title: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
text: # Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  
  The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. It was established in 1975 as an independent section of the Journal of Experimental Psychology and covers research in experimental psychology.
  
  The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. The TOP Guidelines provide structure to research planning and reporting and aim to make research more transparent, accessible, and reproducible.
  
  The journal may include articles on the following topics:
  
  * social processes
  * developmental processes
  * psychopathology
  * neuroscience
  * computational modeling
  
  The current editor-in-chief is Nelson Cowan (University of Missouri). His predecessor was Isabel Gauthier (Vanderbilt University).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.913.
  
  