners, and graduate students are invited to submit their manuscripts for publication following the Submission Guidelines for Authors. Several types of articles are published in the JSBS. They are:

Full-length empirical articles: Comprehensive reports of findings from quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-design research studies

Brief empirical articles: Succinct summaries of findings from quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-design research studies of minimal scope (e.g., pilot studies)

Comprehensive literature reviews: Articles providing summary and analysis of the body of existing research on a topic.

Scholarly essays: This section is for non-research but scholarly and academic insights related to issues of social and behavioral. These essays can be reports of innovative practice, reports of new practice, or other scholarly writing about the fields of social and behavioral. Such essays should be written in a scholar-practitioner voice that speaks to a knowledgeable audience.

Student research: Empirical articles or literature reviews which the first author initiated and/or completed in an undergraduate or graduate degree program.

Letters to the Editor

The content of submitted manuscripts should clearly be identified as belonging to one of the following domains: