Multivariate Behavioral Research

Multivariate Behavioral Research is the flagship journal of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), published by Taylor & Francis, founded in 1966 and devoted to the dissemination, evaluation and application of quantitative methods to the behavioral sciences, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.5（Multivariate Behavioral Research）是多元实验心理学学会（SMEP）的旗舰期刊，由 Taylor & Francis 出版，1966 年创刊，致力于定量方法在行为科学中的传播、评价与应用，2025 年影响因子为 3.5。

Scope

• It is a journal devoted to the dissemination, evaluation and application of quantitative methods to the behavioral sciences该刊致力于定量方法在行为科学中的传播、评价与应用。
• It aims to publish articles for a wide audience of quantitative methodologists and substantive researchers who wish to use advanced methods in their work面向希望在工作中使用高级方法的定量方法学家与实证研究者。
• Its goal is to have a long-term transformative effect on research in psychology and the behavioral sciences其目标是对心理学与行为科学的研究产生长期的变革性影响。
• Regular contributions advance or evaluate current quantitative methods and must contain numerical examples常规论文推进或评价现有定量方法，且必须包含数值示例。
• Software contributions introduce new software or packages or significant extensions of existing software, tutorials and reviews serve teaching and the state of the art, and quantitative applications cover empirically quantitative or technical work reviewed by both domain and quantitative experts软件贡献刊载新软件或软件包及对既有软件的重要扩展，教程与综述服务教学与前沿综述，定量应用栏目刊载行为科学中偏定量或偏技术的实证工作，由领域专家与定量专家共同评审。
• A special topic issue appears each year, and the journal publishes the keynote articles of the Sells Award and Early Career Award winners as well as the Tanaka Award for the best paper of the year, and authors are encouraged to submit code and data as supplementary materials该刊每年出版一期专题，刊发 Sells 奖与青年学者奖得主的演讲文章以及年度最佳论文 Tanaka 奖，并鼓励作者把代码与数据作为补充材料投稿。

History

• It was founded in 1966 by the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology as its flagship journal and has never changed its name该刊 1966 年由多元实验心理学学会创办，为其旗舰期刊，至今未更名。^[1][2]
• Its first editor-in-chief was Desmond Cartwright, who served from 1966 to 1971其首任主编为 Desmond Cartwright，任期为 1966 年至 1971 年。
• It was first published by the society itself, with an editorial office recorded at Fort Worth, Texas创刊时由学会自办出版，出版地记为得克萨斯州沃思堡。
• It is now published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of SMEP, with the publishing office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania现由 Taylor & Francis 代表 SMEP 出版，出版办公室位于宾夕法尼亚州费城。
• It has appeared six times a year since 2009, that is bimonthly自 2009 年起每年出版六期，即双月刊。
• Its 2025 impact factor is 3.5 in the first quartile, its CiteScore is 8.5, its acceptance rate is 26 percent and the median time from acceptance to online publication is 48 days其 2025 年影响因子为 3.5，位列第一四分位，CiteScore 为 8.5，接受率为 26%，自接受至在线出版的中位时间为 48 天。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Alberto Maydeu-Olivares of the University of South Carolina in the United States, whose research covers psychometrics, latent variable modelling, structural equation models and fit statistics for categorical and ordinal data现任主编 Alberto Maydeu-Olivares，任教于美国南卡罗来纳大学，研究覆盖心理测量、潜变量建模、结构方程模型以及分类与有序数据的拟合统计量。
• The associate editors are Michael C. Edwards, Sacha Epskamp, Emilio Ferrer, Lesa Hoffman, Douglas Steinley, Felix Thoemmes, Ji-Seung Yang and Zhiyong Zhang副编辑包括 Michael C. Edwards、Sacha Epskamp、Emilio Ferrer、Lesa Hoffman、Douglas Steinley、Felix Thoemmes、Ji-Seung Yang 与 Zhiyong Zhang。
• Section-specific associate editors cover special issues, software contributions, tutorials and reviews, and quantitative applications设有分类专责副编辑，分别负责专刊、软件贡献、教程与综述以及定量应用。
• The editorial board is mainly American, with members also drawn from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, and numbers some thirty scholars编委会以美国学者为主，兼有来自荷兰、德国与英国的成员，总数约三十人。
• All review papers undergo editorial screening and peer review, and a blinded manuscript is required at submission所有论文均经编辑初筛与同行评审，投稿须提交去标识的匿名稿。
• Authors may contact the editor-in-chief before submission about topics that appear to fall outside the journal's scope作者可在投稿前就看似超出本刊范围的主题联系主编。