Academic Journal Editing
As of January 1, 2024, Tess Neal is the Incoming Editor-in-Chief of the American Psychological Association's journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law. She worked with outgoing Editor Michael Lamb on his editorial team for 3 years as an associate editor at the journal before being appointed by APA to become the new editor.
The editorial vision statement written as part of the application process is available here. The new incoming associate editors (selected through an open application process) are Tina Zottoli, Kara Moore, Jason Chin, and Kat Albrect. The new APA editorial fellows are Mikaela Spruill and Andrea Avila. The names of the new consulting editors will be published on the journal's website soon. Published editorial: Lamb, M.E., Steblay, N.M., & Neal, T.M.S. (2021). Psychology, Public Policy, & Law adopts further open science practices and refreshes the commitment to generalizable empirical research. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 27(3), 293-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000318. |
Prior to becoming editor of PPP&L, Tess Neal served as an associate editor with the Journal of Personality Assessment for five years.
As part of that work, she co-edited a special issue of the journal on Personality Assessments in Legal Contexts. The entire issue is published as open-access (all the papers are freely available). Introduction to that special issue: Neal, T.M.S., Sellbom, M., & de Ruiter, C. (2022). Personality assessments in legal contexts: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2033248 |
Meta-Reflections and Improvements for Journal Editing
A few papers:
Silverstein, P., Elman, C., Montoya, A., McGillivray, B., Pennington, C.R., Harrison, C.H., Steltenpohl, C.N., Röer9, J.P., Corker, K.S., Charron, L.M., Elsherif, M., Malicki, M., Hayes-Harb, R., Grischgl, S., Neal, T.M.S., Rhys Evans, R., Karhulahti, V., Krenzer, W.L.D., Belaus, A., Moreau, D., Burn, D.I., Chin, E., Plomp, E., Mayo-Wilson, E., Lyle, J., Adler, J.M., Bottesini, J.G., Lawson, K.M., Schmidt, K., Reneau, K., Vilhuber, L., Waltman, L., Gernsbacher, M.A., Plonski, P.E., Ghai, S., Grant, S., Christian, T., Ngiam, W., & Syed, M. (in press). A guide for social science editors in easing into open science. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5
Howard, A., Neal, T.M.S., Kirtley, O., Urry, H., & Tackett, J.L. (in progress). Open science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on progress, lessons learned, and suggestions for continued improvement.
Silverstein, P., Elman, C., Montoya, A., McGillivray, B., Pennington, C.R., Harrison, C.H., Steltenpohl, C.N., Röer9, J.P., Corker, K.S., Charron, L.M., Elsherif, M., Malicki, M., Hayes-Harb, R., Grischgl, S., Neal, T.M.S., Rhys Evans, R., Karhulahti, V., Krenzer, W.L.D., Belaus, A., Moreau, D., Burn, D.I., Chin, E., Plomp, E., Mayo-Wilson, E., Lyle, J., Adler, J.M., Bottesini, J.G., Lawson, K.M., Schmidt, K., Reneau, K., Vilhuber, L., Waltman, L., Gernsbacher, M.A., Plonski, P.E., Ghai, S., Grant, S., Christian, T., Ngiam, W., & Syed, M. (in press). A guide for social science editors in easing into open science. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5
Howard, A., Neal, T.M.S., Kirtley, O., Urry, H., & Tackett, J.L. (in progress). Open science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on progress, lessons learned, and suggestions for continued improvement.