Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science Call for Editor-in-Chief Nominations
Deadline: March 14, 2025
Nominations are now being invited for Editor(s)-in-Chief (EIC) of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), APS’s open access journal that serves as the home for discipline-wide dissemination and discussion of new developments in research practices, methods, and conduct. Founded in 2017, AMPPS publishes several types of empirical work alongside articles and tutorials on research practices and methods, broadly conceived. The editorial scope encompasses the breadth of psychological science, with editors, reviewers, and articles representing a balance among various disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. An explicit part of the journal’s mission is to encourage integration of methodological and analytical questions across multiple branches of psychological science. This type of cross-area integration is an innovative aspect of the journal and is fundamental to its identity, as is its mission of bringing methodological advances to all areas of the field.
The journal publishes several types of articles: Empirical Articles, which typically take the form of a Registered Report, peer reviewed prior to data collection and provisionally accepted to be published regardless of the results; Registered Replication Reports, large multi-lab replication efforts; General Articles, nonempirical articles that can cover any topic related to methods and practices, such as simulation studies and reanalyses of existing data; Tutorials, which provide hands-on, practical guidance on statistics and/or methods that are of broad interest to psychological scientists; and Commentaries, which are solicited by the editorial team and typically written in response to another article published in the journal.
The EIC must be an experienced, published scientist who has served in an editorial capacity and is able to assemble and lead an editorial team that covers methodologies and practices across psychological science as broadly as possible. This is an extraordinary opportunity for an EIC to lead an influential APS journal and a choice publication outlet for research methods and practices that guide the field.
Selection criteria: Nominees must have been an APS member within the last four years and a recognized leader in psychological science. Criteria to be considered for selecting the EIC include:
- Broad knowledge of the field of psychological science
- Familiarity with APS mission and APS journals
- Understanding and appreciation of methodological approaches and best practices adopted in different areas of psychology
- A commitment to transparency in research practices and methods
- Demonstrated research, writing, reviewing, and managerial skills
- Significant editorial experience
- Commitment to devoting time to editorial duties
- Interest in increasing authors from underrepresented subfields or regions in psychological science, particularly globally
- APS is seeking applications across the spectrum of psychological science and would consider co-editor (team) applicants
Starting date and editorial term: We are looking for an Editor to begin January 1, 2026, with a term lasting four years.
Nominations for AMPPS Editor-in-Chief are welcomed. Please provide a name and contact information for each nominee by March 14, 2025, to the search committee at [email protected], with the subject line “AMPPS EIC Nomination.” Additional material, including curricula vitae and brief statements of interest or support may also be sent, but at this point in the process a name and contact information are sufficient. Self-nominations are welcomed. APS does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and genetic information. All qualified and interested individuals are encouraged.
AMPPS Editor-in-Chief Search Committee, [email protected]
E.J. Wagenmakers (chair), University of Amsterdam
Pamela Davis-Kean, University of Michigan
Fred Oswald, Rice University
Mijke T. Rhemtulla, University of California, Davis
Daniel Simons, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Robert Gropp, APS CEO (Ex Officio)
