Swiss Psychology Open: the official journal of the Swiss Psychological Society (original) (raw)

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The Swiss Psychological Society goes Open Access
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About this journal

Swiss Psychology Open (SPO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal for research in psychology. It accepts submissions from all fields of psychology. Its intention is to serve as a forum for the scientific discussion of all areas of psychology and their applications. One of its most central concerns is the mediating function between different fields of psychology, research and applications, and in culturally different areas. SPO was initially founded by and represents the official journal of the Swiss Psychological Society (SPS). The goal of SPS is to advance and support best practice in psychological science and teaching.

SPO publishes research articles, meta-analyses, literature reviews, methods papers, opinion papers, commentaries and registered reports. All articles are made openly available as soon as they are ready to guarantee timely communication. Authors of articles published in SPO remain the copyright holders of their work.

Announcements

Swiss Psychology Open is inviting researchers to submit special issue proposals to our multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Swiss Psychology Open is committed to publishing high-quality research that is innovative and relevant to a broad audience. Our editorial team will be working closely with you to ensure the success of your special issue and can assist you with identifying potential reviewers. We currently welcome special issues that cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to social psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology.
Each special issue should feature between 6 to 12 articles. Although theoretical contributions are allowed, the majority of all contributions to each special issue should be of empirical nature. The publication fee for accepted articles is CHF 500.-, which can be waived if authors do not have funding for open access fees.
We encourage postdocs and early career researchers to submit special issue proposals as a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience working as an editor.
You can find more information on our Special Issues page, but if you are interested in submitting a special issue, have any questions or other inquiries, please contact our editorial board at Sascha.Zuber@unige.ch.
Best regards,
The Editors of Swiss Psychology Open

Standard review is the typical track in which authors submit a complete manuscript for evaluation. Authors can expect the first round review via this track to take ~4-6 weeks.
Scheduled review (based on the concept introduced in Chambers & Tzavella, 2020) aims to significantly accelerate this process by performing key tasks in parallel. Rather than submitting a full manuscript, authors initially submit a one-page, template-based “snapshot” which is evaluated by an editor. If deemed suitable, the editor then sends the snapshot to potential reviewers and arranges for the review process to take place during a narrow range of dates at least 6 weeks in the future, with the submission date nominated by the authors. During the intervening time the authors then prepare the full manuscript. Although this process can only feasibly expedite the first round review (and not the re-review of a revised submission), the overall time-saving is substantial because the first round of assessment is usually the most onerous.
Authors intending to submit to the scheduled review track must do so using the 1-page snapshot template available here. Please submit your 1-page snapshot via email to our EiC, Nicolas Rothen, at nicolas.rothen@fernuni.ch. Submissions that do not use this template will not be considered.
The Standard and Scheduled review tracks are available for both Regular articles and Registered Reports submissions.