Psychological Science in the Public Interest

Psychological Science in the Public Interest is a journal of comprehensive reviews on topics of direct public concern, founded in 2000 by the Association for Psychological Science and published by SAGE, and it is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus and PubMed with a 2025 impact factor of 17.6Psychological Science in the Public Interest 是发表公众关切议题综合性综述的期刊，2000 年由美国心理科学协会创办，由 SAGE 出版，被社会科学引文索引、Scopus 与 PubMed 收录，2025 年影响因子为 17.6。

Scope

• Each issue carries a single comprehensive review of a topic of direct relevance to the public每期就一个与公众直接相关的议题发表一篇综合性综述。
• Reports are written by blue-ribbon teams of experts who assess the state of the science from several perspectives报告由多学科专家组成的权威团队撰写，从多个视角评估该议题的科学现状。
• Past reports examined the validity of projective tests and ways to keep the ageing brain sharp过往报告曾检验投射测验的效度，也探讨过保持老年大脑敏锐的方法。
• Clinical psychology and its evidence base have been recurring subjects临床心理学及其证据基础是反复出现的主题。
• Findings are written for a wide audience and are frequently reported by the general media结论面向广泛读者撰写，常被大众媒体转载报道。

History

• It was launched in 2000 by the Association for Psychological Science, then still named the American Psychological Society, as the society's third journal该刊 2000 年由美国心理科学协会创办，当时该协会仍名为 American Psychological Society，是其第三本期刊。^[1]
• The journal is owned by the society and distributed by SAGE该刊归协会所有，由 SAGE 负责出版发行。
• It appears three times a year, and reports are often made freely available on the society's website该刊每年出版三期，报告常在协会官网免费公开。
• Leadership of the journal changed hands in 2025, when a new editor-in-chief took over from Nora Newcombe of Temple University该刊主编于 2025 年交接，新主编接替了天普大学的 Nora Newcombe。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Ulf-Dietrich Reips, a professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany who works on Internet-based research methods and open science现任主编为德国康斯坦茨大学的 Ulf-Dietrich Reips 教授，研究方向为基于互联网的研究方法与开放科学。
• He took office on 1 July 2025他于 2025 年 7 月 1 日就任。
• An advisory board of experts from several countries guides the commissioning of reports, each running to about 35 to 45 published pages由多国专家组成的顾问委员会指导选题约稿，每篇报告篇幅约 35 至 45 个出版页。
• All articles are commissioned by the editors, and unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted所有文章均由编辑部约稿，不接受自由投稿。