JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR
A SPECIAL SOCIAL MEDIA EDITION
SUBMISSIONS REQUESTED BY: September 1, 2020
Website: https://www.springer.com/psychology/journal/41347
The Journal welcomes submissions researching, evaluating and describing uses and misuses of social media including uses of technology and social interaction such as texting, email, instant messaging, professional websites, microblogging, and all forms of social networking. The Special Edition is geared to help clinicians, trainees, training program directors, and clinic/health system leaders/administrators improve clinical care at the interface of behavioral health and technology.
Suggested topics:
Research and Evaluation
Diagnosis, Assessment, Triage and Interventions
Ethical Practice and Professionalism – Ethical Standards and Guidelines
Security/Privacy Issues
Regulatory/Legal
Education/Training/Competencies
Communication/Marketing/Outreach
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Digital Phenotype
Addiction/Misuse: Cyberbullying, Sexting, Unwanted Contact,
Offensive/Illegal Content and Other
Implementation Science
Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Global Settings
Populations –Adolescents, Children, Health Professionals, LGBTQ and
Gender and Sexually Diverse, Racial and Ethnic Minority, Neurodiverse,
Older Adults, Severely Mentally Ill, Military and Veterans, Rural, and Others
Disaster/Emergency Response
Apps – specific apps (Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube,
TikTok, Twitter, etc)
Submissions will be judged via five primary criteria:
1) Qualitative approaches (e.g., and others), data mining, thematic/content analyses, and natural language processing;
2) Evidence-base, research methodology and design (i.e., RCT, effectiveness and implementation science);
3) Synthetic review of information toward competencies, best practices and guidelines rather than suggestion “good ideas”;
4) Generalizability of results into implementation, dissemination and sustainability (e.g., global, across systems and across professions/learners);
5) Presentation: originality and clarity.