Overview

We are Author Friendly

Infant and Child Development: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood is an “author friendly” journal. We work within a family of high impact journals at Wiley that want to find a home for your paper as quickly and painlessly as possible. This is called Wiley’s Developmental Science Publishing Network.


We value good scientific practice

Science should be cumulative. If your research is good, your methods are sound and your conclusions are evidence based, we want to help you share them. We do not reject good scientific articles on the basis of novelty. In line with this, there is no limit on the size of our journal. We do not set ourselves a target rejection rate.


We save time for authors and peer reviewers

There is a huge amount of redundancy in the peer review system and we want that to stop. Many authors go through at least one or two different journals before they find a home for their article. Where available, we will recycle the previous reviews of your manuscript by other Wiley journals (especially those rejecting on the basis of novelty, significance, not being ground breaking and, sometimes, scope reasons) in order to reduce time to acceptance for you and the burden of multiple reviews on peer reviewers.

The journals participating in Wiley’s Developmental Science Publishing Network currently are Child Development, Developmental Science, Social Development, Infancy, Mind, Brain and Education, Dyslexia, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Child & Family Social Work, Child: Care, Health and Development, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Psychology in the Schools, Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, Children & Society, Infant Mental Health Journal.


We are broad and welcome different opinions and methods

You’re also unlikely to be rejected from our journal because of scope. We cover the full spectrum of development from prenatal to emerging adulthood. We are intentionally very broad. We publish original research articles, reviews, and Registered Reports. We aim to publish the best contemporary research in developmental science through empirical, theoretical and methodological articles addressing psychological development from the prenatal period to young adults (mid 20s). The journal is a premier outlet for developmental research that prioritizes transparent and open science, prioritizing the rigour of conceptualization and design of studies over the specific nature of the results. We welcome all research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods) and all forms of scholarly contributions (empirical, conceptual, methodological). With a readership including researchers in developmental psychology, but also child practitioners in health and education, the journal publishes research addressing typical and atypical development across the range of human behaviour and experience, including any aspects of socio-emotional, cognitive/language, or biological development. We welcome replication studies and confirmatory work.


We aspire to be high impact and fully Open

Impact means many things and can’t be measured by citations in a two year window. Impact happens in terms of changes to policy, changes to parent and teacher behaviours, social media attention, and level and diversity of readership, as well as citations.

We recognise the value of openness in research and so we ask for data availability statements, encourage open badges, and are keen to be a first adopter of further open practices. We are currently reviewing our policies to align with the Level 1 TOP guidelines.

We aspire to transition to fully open access. In the meantime, we will publish under a hybrid model: both subscription and open access. When possible, we will help authors to publish open access by informing them at acceptance stage whether they have access to funds through a Wiley transitional deal.

 

 

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