The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has officially announced that Ulf-Dietrich Reips will be Editor-in-Chief of the high impact journal* Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI) from July 1, 2025 to the end of 2028. After having served as consulting editor for other important journals such as Behavior Research Methods (BRM) and Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications and having founded the International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS), he is now taking on this new challenge.

Reips will be the first editor of PSPI coming from outside of North America. On behalf of the whole team, we would like to congratulate Prof Reips on this achievement! 🍾

There will be an interview with him on his vision and plans for the editorial board of PSPI in the coming weeks. You can also find a German press release on the University of Konstanz website.

*Clarivate’s Web of Science ranks the journal No. 1 of 219 about Psychology, multidisciplinary, in its Journal Citation Reports, with a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 7.27 and a Journal Impact Factor, JIF, of 18.2. Scopus ranks the journal No. 1 out of 307 in Psychology, miscellaneous, with an SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) of 9.887 and No. 2 in Psychology (all) with a CiteScore of 44.800.