About the Journal

Field Editor-In-Chief: Dan Lloyd, Trinity College, USA
Abbreviation: Front. Psychology
NLM ID: Coming Soon
Indexed in: Google Scholar, PubMed and PsycInfo coming soon

The history of psychology – from its birth in philosophy to its contemporary blend into neuroscience – has been marked by theoretical upheavals, moments where the direction of the field was reversed, entrenched paradigms that were overthrown, and exciting new vistas that opened. Although these upheavals have often been motivated by philosophical considerations, their authors have frequently been scientists.

The specialty section of Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology offers a platform for critical perspectives on current trends – and ruts – in the sciences of mind. Authors are encouraged to reflect broadly on psychology, take intellectual risks, and indulge in speculation, thought experiments, and conjecture. Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, but empirical researchers are especially encouraged to contribute to this interdisciplinary open-access forum. Critiques, reviews, syntheses, and reasoned manifestos might come from any field in psychology, or from philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, or phenomenology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary scope and audience of this specialty section, contributions that connect multiple disciplines, written for an audience encompassing the “two cultures” of science and the (scientifically well-informed) humanities are welcome.

Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology welcomes the following tier 1 article types: original research articles, clinical case studies, review articles, hypothesis and theory articles, methods articles, commentaries, perspective articles, opinion articles, book reviews and conference proceedings.

All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the specialty section.

All articles published in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology will be subjected to the Frontiers evaluation system after online publication. Authors of the original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Psychology to write a prestigious Frontiers focused review – a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 3-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery and aim to address the wider audience across all of psychology.

Frontiers’ philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of mankind. It is enabled by society and should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination. That is why Frontiers provides open and free access to all of its publications. For more information on the open access movement click here.

Under the Frontiers terms and conditions you retain the copyright of your work. This means that you may reproduce copies of your articles in any way you choose and freely disseminate these as reprints, as long as the original publication is fully cited. For instance, your published article can be posted on your personal or institutional homepage, e-mailed to friends and colleagues, printed, archived in a collection, distributed on CD-ROM, quoted in the press, translated and furthermore sent to as many people and as often as you wish.

Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, due to true collaborative interactions between authors and the highest quality reviewers. Frontiers recognizes the immense importance of the potential impact of published research on future research and society and, hence, does not support superficial review, light review or no review publishing models. Research knowledge must be validated by peers before entering the stream of knowledge that will eventually reach the public and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers supports the highest quality reviews and operates according to the novel Frontiers academic model that applies a rigorous but unbiased Frontiers review system, a separated, online, automated and global Frontiers evaluation system and Frontiers distillation system, as well as the Frontiers recognition system to reward the most outstanding research selected by the entire community.