Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 由 Elsevier 出版，属中科院心理学大类（2025 升级版2区）。按 OpenAlex 近年发文统计，该刊主要发表 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions、Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 等主题的论文，这 3 个主题约占 41.6%，主导子领域为 Clinical Psychology。（根据 OpenAlex 主题统计与中科院分区数据生成）

The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is the official journal of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS).Contextual Behavioral Science is a systematic and pragmatic approach to the understanding of behavior, the solution of human problems, and the promotion of human growth and development. Contextual Behavioral Science uses functional principles and theories to analyze and modify action embedded in its historical and situational context. The goal is to predict and influence behavior, with precision, scope, and depth, across all behavioral domains and all levels of analysis, so as to help create a behavioral science that is more adequate to the challenge of the human condition.Contextual behavioral science is a strategic approach to the analysis of human behavior that proposes the need for a multi-level (e.g. social factors, neurological factors, behavioral factors) and multi-method (e.g., time series analyses, cross-sectional, experimental) exploration of contextual and manipulable variables relevant to the prediction and influence of human behavior.The journal considers papers relevant to a contextual behavioral approach including:Empirical studies (without topical restriction - e.g., clinical psychology, psychopathology, education, organizational psychology, etc.)Brief reports on preliminary, but still impactful findings (e.g., pilot studies, cross-sectional research on psychological flexibility processes)Reviews (e.g., scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses)Conceptual and philosophical papers on contextual behavioral sciencePractical innovations (descriptions of practical innovation applying contextual behavioral science)CommentariesRegistered reportsWe are particularly interested in:Papers that examine theories and interventions based in CBS (e.g., process-based therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy, relational frame theory, functional analytic psychotherapy, compassion-focused therapy, etc...) to novel research areas with rigorous methodologies. We currently are especially interested in increasing the number of published articles on basic CBS research and translational research.Papers bridging different approaches (e.g., connecting behavioral approaches with cognitive views; or neurocognitive psychology; or evolutionary science)Papers that challenge a contextual behavioral science approach from an informed perspectivePapers that are written from the perspective of and/or report data collected from diverse, underrepresented, and minoritized individuals.The journal welcomes papers written by researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians from different intellectual traditions. What is distinctive is not a narrowly defined theory or set of applied methods but whether the methodology, conceptualization, or strategy employed is relevant to a contextual behavioral approach.JCBS has been receiving an increasing number of submissions that compete for limited space for publication. A notable portion of submissions to JCBS are cross-sectional survey studies on psychological flexibility-related processes (e.g., validating these measures, testing their relation to mental health and related outcomes). In order to balance research on these topics with other important methodologies and research areas of CBS, we are unfortunately only able to accept especially innovative and rigorous research using cross-sectional survey designs, and typically only when submitted as a brief report.Special IssuesThe Journal welcomes suggestions for Special Issues. Proposals for a themed Special Issue should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Baljinder K. Sahdra at baljinder.sahdra@acu.edu.au, and should include suggested Executive, Advisory or Guest Editors, a proposed call-for-papers, 6-10 provisional authors and topics (specific titles or general areas), a proposed timeline for submission, peer-reviewing, revision and publication. All manuscripts in a special issue will be subject to the normal process of peer-review.

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研究方向（LetPub）：PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

主编 Baljinder Sahdra出版商官网

编委会国家分布：中国大陆 6 位（约 7%）；主要国家 美国 42、英国 8、中国 6、爱尔兰 4、中国香港 3（共 86 位编委标注了国家） 编委会 ↗出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

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3.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

影响因子（出版商公布）

3.1出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

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5.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

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5.5出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

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1.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

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1.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

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71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

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537OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

两年平均被引

3.78OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

自引率

9.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Gold OA 文章占比

34.47%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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71LetPub · 2026-09-13

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出版商

Elsevier

ISSN

2212-1447

电子版 ISSN

2212-1455

学会 / 主办单位

Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

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