[visionlist] Call for Papers: Major Changes Coming at Perception and Psychophysics

[Jeremy Wolfe]

Major Changes Coming at Perception and Psychophysics

New Editor: Jeremy M Wolfe, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard 
Medical School, Boston, MA <wolfe @ search.bwh.harvard.edu>

New Associate Editors:

Charlie Chubb (UC Irvine, CA)
Brad Gibson (Notre Dame,  IN)
Simon Grondin (U. Laval, Quebec)
Lynne Nygaard (Emory, Atlanta, GA)
Adriane Seiffert (Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN)
Josh Solomon (City U., London, UK)
Shaun Vecera (U Iowa, Iowa City, IO)

New content

Perception and Psychophysics will publish four types of items (For 
specific requirements, go to - 
http://www.psychonomic.org/PP/manuscript.htm)

a.	Research Articles - These are articles of the sort that have 
been the standard content of the Journal, typically several 
experiments bound together with a coherent theoretical account.

b.	Brief Reports - Short articles (c.f. Science or Psych 
Science) reporting breaking news of general interest to the 
Perception and Psychophysics community. You keep it brief (3000 words 
plus figures) and exciting. We will strive to get it into print 
swiftly.

c.	Tutorial Reviews - A series of review articles, one per 
issue, intended to be what you will read first when you want to know 
what is going on in a part of the field outside your own area of 
expertise.  Length will be "moderate" (i.e. shorter Annual Review 
chapters, longer than Current Directions in Psych. Sci.). 
Bibliography will be extensive.  Tutorial reviews will be 
commissioned by invitation. However, self-nomination is welcome. Send 
a brief email with a bare outline of a proposed article to any editor.

d.	Research Highlights - Perception and Psychophysics will 
publish very brief "news" reports on current articles in the journal 
and elsewhere following the model of the "Research Highlights" 
section of Nature. Typically, these will be written by the editors 
and editorial board but, if you find a particular article to be 
important (presumably, not one of your own), feel free to submit 2-3 
brief paragraphs.  

New submission procedure

 From Jan 1, 2008, submissions to Perception and Psychophysics will be 
made through the journal's submission website - 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pandp. For instructions, go to - 
http://www.psychonomic.org/PP/manuscript.htm

New commitment to speed

We recognize that long delays between submission and eventual 
publication are undesirable. The editors of the journal and the 
publication office of the Psychonomic Society are committed to rapid 
review and to rapid publication of accepted manuscripts while 
maintaining high quality of the final result. If and when you review 
for the journal, you can help us meet that commitment with timely 
reviews.

New electronic features

Perception and Psychophysics' online presence will migrate to a new 
platform soon. This will enable

a.	Free color illustrations in the online/pdf versions of your 
article even if the print version is in grayscale.
b.	Easier access and downloading of articles.
c.	Emailed Table of Contents alerts when new issues are put online.
d.	More extensive online archiving of supplementary material, 
data, code, etc.

We welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to send an email, 
wolfe @ search.bwh.harvard.edu and feel free (and encouraged) to send 
us the best that you have.

Timing

The new editorial board started accepting papers as of Jan. 1, 2008. 
The new features will begin appearing in print and on the web within 
six to twelve months.



-- 
Jeremy M Wolfe
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

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