Recruiting Editors for Behavioral Sciences

Applications for editor positions are now open for Behavioral Sciences (ISSN: 2076-328X). The positions and their responsibilities are as follows:

Editorial Board Member

Providing occasional feedback on the journal scope and performance;
Making decisions or giving advice on regular submissions in your field;
Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research and making final decisions for submitted papers;
Publishing one paper per year, free of charge, in the journal.

Guest Editor

Shaping the topic and composing a short introduction (rationale) to the Special Issue for website announcements;
Soliciting contributions or suggesting potential contributors;
Pre-checking new submissions to ascertain their suitability for the issue;
Making decisions regarding whether to accept or reject a paper after peer review and author revisions.

Topic Editor

Setting up at least one Special Issue (SI) over two years of working for the journal and proposing a detailed strategy plan for the SI (including soliciting papers, promoting the SI, etc.);
Promoting the journal during conferences (adding 1–2 slides into your presentations, distributing flyers, recommending the journal to your colleagues, etc.);
Providing support for Special Issues on topics related to your expertise or when the Guest Editor(s) is (are) not available, including SI promotion via social media, pre-checking new submissions, making decisions, and providing advice on some scientific matters.

Reviewer Board Member

We will announce your name on the homepage of this journal as a member of the reviewer board;
Providing your opinion for papers within your area of expertise;
If you provide comprehensive comments, MDPI will offer you vouchers (of up to CHF 100 for each paper) which can be used for publications in this journal;
The Behavioral Sciences Editorial Board will acknowledge your work in an editorial paper for all the reviewers;
Reviewer Board Members may have the opportunity to join the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief);
Partial waivers on the publishing fees will be granted for your first submission in this journal in 2022;
For more reviewer instructions, please see: https://www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X) is an international, scientific, open access journal on psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, behavioral biology, and behavioral genetics that is published monthly online by MDPI. Because it is an open access journal, the papers published receive high levels of publicity. Behavioral Sciences is indexed by SSCI, Scopus (CiteScore 3.4), and PubMed. The Behavioral Sciences website can be accessed at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci.

We think that your expertise, together with our rigorous editorial policies, can help to build a high-quality journal specifically dedicated to behavioral science research. If you are interested in these editor positions, please send your full academic CV and a short cover letter that details your interest in and enthusiasm for the position to debbie.li@mdpi.com. With your support, Behavioral Sciences will continue to succeed in the coming years. We look forward to hearing from you soon.