Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Bulletin (commonly abbreviated as Psychol. Bull.) is a peer-reviewed psychology journal published by the American Psychological Association. Founded in 1904, it publishes evaluative and integrative research reviews and interpretations of issues in psychology, and is among the highest-impact journals in the field.《心理学公报》（Psychological Bulletin，常用缩写为 Psychol. Bull.）是一份由美国心理学会（American Psychological Association，简称 APA）出版的心理学同行评审学术期刊。该刊创刊于 1904 年，发表对心理学问题的评估性与综合性研究综述，是心理学领域影响最高的期刊之一。
Scope
The journal's editorial stance restricts it to evaluative and integrative synthesis as its sole article type, publishing no original empirical research and requiring that a paper offer a critical synthesis of a psychological question, whether in qualitative narrative or quantitative meta-analytic form. This restriction makes the journal one of the highest outlets for review articles in psychology. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以评估性与综合性为唯一体裁」，即不发表原创实证研究，而要求论文对某一心理学问题作批判性综合，无论采取定性叙述还是定量荟萃形式。这一体裁限定使该刊成为心理学领域综述类文章的最高发表出口之一。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：
- Cognition and memory: mechanisms of perception, attention, learning and memory, and the theoretical integration of these.认知与记忆： 知觉、注意、学习与记忆的机制及其理论整合。
- Emotion and motivation: theory and empirical synthesis of emotional processing, emotion regulation and motivational processes.情绪与动机： 情绪加工、情绪调节与动机过程的理论与实证综合。
- Personality and social psychology: the synthetic appraisal of personality structure, individual differences and social cognitive processes.人格与社会心理： 人格结构、个体差异与社会认知过程的综合评估。
- Clinical and abnormal psychology: mechanisms of psychopathology, diagnostic classification and meta-analytic appraisal of treatment efficacy.临床与异常心理： 心理病理机制、诊断分类与治疗效果的荟萃评估。
- Methodology and statistics: methodological appraisal of research design, effect size and reproducibility in psychology.方法学与统计： 心理学研究设计、效应量与可重复性的方法学评估。
The journal is a hybrid title. The subscription route charges authors nothing, while open access carries an article processing charge. The publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title, and the library's previous notes of very hard acceptance and about three months had no official basis and have been deleted. The journal is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Science Citation Index, and its 2025 impact factor places it among the leading psychology journals.该刊属混合出版模式：订阅路线不向作者收费，选择开放获取需支付文章处理费。出版方不公布该刊录用比例与审稿时长，库内原记录用率「很难」与审稿约三个月均无官方依据，已删除。该刊被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed、社会科学引文索引与科学引文索引收录，2025 年影响因子居心理学类期刊前列。
History
- Founding (1904): the journal was founded in 1904 by the Johns Hopkins psychologist James Mark Baldwin, immediately after he had bought out James McKeen Cattell's share of Psychological Review, which the two had established ten years earlier.创刊（1904年）： 本刊由约翰斯·霍普金斯大学心理学家詹姆斯·马克·鲍德温（James Mark Baldwin）于 1904 年创办，创办时他刚买下十年前与詹姆斯·麦肯·卡特尔共同创办的《心理学评论》中卡特尔的那一份。[1]
- Transfer of editorship: Baldwin had given the editorship of both journals to John B. Watson, who resigned when scandal forced Baldwin to leave Johns Hopkins in 1920. Ownership of the Psychological Bulletin then passed to Howard C. Warren.编辑权转移： 鲍德温曾把两刊的编辑权一并交给约翰·B·华生，1920 年因其丑闻被迫离开约翰斯·霍普金斯时辞去该职；《心理学公报》的所有权随后转至霍华德·C·沃伦。[1]
