AIMS AND SCOPE
The purpose of the Journal for Person-Oriented Research (JPOR) is to publish person-oriented research in psychological science.
“Person-oriented research” refers to theoretical, methodological, and empirical research that is guided by a research paradigm in which the individual is at focus and seen as a functioning totality.
This paradigm implies that theories and findings should be interpretable at the individual level and that patterns of individuals´ characteristics are of key interest. Hence, a standard variable-oriented approach, with the variable as the basic conceptual and analytic unit, and analyzing data using group statistics (e.g. correlational analysis) falls normally outside the journal´s scope.
JPOR emphasizes the standard scientific criteria of objectivity and replicability of research findings. Hence, many qualitative research approaches also fall outside the journal´s scope.
Theoretical and methodological, as well as empirical papers are of interest to the journal.
All articles published in JPOR are open access, which means they are freely and universally accessible online, and permanently archived.
Open access publication benefits the scientific community by making results of research immediately and freely available to all.
Advertisement policy: the JPOR does not contain ads.
The articles in the JPOR are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
JPOR is indexed in CrossRef, DOAJ, Scopus and PubMed
There are no article-submission or article-processing charges. The JPOR is entirely financed by grants from the Lundh Research Foundation.
A special feature of JPOR is that it offers the editors and reviewers the possibility to contribute a very brief commentary to the article. Such a contribution should not exceed 300 words and it should take as its starting point a single aspect of the article. For instance, from this starting point a finding in the article is related to other findings or it is pointed to further lines of inquiry that the article suggests.
The commentary should as far as possible be written in a friendly and constructive way, being factual and avoiding value-laden words. A reviewer providing a commentary cannot be anonymous. The commentary will be given its own title and, hence, can be used as a reference.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Lars R. Bergman – Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden
lrb@psychology.su.se
Lars-Gunnar Lundh – Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
lgl@person-research.org
Peter C. M. Molenaar – Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
subject-specific@person-research.org
Julia Moeller – Department for Education, University of Leipzig, Germany
Evelien Snippe - University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Alexander von Eye – Michigan State University, USA
Wolfgang Wiedermann – University of Missouri, USA
The role of journal editors in reviewing and approving material that is published
The editors-in-chief collaborate to ensure that the acting editor has no conflict of interests. All editors are required to declare any interests — financial or otherwise — that might influence, or be perceived to influence, their editorial practices. The acting editor is responsible to manage the peer review. Single blind peer review with at least two reviewers is typically used to raise the quality of published content; double-blind peer review, however, is also an option if the author(s) prefer this. The acting editors consider all the returned reviews before making an overall decision. The editors-in-chief make the final decision for each manuscript. The Editorial Office sends a decision email to the author(s) including any relevant reviewer comments.