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Behavior and Social Issues focuses on the science of behavior analysis and cultural systems analysis

  • An official journal of the Association for Behavior Analysis International
  • Welcomes work that applies a natural science of behavior to constructing cultures of social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability.
  • Encourages submissions from both senior and emerging scholars, including students.
  • Publishes theoretical and conceptual analyses, research articles, brief reports, dialogues, and research reviews.
  • Predecessor title was Behavior Analysis and Social Action

Editor-in-Chief
  • Traci M. Cihon

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
1.6 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
1.5 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
11 days
Downloads
154.8k (2024)

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Journal updates

  • Guidance on Use of LLMs (Large Language Models)

    Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. Use of an LLM should be properly documented in the Methods section (and if a Methods section is not available, in a suitable alternative part) of the manuscript. The best guidance for use of a LLM or AI is to document any contributions to your work in an upfront manner. 

  • Call for Papers: Interprofessional Collaboration

    Guest Editors: Holly Brown (hbrown@sjfc.edu); Louis Busch (Louis.Busch@camh.ca); Kim Crosland (crosland@usf.edu); Deborah Napolitano (dnapolit@daemen.edu); Tziporah Rosenberg (Tziporah_Rosenberg@urmc.rochester.edu): Adrienne Jennings (ajenning@daemen.edu) 

    Inquiries regarding possible submissions should be sent to Deborah Napolitano (dnapolit@daemen.edu)

    Behavior and Social Issues (BSI) invites papers for a special section on Interprofessional Collaboration targeted for the Fall 2025 issue.

    Papers may be submitted via the BSI portal no later than March 15, 2025 (https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/bsis/default2.aspx). Be sure to indicate the submission is for consideration in the special section on Interprofessional Collaboration.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
2376-6786
Print ISSN
1064-9506
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