Developmental Psychology (journal)

*Developmental Psychology*
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Discipline	Developmental psychology
Sprache	Englisch
Edited by	Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Publication details
History	1969-present
Publisher	American Psychological Association (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	3.214 (2011)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Dev. Psychol.
Indexing;
CODEN	DEVPA9
ISSN	0012-1649 (print); 1939-0599 (web);
LCCN	77235958
OCLC no.	01566542
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access;

Developmental Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal covers research in developmental psychology and "includes significant empirical contributions as well as scholarly reviews and theoretical or methodological articles".^[1] The current editor-in-chief is Jacquelynne S. Eccles (University of Michigan).

History

The journal was established in 1969 ^[2]. The first editor-in-chief was Boyd R. McCandless (Emory University).

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 3.214, ranking it 12th out of 68 journals in the category "Psychology, Developmental"^[3]

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^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Developmental". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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