Overview
Psychological Injury and Law publishes articles on the intersection of psychological injuries and court. It is a civil forensic journal that seeks submissions that are topical, timely, and empirically based for researchers, practitioners, and court. It publishes on topics such as PTSD, chronic pain, and mild traumatic brain injury that lead to court action, such as after a motor vehicle accident, work injury, or social security or military veteran disability claims.
Much of the publishing content of the journal is related to assessment and validity testing, for example, performance validity tests (PVTs) and symptom validity tests (SVTs), given that these diagnoses and conditions are contentious. The articles help the field navigate the adversarial divide in the field and deal with legal decisions that inform scientifically based practice and court testimony/reports (e.g., the Daubert trilogy).
Much of the publishing content of the journal is related to assessment and validity testing, for example, performance validity tests (PVTs) and symptom validity tests (SVTs), given that these diagnoses and conditions are contentious. The articles help the field navigate the adversarial divide in the field and deal with legal decisions that inform scientifically based practice and court testimony/reports (e.g., the Daubert trilogy).
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Gerald Young
- Impact factor
- 3.1 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 2.6 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 3 days
- Downloads
- 131,146 (2023)
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Anonymity: A Note for Authors of Submitted Manuscripts
The journal conducts double-blind peer review. That is, author identities are unknown to reviewers and reviewer identities are unknown to authors. In addition, please note authors cannot assume that the section head is the handling editor/action editor for a submission. For a variety of reasons, the handling editor/action editor may likely be other than the named section editors.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1938-9728
- Print ISSN
- 1938-971X
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PsycINFO
- Psyndex
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information
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