Call for papers: IJPBS Special Issue Supplement "Psychometrics in Mental Health". Submission deadline 31 December 2026. 30% APC discount for accepted special issue articles.
📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue (Supplement)
Psychometrics in Mental Health
The Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (IJPBS) invites submissions to its Special Issue Supplement "Psychometrics in Mental Health".
Reliable and valid measurement is the basis of good research and good clinical care in psychiatry and psychology. This special issue brings together studies on measurement, test theory, the validity and reliability of instruments, measurement models, item response theory and computerized adaptive testing, and the development and cross-cultural adaptation of mental-health instruments.
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Topics
- Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of instruments, including measurement invariance across gender, age and culture
- Modern test theory: item response theory (IRT), Rasch models and computerized adaptive testing
- Advanced factor and network models (confirmatory factor analysis, bifactor and ESEM models, network psychometrics)
- Short forms and screening tools for clinical and primary care settings
- Measures of behavioral and digital addictions (internet gaming, social media, problematic smartphone use)
- Transdiagnostic processes: emotion regulation, perfectionism and rumination
- Stigma, mental-health literacy and help-seeking
- Psycho-oncology and chronic illness: fear of recurrence, caregiver burden and resilience
- Digital and remote assessment, including online and ecological momentary assessment
- Child, adolescent and neurodevelopmental assessment
Article types
Original Research, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses, Review Articles and Brief Communications.
Timeline
| Submission deadline | 31 December 2026 |
| Peer review and publication | Continuous, after acceptance |
| Special issue | Volume 20, Supplement (2026) |
Manuscripts accepted after the supplement is completed will be published in a regular issue of IJPBS.
Peer review and editorial oversight
All manuscripts receive the same editorial handling and independent external peer review as regular IJPBS submissions. See the journal's peer review process.
The Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Mehran Zarghami, is responsible for the content of this special issue, as for the whole journal. All papers must fall within the aims and scope of IJPBS. Where the Editor-in-Chief is an author, the publisher appoints the handling editor, as set out in the journal's conflict of interest policy.
This supplement also includes psychometric studies that were submitted to IJPBS as regular manuscripts and peer reviewed through the journal's standard process. Articles published so far are listed in the Volume 20 Supplement.
How to submit
Submit your manuscript through the IJPBS online submission system. Please state in your cover letter that the manuscript is submitted for the special issue Psychometrics in Mental Health.
30% APC discount for this special issue
Articles submitted to this special issue and accepted for publication in it receive a 30% discount on the article processing charge.
- We email the discount code to IJPBS authors.
- If you have not received it, submit a ticket after your article is accepted, and we will send you the code.
- Enter the code when you pay the article processing charge.
Licence
Accepted articles are published open access under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
For questions, please submit a ticket to the editorial office.
Kind regards,
Prof. Mehran Zarghami
Editor-in-Chief, Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences