Journal Reputations

[NeuroTrope]

Thought I'd ask the neuropsych folks what they think of ACN, TCN, JCEN, JINS, etc. We can talk about non-neuro journals too. My opinion:

Neuropsychology: Gold standard for experimental studies - APA journal after all. Typically does not accept archival data. Great if you have neuroimaging correlates. However, I find that studies of this caliber might be better served in other types of journal types such as those for psychiatry or neuroscience.

Psychological Assessment: Good for psychometric studies and also an APA journal. I've published here with some archival sets but you really have to know some advanced statistical techniques.

Neuropsychologia: Never published here, but high impact factor. Anyone have thoughts?

JINS: A respectable second tier journal that is similar in scope to Neuropsychology. It gets wide readership as it goes out to all INS folks.

ACN: Solid second or third tier journal with widespread NAN readership. Publishes clinician-friendly stuff though lately I've been seeing some more experimental/laboratory studies in here.

TCN: Another second or third solid journal. Archival data often gets published here.

JCEN: Another "general" journal alongside ACN and TCN that publishes a wide range of studies, though they seem to focus more on lesion work lately.

Applied Neuropsychology: Good for archival studies, haven't seen too much experimental research. Their slow publication rate limits their impact factor.

Child/Developmental Neuropsychology: Good for pediatric studies, otherwise not much to say. I consider these third tier journals as well.

Journal of Neuropsychology: Not too familiar with this one.

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[neuronic]

Neuropsychologia: Never published here, but high impact factor. Anyone have thoughts?

Probably the most likely for EEG/ERP studies. Pretty quick review time which is a plus, but quality reviews.

JINS: A respectable second tier journal that is similar in scope to Neuropsychology. It gets wide readership as it goes out to all INS folks.

Given the rising numbers of INS, I would put this among first-tier neuropsych, which is not saying much when most impact factors are below 5🙁

Journal of Neuropsychology: Not too familiar with this one.

Yeah, definately not to be confused with Neuropsychology. Two completely different beasts.

I would say that if you have a really good study with fMRI or ERPs, shoot for Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Aging (if age is a factor), or Journal of Neuroscience. If it is an amazing rehab study or has relevance to clinical practice, then JAMA is not out of the question, though highly unlikely.

 

[coldsweat]

Psychological Assessment: Good for psychometric studies and also an APA journal. I've published here with some archival sets but you really have to know some advanced statistical techniques.

Psychological Assessment is probably my favorite journal of the journals that you listed. The studies on the development of new measures usually don't interest me because they usually measure restricted constructs, but I love the studies that use a new method or take a different perspective on a well-established instrument (e.g. Wechslers). Plus you occasionally have quantitative material in there directly relevant to neuropsych, which is always a treat. My goal is to publish in here before I graduate.

Child/Developmental Neuropsychology: Good for pediatric studies, otherwise not much to say. I consider these third tier journals as well.

Child Neuropsych contains good information for practitioners, although often the designs are just variants of correlations/regressions/profile analyses (e.g. what is the relationship between a given test and a given outcome in a given population) so it's not as exciting to me. I view Developmental Neuropsychology as the more reputable journal because they change up the game more with more a mix between theoretical and practical articles, plus they publish more EEG/fMRI studies.

 

[NeuroTrope]

I wanted to revive this as I will soon be applying for faculty jobs. I'm still a fellow and I have far more publications in journals like Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology and The Clinical Neuropsychologist than I do in Neuropsychology or other APA journals. How crucial is it that I have pubs in top journals when I apply? My understanding is that ACN, TCN, JCEN and the like are reputable and no one will really question people who publish in them. I do have one article (not first) in Neuropsychology and a couple pubs in Psychological Assessment and some other non-neuro journals (not APA). Just wondering how important this is as I apply for faculty jobs.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Impact Factor is a consideration…though I'm not sure how different they are as a group.

 

[Pragma]

I wanted to revive this as I will soon be applying for faculty jobs. I'm still a fellow and I have far more publications in journals like Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology and The Clinical Neuropsychologist than I do in Neuropsychology or other APA journals. How crucial is it that I have pubs in top journals when I apply? My understanding is that ACN, TCN, JCEN and the like are reputable and no one will really question people who publish in them. I do have one article (not first) in Neuropsychology and a couple pubs in Psychological Assessment and some other non-neuro journals (not APA). Just wondering how important this is as I apply for faculty jobs.

Honestly, I don't think you have much to worry about if you are looking at an R1 job where you are doing significant clinical work and supervision. I'd imagine those pubs (ACN, TCN) would be reputable enough. But if you want to get a more straight-up research role, I can't really comment on that as I'm not affiliated with R1 search committees looking for an 80/20 or 100% research person.

A lot of the neuropsychologists in my locale are more clinically-focused, and the ones who do a lot of high impact work tend to either a) spread the word via reputable places within the field with wide readership among clinicians (e.g., TCN because of the AACN affiliation, JINS, or ACN) or b) publish in medical specialty journals. It's really the most heavy-hitting folks that I know with multiple pubs in the "top tier" mentioned earlier. N=1 though.

Good luck on the market!

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Thought I'd ask the neuropsych folks what they think of ACN, TCN, JCEN, JINS, etc. We can talk about non-neuro journals too.

I thought I'd bump this because I wanted to get more input from people about what they read.

My "regular" reads include:

TCN
Neuropsychology
Journal of Neurotrauma
The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation