Development and Psychopathology

Development and Psychopathology is a multidisciplinary journal published by Cambridge University Press, founded in 1989 by Dante Cicchetti and devoted to the study of typical and atypical development across the lifespan, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.5（Development and Psychopathology）由（Cambridge University Press）出版，1989 年由 Dante Cicchetti 创办，专注个体一生中典型与非典型发展的跨学科研究，2025 年影响因子为 3.5。

Scope

• Empirical, theoretical and review papers on the interrelationship of typical and atypical development探讨典型与非典型发展相互关系的实证、理论与综述论文。
• The interplay between normal and abnormal, and between adaptation and maladaptation正常与异常之间、适应与适应不良之间的相互作用。
• Multiple developmental pathways and processes, including equifinality and multifinality多重发展路径与过程，包括殊途同归与同途殊归。
• Lifespan development, extending beyond childhood and adolescence into adulthood and ageing覆盖全生命历程的发展研究，超出儿童与青少年而延伸至成年与老年。
• Multidisciplinary, multi-level analysis integrating allied disciplines such as biology and neuroscience整合生物学、神经科学等相关学科的多学科、多层次分析。

History

• The journal was founded in 1989 by Dante Cicchetti, who had edited a landmark 1984 special issue of Child Development on the emerging field该刊 1989 年由 Dante Cicchetti 创办，此前他曾主编 1984 年（Child Development）关于该新兴领域的里程碑式专刊。
• Its publication was a watershed event that helped establish developmental psychopathology as a discipline in its own right该刊的出版是标志性事件，推动发展精神病理学成为一门独立学科。
• It is published by Cambridge University Press and issued five times a year该刊由（Cambridge University Press）出版，每年出版五期。
• In 2025 it introduced Registered Reports and a new Views format, and it aligns with the TOP open-science guidelines2025 年该刊引入注册报告（Registered Reports）与新栏目 Views，并对齐 TOP 开放科学准则。

Editors

• Dante Cicchetti, the founding editor, became founding editor emeritus in 2025创始主编 Dante Cicchetti 于 2025 年转任创始荣休主编。
• Ben Hankin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a co-editor-in-chief现任共同主编之一为（University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign）的 Ben Hankin。
• Glenn I. Roisman of the University of Minnesota is the other co-editor-in-chief另一位共同主编为（University of Minnesota）的 Glenn I. Roisman。
• Articles are normally peer reviewed, and the co-editors perform initial screening and desk rejection before review文章通常经过同行评审，共同主编在送审前进行初审并作出退稿决定。