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International Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences

ISSN
3141-8635 (Online)

QuarterlyPublished since 2021Open access, CC BY 4.0Double-blind peer review

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About the journal

The International Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences (IJSBS) publishes empirical and theoretical research on how individuals, families and communities think, behave and change over the life course. Its readers include psychologists, sociologists, education researchers, gerontologists and public policy analysts, as well as practitioners who design and evaluate social programs. The journal is particularly interested in work from settings that are underrepresented in behavioral science, and in studies that test whether established theories hold across cultures, age groups and institutional contexts.

Every manuscript is assessed through double-blind peer review, and editors give equal weight to conceptual clarity, sound measurement and transparent reporting of methods and limitations. IJSBS publishes original research, reviews, systematic reviews, short communications and perspectives, and encourages preregistration and the sharing of data and analysis code where ethically possible. All articles are open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Articles are published continuously as soon as they are accepted and edited, and are then grouped into quarterly issues.

Aims and scope

IJSBS aims to build cumulative, policy-relevant knowledge about human behavior and social life. It seeks studies that address consequential questions about mental health, learning, family relationships, inequality, aging and the effects of public programs, using designs suited to the question, whether experimental, longitudinal, qualitative or comparative. The journal values careful measurement, honest reporting of null and mixed findings, and clear discussion of what results mean for practitioners and policymakers. It aims to connect researchers across disciplines and regions who study related problems with different methods and theories.

Topics within scope

  • Mental health and psychological well-being
  • Child and adolescent development
  • Education, learning and student outcomes
  • Family, households and intergenerational relations
  • Aging, caregiving and later life
  • Social inequality and social mobility
  • Public policy and program evaluation
  • Digital media and social behavior
  • Migration, ethnicity and social cohesion
  • Health behavior and behavior change

Latest articles

All articles

Original Research

Academic Burnout, Sleep Quality and Psychological Distress among University Students in Turkey: A Multi-Campus Cross-Sectional Mediation Study

Merve Kılıç, Burak Özdemir, Seda Karaca et al.

Academic burnout and poor sleep are common among university students, and both are linked to psychological distress. Few studies have examined whether sleep quality helps explain the association between burnout and distress in student populations outside Western Europe, North America and East Asia…

Review Article

Social Media Use and Adolescent Well-Being: Reconciling Mixed Evidence Through Measurement, Heterogeneity and Developmental Timing

Charlotte Hargreaves, Daniel Achterberg, Priya Venkatesan et al.

Concern that social media harms adolescent mental health has shaped public debate and policy, from school phone bans to proposed age limits, yet the research evidence remains contested. Large cross-sectional studies typically find small negative associations between time spent on social media and…

Original Research

Intergenerational Co-Residence and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Mexico: Evidence from the Mexican Health and Aging Study

Alejandra Montaño Ruiz, Héctor Villalobos, Laura Benítez-Cruz et al.

Intergenerational co-residence remains common in Mexico and is often assumed to protect older adults against loneliness and depression, but population aging and migration are reshaping household structures. Evidence on how specific living arrangements relate to later depressive symptoms is limited…

Current issue and archive

Quarterly issues under continuous publication: articles are added to the current issue as soon as they are ready.

Volume 6, Issue 4CurrentOctober–December 20262 articlesVolume 6, Issue 3July–September 20261 article

Earlier volumes are listed in the article archive, which can be searched and filtered by issue, year and article type.

Editorial board

Full editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Ingrid Solberg

PhD

Department of Psychology, University of OsloOslo, Norway

Ingrid Solberg is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Oslo, where she directs a research group on adolescent mental health. Her work uses longitudinal cohort data to study how sleep, school pressure and family relationships shape emotional problems from early adolescence into adulthood. She has coordinated cross-national surveys of student well-being in Northern Europe and has advised national education authorities on school-based prevention. She previously served as associate editor of an international developmental psychology journal and joined IJSBS as Editor-in-Chief in 2023.

  • Developmental psychology
  • Adolescent mental health
  • Longitudinal methods

Associate Editor

Dr. Ananya Krishnan

PhD

School of Education, Tata Institute of Social SciencesMumbai, India

  • Sociology of education
  • Educational inequality

Associate Editor

Prof. Wanjiru Kamau

PhD

Department of Psychology, University of NairobiNairobi, Kenya

  • Community psychology
  • Youth mental health
  • Global mental health

Associate Editor

Assoc. Prof. Matías Cifuentes

PhD

Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileSantiago, Chile

  • Aging and later life
  • Family demography

For authors

Author guidelines

Author guidelines

Article types
Original Research, Review Article, Systematic Review, Short Communication, Perspective
Reference style
Vancouver (numbered)
Publication charge
US$850
Peer review
Double-blind
License
CC BY 4.0

Manuscripts should follow the reporting guideline for their study design, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE.

Manuscript submission

  1. 1Submission. Send the manuscript, cover letter and declarations to the editorial office for the journal you have chosen.
  2. 2Editorial check. The editorial office checks scope, formatting, completeness and text similarity before peer review.
  3. 3Peer review. At least two independent reviewers assess the manuscript under a double-blind model.
  4. 4Decision. The handling editor accepts, requests revision or declines, and shares all reviewer reports with the authors.
  5. 5Publication. Accepted articles are copyedited, typeset, assigned a DOI and published open access in the current issue.
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Publication policies

IJSBS follows the publishing policies that apply to every Scholix journal.