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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Aims and Scope
Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PTAD) is the official open access journal of the European Association of Psychological Assessment. PTAD is the first open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers which present the adaptation of tests to specific (e.g., cultural) needs, test translations, or the development of existing measures. Moreover, the focus will be on the empirical testing of the psychometric quality of these measures. The journal provides a paper template, and registered reports are strongly encouraged. Manuscripts that go into the review process will be subject to double-blind peer review and a plagiarism check via Crossref Similarity Check.
Psychological Test Adaptation and Development is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All content is freely available online upon publication on Hogrefe eContent, without any charges for individual or institutional users. All articles are published with a Creative Commons license (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND).
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Open Access for UK authors publishing in APA PsycArticles
Hogrefe is participating in the open access publishing pilot for the APA PsycArticles database in 2023-2026 – this includes eligible articles accepted in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development.
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In light of various inquiries we’ve received from authors, we’d like to clarify our open data policy. The full policy reads as follows:
PTAD encourages authors to make the raw data and the code (e.g., R, Stata, or SPSS code with detailed explanations allowing it to be reviewed) or the converted score data underlying the main findings reported in the article available to the public (open data). Exceptions may be made (e.g., for reasons of data security or confidentiality) provided the reasons are set out during submission of the manuscript. It is recommended that authors place any open data and code in a repository and provide the URL(s) during manuscript submission in Editorial Manager. With the acceptance of a manuscript a permanent URL or DOI pointing to a file(s) located in a public repository should be provided. Preferred repositories for PTAD are PsychArchives (run by a public openscience institute for psychology; see the detailed instructions) and OSF. Other repositories may also be suitable as long as DOIs or accession numbers are provided and the data are at least as open as CC/BY. The Registry of Research Date Repositories provides a list of repositories.
Before submitting your work, please read the detailed Instructions to authors and other useful links in this section, such as the description of how papers should be structured and why. The articles submitted to PTAD are routinely screened for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check.
In order to cover the costs of publishing the journal, including those of manuscript submission and peer review management, journal production, online hosting and archiving, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, as well as online distribution and data feeds to libraries, discovery services, content aggregators, and other information services, an article publication charge (APC) must be paid. Price details, including available discounts, are provided in the Open access order form. In addition, as detailed in the Waiver policy and application, Hogrefe Publishing is currently offering a generous waiver program for eligible authors. Eligible papers shall include papers by authors who do not have access to publication fee grants or funding, papers by authors who are not employed or funded by commercial organizations, and other papers as may from time to time be agreed by Hogrefe.
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Editing and translation services
Hogrefe has negotiated a 20% discount for authors who wish to have their manuscript professionally edited or translated into English by the experts at Enago before submission.
Please note that the service is independent of Hogrefe and use of it has no bearing on acceptance decisions made by individual journals.
“Advancing Psychological Assessments With Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence”
Deadline for submission of full papers is April 30, 2025
PTAD wants to be an outlet for studies adapting existing assessment tools to specific populations, languages, cultures, age groups, etc. We hereby launch an open call for submitting special issue proposals to address the goal of a broader geographical representation.
Please submit any ideas for topics that would help integrate a more diverse authorship in addition to being of interest to the assessment community to the editorial team of PTAD at eapa.ptad@gmail.com.
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Matthias Ziegler and Kay Brauer
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Psychological Test Adaptation and Development – A New Beginning
Matthias Ziegler
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Psychological Test Adaptation and Development – How Papers Are Structured and Why
Matthias Ziegler
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Editor-in-Chief
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27
06108 Halle (Saale)Rebekka Sendatzki
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 26
06108 Halle (Saale)
Germany
+49 345 55 24376
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Miguel Angel Carrasco (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
Michela Balsamo ("G. d'Annunzio" University, Italy)
Tom Booth (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Kay Brauer (Martin Luther University, Halle–Wittenberg, Germany)
Irena Burić (University of Zadar, Croatia)
Marjolein Fokkema (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Samuel Greiff (University of Luxembourg)
Nelson Hauck-Filho (Universidade São Francisco, Brazil)
Kai T. Horstmann (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Lena Lämmle (Medical School Hamburg, Germany)
John Rauthmann (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Jennifer Tackett (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Michele Vecchione (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy)
Xiangdong Yang (East China Normal University, China)