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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
Impact factor
1.6 (2022)
5 year impact factor
1.6 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
10 days
Downloads
147,081 (2023)

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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: Human Behavior and Public Health

    Guest Editors: Elizabeth Schieber, PhD (Elizabeth.Schieber@umassmed.edu); Jonathan Schulz, PhD, MPH, BCBA-D (jonathan.schulz@uvm.edu); Crystal Slanzi, PhD, BCBA-D (crystal.slanzi@temple.edu); and Sarah Weinsztok, PhD, BCBA (sweinsztok@ku.edu)


    Inquiries regarding possible submissions should be sent to Crystal Slanzi (crystal.slanzi@temple.edu)

    Behavior and Social Issues (BSI) invites papers for a special section on Human Behavior and Public Health targeted for the fall 2024 issue, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, such as SDG3 and SDG10.

    To receive consideration, manuscripts must be submitted no later than December 15, 2023

  • Call for Papers: Activism & Advocacy

    As a part of Behaviorists for Social Responsibility’s Matrix Project (see www.bfsr.org), Behavior and Social Issues is soliciting examples of activism and advocacy work, discussed from a behavior analytic or behavioral systems framework. Such examples may include efforts by behavior analysts, or descriptions of efforts with which behavior analysts are familiar, and which they can discuss from a rigorous behavior science perspective. Submissions of 300-2000 words will be considered for publication in a special, on-going section Activism and Advocacy Notes section. (Longer submissions will be reviewed as regular articles for the journal.) Activism and Advocacy Notes will receive expedited review.

  • Call for Papers: Forum on Diversity and Inclusion in Behavior Analysis

    The emergence in public visibility and vigorous debate of anti-inclusion actions—including but not limited to sexual harassment, sexism, racism, homophobia, prejudice against ethnic and religious minorities, discrimination against differently abled, anti-immigration sentiments—has made it imperative that behavior analysis examine its own diversity-related practices and interventions. In fact, as the recent ABAI statement on this topic indicates, this is an issue that has not escaped our own discipline and cries out for serious examination – and preferably self-examination. Therefore, in this spirit, BSI announces the inauguration of a special, continuing section of the journal titled “Forum on Diversity and Inclusion in Behavior Analysis”.

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Electronic ISSN
2376-6786
Print ISSN
1064-9506
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