Expanded BBS 1998: Call for Papers

[Apologes if you get this message more than once: sent to several lists] BBS 1998 Has Expanded by 50% CALL FOR PAPERS Behavioral and Sciences Journal (BBS), founded in '78, has begun its third decade in '98 with a 50% Expansion. This means that more articles can be accorded Open Peer Commentary, the feature that has had such a great impact on the international cognitive and biobehavioral science community. (BBS's ISI Impact Factor of 15 is nearly three times the highest impact Psychology journal and is one of the 25 highest among all 6500 science, social science and Arts/Humanities journals indexed by ISI.) BBS is a unique scientific communication medium, providing the service of Open Peer Commentary for reports of significant current work in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology and cognitive science. If a manuscript is judged by BBS referees and editors to be appropriate for Commentary it is circulated to a large number of commentators across disciplines and around the world. The target article, commentaries, and authors' responses then co-appear in BBS. To be eligible for publication, a paper should not only meet the standards of a journal such as Psychological Review or the International Review of Neurobiology in terms of conceptual rigor, empirical grounding, and clarity of style, but should also offer a clear rationale for soliciting Commentary. A BBS target article can be (i) the report and discussion of empirical research that the author judges to have broader scope and implications than might be more appropriately reported in a specialty journal; (ii) an unusually significant theoretical article that formally models or systematizes a body of research; or (iii) a novel interpretation, synthesis, or critique of existing experimental or theoretical work. Occasionally, articles dealing with social or philosophical aspects of the behavioral and brain sciences will be considered. Multiple reviews of books also appear. BBS's Web Pages: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Psychology harnad(a)princeton.edu Director, phone: +44 1703 592582 Cognitive Sciences Centre fax: +44 1703 594597 Department of Psychology http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/