- Joining the APA: Howard C. Warren eventually donated the journal to the American Psychological Association, which has owned and published it ever since. This ownership is key to understanding the journal's editorial appointment mechanism.归属美国心理学会： 霍华德·C·沃伦最终把该刊捐赠给美国心理学会，此后一直由该会持有并出版；这一归属是理解该刊编辑任命机制的关键。[2]
- Editorial appointment mechanism: the journal's editor is appointed by the American Psychological Association's Publications and Communications Board for a six-year term, with appointments made in 2025 taking 2026 as the Editor-elect year and 2027 as the debut masthead year. This elect-then-serve mechanism is standard practice for editorial turnover in the association's journals.编辑任命机制： 该刊主编由美国心理学会出版与传播委员会任命，任期六年，2025 年起的任命以 2026 年为 Editor-elect 年、2027 年为正式刊头年；这一「先任候任再上任」的机制是该会刊物编辑更替的通行做法。[3]
- Current and incoming editors: Stefan G. Hofmann was appointed in 2025 and takes up the post formally in 2027, succeeding Blair T. Johnson. The library's previously missing editor field has been filled in from the official appointment.现任与候任主编： 斯特凡·霍夫曼（Stefan G. Hofmann）于 2025 年获任命，2027 年起正式任主编；离任者为布莱尔·约翰逊（Blair T. Johnson）。库内原缺编辑字段，已按官方任命补入。[3]
- Metric trend: the 2025 impact factor of 19.8, together with a five-year figure of 28.5, places the journal at the front of psychology journals, a position that follows directly from its restriction to evaluative reviews.指标走势： 影响因子自 2025 年的 19.8 与五年影响因子 28.5 共同刻画该刊位置；该刊在心理学类期刊中影响因子居前，与其只发评估性综述的体裁限定直接相关。[2]
Editors
The journal operates under a single editor appointed by the American Psychological Association's Publications and Communications Board for a six-year term, with a two-stage turnover comprising an Editor-elect year and a debut masthead year, and manuscripts submitted through the society's own submission system. The society publishes no editorial process detail beyond the journal's positioning.本刊实行主编负责制，主编由美国心理学会出版与传播委员会任命，任期六年，并采取「Editor-elect 年 + 正式刊头年」的两段式更替；稿件经学会自有的投稿系统投递。官方不公布除期刊定位之外的编辑流程细节。
- Stefan G. Hofmann (incoming editor from 2027): professor of psychology and brain sciences at Boston University, working on cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders and transdiagnostic mechanisms, his appointment recorded in the American Psychological Association's Publications and Communications Board 2025 report.斯特凡·霍夫曼（候任主编，2027年起任）： 波士顿大学心理与脑科学教授，研究方向为焦虑障碍的认知行为治疗与跨诊断机制；其任命由美国心理学会出版与传播委员会 2025 年报告载明。[3]
- Blair T. Johnson (outgoing editor): during his tenure the journal maintained its restriction to evaluative and integrative reviews and, against the background of the reproducibility crisis, tightened its requirements on meta-analytic methodology.布莱尔·约翰逊（离任主编）： 其任内该刊维持了只发评估性与综合性综述的体裁限定，并在可重复性危机背景下加强了对荟萃分析方法学的要求。[1]
- Editorial fellowship programme: the association has run an editorial fellowship programme across its core journals since 2023, with 69 fellows serving across 26 journals in 2025, the present journal being among those covered.编辑学员计划： 美国心理学会自 2023 年起在核心刊物设编辑学员计划，2025 年有 69 名编辑学员在 26 种刊物服务，该刊为其覆盖刊物之一。[3]
- Acceptance and speed: the publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title. The library's previous notes of very hard acceptance and about three months had no official basis and have been deleted.录用与时效： 出版方不公布该刊录用率与审稿时长；库内原记录用率「很难」与审稿约三个月均无官方依据，已删除。[2]
- Standing in the field: the journal is regarded as one of the highest outlets for review articles in psychology, its evaluative reviews routinely serving as base citations for judgements about disciplinary directions and theoretical integration.学科地位： 该刊被视为心理学领域综述类文章的最高发表出口之一，其评估性综述常成为学科方向判断与理论整合的基础引用来源。[2]