About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Anuario de Psicología/The UB Journal of Psychology, as a journal of General Psychology indexed in Racó, RCUB, Scopus, Latindex, Inrex, FECYT, CARHUS +, CIRC, DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, Emergence Citation Index, Journal Citation Report Emergent Index, MIAR, SJR. It is a generalist journal in the field of psychology, so articles from different psychological subject areas are published. The magazine is aimed at researchers and professionals in any field of psychology.

When writing manuscripts, it is advisable to follow the style criteria of the University of Barcelona (https://www.ub.edu/cub/criteris.php).

We accept the following types of manuscripts:

1. Original research articles: this category includes articles presenting the background, the objectives and hypotheses (when necessary), and the design, procedure and results of an empirical study developed in accordance to the existing criteria of the scientific community. The manuscript must present a standard organization with the following sections: introduction, method, results, discussion, acknowledgments (when necessary), references, tables, and figure headers. The length of the article must not exceed 8000 words (all elements in the text included).

2. Theoretical reports: articles that support thesis or approaches including those offering a critical, original and constructive view on relevant issues in psychology. Topics may be of theoretical, epistemological or methodological content and may express an academic or professional perspective. These articles must not exceed 8000 words. Also, the abstract must explicitly and clearly express the aim of the article and the assumptions proposed.

3. Thematic reviews: articles that present the state of the art in a particular field of research or a specific topic that is relevant and up-to-date for the scientific psychologist, the professional psychologist or both. Manuscripts within this category must offer warranty on the quality and validity of the sources used and the appropriateness of the topics selected. The extension of thematic reviews must not exceed 8000 words in length.

Anuario de Psicología/The UB Journal of Psychology is also interested in publishing conferences abstracts focused on psychology and that have been previously peer reviewed.

Peer Review Process

The evaluation of the original articles is anonymous through a pair-review process. The reviewers are external to the journal's editorial and advisory board and follow a double-blind review process.

Once the evaluation is received, this will be immediately sent to the authors, along with their comments and changes proposed, which must be included in the manuscript and sent again to the Editorial Team, along with a letter directed to reviewers and explaining all the changes made.

When the Editor makes sure the inclusion og the changes and values the quality of the article makes the decision of accepting or refusing. In case of acceptance, the authors will work side-to-side with the Editorial Team improving the form and style of the manuscript prior the layout.

The whole process from the submission to the editorial decision will take between 4 and 6 months. The acceptance of an article does not assure its publication in the following issue.

Open Access Policy

All issues will be available open-access. Authors transfer authorship rights to the magazine. The University of Barcelona is the owner of the copyright of the content published in the magazine. Authors can deposit a copy of the articles in institutional and/or thematic repositories and the journal does not charge for publishing articles.

Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices

The University of Barcelona promotes the open access publication of digital journals and endeavours to guarantee quality and conscientiousness in the transfer of scientific knowledge. The University is committed to ensuring that the articles it publishes and the publishing process itself observe the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is therefore essential that all of the stakeholders in this process—journal editors, reviewers, technical editors and authors—know and act according to the Code.

Journal editors should

  • ensure that the decision to publish is not dependent on the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or political persuasion; 
  • publish regular updates on the responsibilities of authors, submission requirements, the arbitration system used to select the articles and the evaluation criteria to be applied by reviewers; 
  • publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed and not make use of any article received for UB-specific research assignments without the author’s consent; 
  • guarantee confidentiality during the review process, meaning (a) the anonymity of reviewers and authors and the confidentiality of the content of the articles, the reports submitted by reviewers and any other type of correspondence with or between the editorial, consultant and editorial or consulting board and (b) confidentiality in the correspondence between the author and the journal committees or reviewers when the author wishes to clarify, change or complain about some aspect of the article; 
  • make certain that the integrity of articles already published is respected; 
  • act swiftly to eliminate from the journal or refuse to publish any article that has been found to plagiarise information from other sources.

Authors should

  • understand that they are responsible for all submitted content; 
  • notify the journal editors of any errors in their published articles so that the appropriate corrections can be made; 
  • guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe on the rights of third-party authors and, when there are co-authors, guarantee that the consent of all the authors is obtained before the article goes to press. 

Reviewers and technical editors should

  • apply revisions that are objective, informed, critical, constructive and unbiased, where acceptance or rejection is based only on the work’s relevance, originality, interest to the public in question and compliance with the style and content regulations in the evaluation criteria; 
  • meet deadlines when this is possible and promptly inform the journal editor when it is not; 
  • avoid sharing, spreading or reproducing any information from articles still under review without permission from the corresponding journal editors or authors. 

Journal History

Anuario de Psicología/The UB Journal of Psychology is a journal founded on 1969 by Dr. Miguel Siguan in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. With more than 40 years of history and 120 published issues collected in 42 volumes, it is one pioneering journal that played a key-role through the establishment and development of Psychology as a science in our country.
On 2011 Anuario de Psicología started a new phase renewing its management and editorial team. Our will is to keep up with its inclusive function, promoting a general and diversifying activity.