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43 Law & Hum. Behav. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/lwhmbv43 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICAN American PSYCHOLOGICAL Psychology-Law AssoCIATION Society = W ASSOCIATION Society Law and Human Behavior © 2019 American Psychological Association 0147-7307/19/$12.00 2019, Vol. 43, No. 1, 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000322 EDITORIAL Taking the Next Steps: Promoting Open Science and Expanding Diversity in Law and Human Behavior Bradley D. McAuliff California State University, Northridge Lora M. Levett University of Florida Kyle C. Scherr Central Michigan University Welcome to Volume 43 of Law and Human Behavior. We have spent the last year working with the journal's Editorial Board, ad hoc reviewers, and authors to publish what we consider to be some of the field's best research. We truly appreciate this collective effort and look forward to serving as the Editorial Team for the next 5 years. We would like to take a moment in our inaugural issue to report on the current state of the journal and the direction we see it heading during our tenure. Vital Signs Law and Human Behavior continues to thrive as the premier outlet for multidisciplinary scholarship examining the interface between human behavior and the law, the criminal justice and legal systems, and the legal process. Under the stewardship of past Editor-in-Chief Margaret Bull Kovera, the journal's impact factor increased steadily for the past 3 years to an all-time high of 2.87 in 2017, according to Clarivate Analytics' Social Science Citation Index. The journal's 5-year impact factor, measuring the average number of times articles published between 2012 and 2016 were cited in 2017, also rose to 3.25. Congratulations to Dr. Kovera and Associate Editors Amy Bradfield Douglass, David DeMatteo, Bradley McAuliff, and Patricia Zapf, for passing along a healthy journal. Bradley D. McAuliff, Department of Psychology, California State Uni- versity, Northridge; Jennifer S. Hunt, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky; Lora M. Levett, Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida; Amanda D. Zelechoski, Department of Psychology, Valparaiso University; Kyle C. Scherr, Depart- ment of Psychology, Central Michigan University; David DeMatteo, De- partment of Psychology and Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bradley D. McAuliff, Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8255. E-mail: bradley.mcauliff@csun.edu Jennifer S. Hunt University of Kentucky Amanda D. Zelechoski Valparaiso University David DeMatteo Drexel University Submissions held constant at 247 articles in 2018, the exact number as 2017 and slightly higher than the 5-year average of 240 articles. The majority of submissions were nonclinical (80%). We rejected 80% of articles overall, just over half (53%) after peer- review and 27% as desk rejections because of either being a poor fit for the journal or inadequate in some fundamental way (usually because of methodology). Editorial lag, or the time between sub- mission and first decision, was down from 6 weeks last year to 31 days in 2018. This decrease, however, was due in part to an increase in desk rejections. The average editorial lag for peer- reviewed articles was just over 5 weeks. The impact of Law and Human Behavior, combined with a steady submission rate and a rejection rate that hovers at 80%, indicates the journal is flourishing and provides us with the fortu- nate opportunity to make an excellent journal even better. To that end, we would like to describe three initiatives we are working on and explain the changes you can expect as we begin to implement them in the journal. Specifically, these initiatives include: (1) promoting transparency, openness, and reproducibility in pub- lished research; (2) improving author-reviewer fit; and (3) expand- ing the diversity of journal content and decision makers. Promoting Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility in Published Research The past decade has proven to be a trying time for psychological science (Nelson, Simmons, & Simonsohn, 2018). Concerns re- garding the replicability of findings (Klein et al., 2014; Open Science Collaboration, 2012) and questionable research practices (John, Loewenstein, & Prelec, 2012; Simmons, Nelson, & Simon- sohn, 2011) unfortunately, even fraud have cast aspersions on the integrity of the scientific process. Though reasonable minds can and do differ on the perceived prevalence, magnitude, and sources of the problem, certainly we all can agree on the impor- tance of getting it right when it comes to the research we do and conclusions we draw. The need for good science is especially Law and Human Behavior

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