About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Anales de Psicologia / Annals of Psychology is a multidisciplinary journal of the various thematic areas of scientific psychology. It publishes original research articles and theoretical review in any of its basic, applied and methodological areas included within psychology.

Potential readers of the journal include anyone interested in scientific research in psychology, especially researchers, academics, and professionals in any field of psychology.

All articles are published in English, although Spanish versions are also welcome (optionally at the authors' discretion).

The journal's website can be viewed in English or Spanish. The information provided is the same in both languages.

Legal property and editorial management of the journal

The publication, financing, marketing and distribution are the responsibility of Editum: Editions of the University of Murcia (Spain), which is the legal owner of the journal.

The general editorial guidelines come from the aforementioned publisher, and the organizational guidelines and editorial criteria come from its Editorial Board, with the support and advice of the Editorial Board, composed of academics and experts from various national and international universities and institutions. All of them are proposed by the Departments and/or Areas of Psychology at the University of Murcia, which are periodically updated every four years. The leadership positions are chosen from among the members of the Editorial Board. All this according to the rules of Governance, functions and roles of the Editorial Team of the journal.

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted for possible publication in the journal undergo a two-phase review process:
- An initial preliminary review of format and style (APA standards, expressions, citations, references, etc.) is conducted by members of the journal's Editorial Board. Once this is completed, the manuscript is reviewed by expert researchers external to the journal.
- A second double-blind peer review. The scientific review system for original articles is external double-blind, that is, an anonymous review in which only the editor in charge of the review process knows the names of the authors and reviewers, but neither the authors know who is reviewing their article, nor vice versa. The review process is conducted by at least two specialists in the subject of the article, selected from among the best specialists, both national and international. Original empirical articles will be reviewed by experts in methodology. From the initial review to the editorial decision, the process can take up to six months.

Publication Frequency and issue structure and contents

It is a quarterly journal (from 2011): Each annual volume is published in three issues, in January (january-april), May (may-september) and October (october-december), online electronic publishing.

Articles are published in each issue of the journal. Each issue has its own table of contents and is usually grouped into sections related to the major themes of psychology (clinical, educational, social, cognitive, psychobiology, methodology, etc.).

Each article has its own website, accessible from the issue's table of contents or its DOI link, and is available as a full-text article in PDF format.

It is published in Internet (web) (ISSN: 1695-2294) since 2000, and it was published in print (ISSN: 0212-9728) from 1984 to 2023. All articles are available online full text in pdf from the vol. 1 1984.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open its contents in full text and access, under the principle that allow free access to the results of research affects a greater exchange of knowledge globally.

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Sponsor and collaboration

Collaboration:

Members of the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy and the Departments of Psychology at the University of Murcia collaborate in the editorial management of the journal.

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Journal History

Created in 1984. Peer review journal of scientific Psychology. Included in Journal Citation Reports (JCR, Clarivate Analytics, early Thomson Reuters) and Scimago Journal Rank (SJR, Scopus - Elsevier), and the major data bases (WoS, Scopus, PsycInfo, Ebsco, ProQuest, Scielo, etc.). Manuscripts submitted in English or Spanish but published only in English (and occasionally in Spanish if requested by the author).

See a more extensive history of the journal (in Spanish) at http://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/87421/84151

 

Interoperability Protocol

The journal provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows its contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.

Specifications:
● OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
● Dublin Core Metadata

Harvesters' Path: https://revistas.um.es/analesps/oai

 

Digital Preservation Policies

All journals published by the University of Murcia are hosted in the DIGITUM institutional repository, with a section for our journal. Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit their work published in Anales de Psicología in other repositories, as this promotes its circulation, dissemination, and preservation.