Abstract
The Journal of Medical Psychology is a modernized and internationalized continuation of the prestigious German-language title Zeitschrift fur Medische Psychologie. The Journal of Medical Psychology will continue where the Zeitschrift left off, with Volume 22, and moving forward will be published exclusively in the English language. The journal will function as a fully Open Access, international peer-reviewed journal, meeting the Open Access requirements of funding agencies worldwide. All processing fees have been waived for papers submitted in 2020 and 2021. It has a newly-installed excellent Editorial Board, which is spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief Thilo Deckersbach, PhD (University of Applied Sciences Europe, Berlin, Germany).
The Journal of Medical Psychology will publish articles (original research, brief reports, and reviews) from all aspects of medical psychology. This involves research on clinical psychology, neuropsychology,behavioral medicine, biological psychology, and neuroscience. Specifically, we encourage submissions involving small, highly innovative studies, using behavioral neuroscience and bio-behavioral approaches (e.g. neuroimaging, fMRI, MEG, etc.), and studies applying the translational (cross-diagnostic) approaches, such as those outlined in the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoc: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-priorities/rdoc/index.shtml).
The journal strives to provide authors with short turn-around times and rigorous manuscript review process, as well as high visibility and impact to the science published. We thank the authors of papers published in this first issue for their confidence and support, and we invite the researchers working on all aspects of medical psychology to consider the Journal of Medical Psychology for their manuscripts.