Journal of Clinical Psychology Research (JCPR) is an official journal of the Association of Clinical Psychology Research. The JCPR publishes original empirical research articles, review articles, meta-analysis research, and case reports from various areas of psychology, including, but not limited to, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and psychometrics.
JCPR welcomes all empirical and theoretical work related to psychological problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and personality disorders during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as well as studies on the effectiveness of various approaches to therapy. Our main objective is to provide innovative, qualified, and original research in the area of clinical psychology and to contribute to the scientific development of this area.
Publication Process
All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Clinical Psychology Research (JCPR) are first reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. Approximately 40% of the reviewed manuscripts are rejected without proceeding to a further peer-review evaluation, as they are considered not to be related to the scope of the journal or do not have the quality to be published. For all other manuscripts, an Editor (or Associate Editor) is assigned from the Editorial Board according to their subject. Manuscripts decided to proceed to peer review are sent to at least two reviewers.
This journal follows a DOUBLE-BLIND procedure. That is, the author(s) of the manuscript do not know to which reviewers the manuscript is sent, and the reviewers assigned to the manuscript do not know which author(s) the manuscript belongs to. The authors, therefore, are requested not to share any self-identifying information or citations in the text (please make sure you remove personal information on your Word document and upload the title page as a separate file to the Additional Files section.
The Editor assigned to the manuscript decides to accept, reject or revise it based on the suggestions or comments from the reviewers. Please note that a decision of revision does not imply or guarantee that the revised manuscript will be accepted. Revised articles are reviewed by the Editor (if necessary, they will be forwarded to the Reviewers again) and a decision of acceptance, rejection, or revision/resubmit is made.
In this journal, the average time from submission to first decision is 60 days and the average time from submission to acceptance is 120 days. Please click for detailed information on journal metrics.
Online Manuscript Submission
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Format and Language
Title Page
Extended English Abstract
Abstracts and Keywords
Main Text
References
Tables, Figure Captions, and Figures
Appendices
Peer Review Policy
Compliance with Ethical Standards
The ethical rules and principles include the following:
Reviewers or Editors are obliged to reject the article if they suspect that these ethical rules are not followed and withdraw the article if the article has been published. Withdrawal of the article means that the article continues to appear online but is flagged as being withdrawn for ethical reasons.
All articles published in the JCPR can be cited only by using appropriate referencing. Individuals or organizations that cite and publish erroneous information in the content of the quoted articles are responsible before the law.
Plagiarism Policy
iThenticate - Plagiarism Detection Software is used by the JCPR to detect plagiarism in scientific studies. The software has comprehensive academic content directly related to the evaluation of academic publications. Each document uploaded to iThenticate is compared with documents in a large database. In this database, there are more than 90.000 important newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and books, as well as more than 17 billion web pages and archives. iThenticate controls databases with over 30 million content from more than 70,000 scientific journals and over 86 million articles from more than 150 publishers. Publisher partners include major publishers such as CrossRef, Gale, Emerald, ABC-CLIO, SAGE Reference, Oxford University Press, IEEE, Elsevier, Nature Publishing, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, PubMed, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and EBSCOhost. Authors who submit their work to the JCPR are deemed to have declared that they have not committed ethical violations. The works of authors found to have plagiarized through the iThenticate program are not included in our journal. The report on this issue is sent to the author(s) and (if deemed necessary) to the relevant institutions and organizations.
Open Access Policy
The JCPR is an open-access journal. In this context, JCPR became a party to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). According to the BOAI, Open Access means “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.” The detailed information can be found via this link.
Copyright Transfer Policy
Copyright Transfer is intended to ensure that information is protected and distributed under copyright law. The copyright for printed or electronic copies of the articles accepted to be published in the JCPR is transferred to the Association of Clinical Psychology Research. After the acceptance of the manuscript, "the JCPR Copyright Transfer Form" must be filled in and signed on behalf of all authors by the corresponding author of the manuscript, and sent to editor@klinikpsikoloji.org. Click to download the JCPR Copyright Transfer Form.
Publication Charge Policy
This journal does not charge any "submission or processing fee" from the authors for manuscripts submitted or accepted. JCPR does not also make a payment to authors for accepted or published articles. In addition, the articles accepted for publication are assigned DOI by the JCPR, with charging no fee.
Post-Acceptance Process
Upon acceptance, the following steps will take place respectively: (1) DOI assignment; (2) Turkish and English language editing; (3) Adaptation of the manuscript to journal format and typesetting; (4) Proofreading and (5) Publishing online under "Articles in Press."
Copyright Transfer
The copyright for printed or electronic copies of the articles accepted for publication is transferred to the Association of Clinical Psychology Research. After the acceptance of the manuscript, the "JCPR Copyright Transfer Form" must be signed by the corresponding author and uploaded to the online submission system (See Copyright Transfer Policy).
Language Editing
The text must be written in a good and understandable language for Editors and Reviewers to accurately evaluate your work. If you have written your article in English, you can seek help from a native English speaker/colleague or use professional English Language Proofreading services (Please note that the use of a language editing service is not a requirement for publication in this journal).
After your article is accepted for publication, it will be reviewed by the JCPR’s Language Editors in terms of clarity, grammar, and spelling and necessary corrections will be made, which is followed by typesetting.
Proof Reading
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables, figure captions, and figures. Substantial changes in content (e.g., new results, corrected values, title, and authorship) are not allowed without the approval of the Editor. The time provided to the author(s) for proofreading is 7 days.
Online First
Accepted articles will be published online (without a volume and issue) after receipt of the corrected proofs, with an assigned DOI. Articles published online are placed in the queue for publication.
This journal does not charge any “submission or processing fee” from the authors for manuscripts submitted or accepted. JCPR does not also make a payment to authors for accepted or published articles. In addition, for the articles accepted for publication, a DOI is assigned, with charging no fee.