Psychometrika Review Process

Upon submission to Psychometrika via Editorial Manager, manuscripts are forwarded by the Managing Editor to the appropriate Section Editor. Authors may specify in the comments field which section their manuscript should be forwarded to. For more information on the possible sections, click here.
Prior to the acceptance of a manuscript for publication authors work exclusively with a Section Editor, through the Managing Editor. After a manuscript has been accepted, authors work exclusively with the Managing Editor and the Publication Editor.
It is the responsibility of authors to remove identifying information from their manuscript. The Editorial Office will try to help in this process if needed.
After making a decision on a manuscript, the Section Editor will send a decision letter via the Editorial Manager system to the contact author by e-mail.
After the notification of acceptance from a Section Editor, the author (or contact author) will have the chance to make any final changes before publication. The Publication Editor will work with the author to make sure that the manuscript adheres to Psychometrika's style, and that all typos and blinding adaptations have been caught and corrected before the manuscript goes on to production.
Once the author and Publication Editor are satisfied, the author will submit the final source files (LATEX orMSWord files, as well as all original figures and tables) to the Editorial Manager system, whereupon the Managing Editor will forward it to the production system.
Manuscripts are published in approximately the order they are received after acceptance, not in the order they are accepted. Exceptions to this rule may occasionally be made at the Editors' discretion. Two notable exceptions are as follows:
- Articles which require free color printing will be delayed until the next available January issue. Authors that do want color printing but do not want to wait until an available January issue have the option to pay for color printing, at rates set by Springer.
- Short articles may be moved ahead in the queue to fill out journals.