Journal of Managerial Psychology launches new manuscript type - “brief reports”
Journal of Managerial Psychology is pleased to share that we have launched a new manuscript type and are now welcoming submission of “brief reports”.
As submissions have increased, we have increasingly encountered high-quality manuscripts that, while methodologically strong, offer more incremental theoretical and practical implications. These studies play an important role in replication, extension, and cumulative knowledge building. The brief report provides an outlet for this work in a more concise form than our feature articles.
Brief report submissions are limited to 4,000 words. This includes all text, including the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, figures, and appendices. Brief reports otherwise follow the manuscript requirements described in the author guidelines. Submissions are concise papers that are methodologically rigorous, make meaningful intellectual contributions of wide potential interest to readers, and are likely to stimulate further research in the field. Brief report submission types may include, but are not limited to:
- Important incremental contributions
- Preliminary or exploratory results offering interesting insights
- Empirical findings with immediate and significant practical implications
- Replications
- Null findings, especially those challenging existing theory
The review process is the same for all submission types. Authors may choose to submit their manuscripts as brief report during their initial submission. Further, Associate Editors may propose that manuscripts initially submitted as longer submission types, such as Research Papers (i.e., 7,500-word limit), be revised and resubmitted as a brief report when they perceive that the manuscript’s contribution can be concisely expressed in a shorter format.