the journal | in the beginning | around the world | journal growth | expanding our services | the internet | our team | helping others | the editor | goals achieved | the future
 The journal…
 Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal has weathered its infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.
The year 2002 was an important milestone for the journal; The anniversary of our 30th year of publication.
Now in its prime, the journal looks forward with enthusiasm to continued professional maturity and service to its readership and discipline.
The journal's core purpose is scientific communication in the disciplines of Social Psychology, Developmental and Personality Psychology, which have continued to emerge strongly over the last 36 years. Social Behavior and Personality serves and is served by many thousands of authors, reviewers and subscribers. The journal is proud of the fairness and timeliness of its review process, and is noted for its consideration toward all prospective authors. If accepted and scheduled for publication, manuscripts are published promptly, normally within 9 months.
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In the beginning…
In 1973 the journal was born, and in an Editorial Introduction to Volume 1 Number 1, Editor Bob Stewart wrote, “Inasmuch as key empirical work and useful theoretical formulations know no national boundaries this international journal aims to work against geographic parochialism in behavioral science”.
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Around the world…
The spread of nations reached by our journal shows a wide spread of authorship and readership. About 39% of the authors are from North America, 37% from Europe, 9% from Asia, 8% from the Middle East, and 7% from the rest of the world. This shows that we are genuinely an international journal. Interestingly, English is now not the primary language for the majority of our authors, although our publication appears in English.
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Journal growth…
In 1973 no one could have imagined the internet as we now know it, and how much this would improve the ease of scholarly communication. This is truly a technology “made in Heaven” for many international scholars. All of our university library subscribers have now arranged electronic access availability for their students and faculty. Full text internet access is available to current and back issues via the journal's web page www.sbp-journal.com, as well as www.ingenta.com. All articles published in our journal are all linked to the world's search engines, as well as to abstracting and indexing networks. Many of the readers of individual articles are referred by the search engines to the web site, where they are able to download particular papers of interest.
Over the past few years we have implemented a “Worldwide Intranet” which has linked our authors, reviewers and editors worldwide. The journal has developed an online submission process, with the opportunity for authors and reviewers to participate in an online discussion forum for each article currently being reviewed by us.
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Expanding our services…
At the beginning of 2009, our journal joined the program of Ingenta Connect, one of the world’s pre-eminent companies for providing “state of the art” e-publishing solutions for scholarly journals. Full text articles for the journal now appear on www.ingenta.com, in addition to our own website. Joining Ingenta Connect shows our total commitment to best practice in the publishing and dissemination of research.
During the past 37 years, the journal has grown exponentially, and we have published no less than 1,644 articles spanning 140 issues. In 1973 the journal began by publishing 2 issues per year, gradually increasing to four issues in 1994, to six issues in 1999, before leaping to eight issues in 2001, and ten issues in 2005.
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The internet…
The online journal has exceeded expectations. On average we see hits to the website exceeding 300,000 per month, this has grown from an average of 20,000 in 2002, and the numbers are still growing.
Our e-newsletter is now requested and received by more than 3,000 researchers around the world. Our online community has grown to over 9,000 site members who have signed up to our website.
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Our team…
Our success over this time is due to the support of many thousands of people worldwide; our authors, our reviewers and our consulting editors. Increasingly with the size and complexity of the editing operation, the quality of people in the management group is vital. It is a real pleasure to acknowledge the excellent work of the members of the current team. These are:
Editor Dr Bob Stewart
Operations Coordinator Alex Cheyne
IT Advisor Suzi Brown
Publications Officer Sarah Jones
Copy Editors and Support Staff Dorothy Pilkington, Katharine Samuel, Maureen Seth, Melissa Mepham, Lesley Aitken, Julia Tanner, and Timothy Johansen
Typesetter Mrs Philippa Proctor
Printers K&M Print of Palmerston North, New Zealand
Web developers Izyn Technologies Ltd, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Helping others…
The journal is a partner with World Vision, and helps sponsor some of the world's poorest children. The human potential and promise of young children is the theme on the journal's web page.
In 2006 SBP Journal was invited to participate and accepted the invitation to be involved in the HINARI Project to help developing countries. In 2010 SBP Journal has expanded it's participation in the HINARI Project.
 “HINARI is an international initiative to provide free, or low-cost, access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences, to public institutions in developing countries. It aims to improve public health by facilitating the flow of health information, using the Internet. The core elements of the project are content, Internet connectivity and capacity building.”
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The editor…
Over the years Dr Bob Stewart has served as editor part time while holding academic positions in different parts of the world, New Zealand, Canada and Fiji. Some time after being granted a Personal professorship in Human Development at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, he returned in 1989 to native New Zealand, as a full time Editor of the journal.
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Goals achieved…
In 1973 we “envisaged that these pages will see the publication of superior papers on all aspects of Social Psychology, Developmental and Personality Psychology, of relevance to a wide range of disciplines: Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, Industrial and Community Psychology, Cultural Anthropology and Management Science”.
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The future…
We have seen these expectations fulfilled over the past 37 years, and we look forward with enthusiasm to continued service from us on the journal team for many more years!
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