Human Development (journal)
Academic journal
Human Development is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Karger Publishers. Established in 1958 as Vita Humana by Hans Thomae, the journal was published under the name Human Development from 1965.
01Scope
Human Development covers all aspects of human development, particularly developmental psychology. Its scope includes disparate disciplines such as anthropology, biology, education, psychology, and sociology, among others. Human Development publishes theoretical and metatheoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentially powerful ideas, and differentiate key constructs. Contributions come primarily from developmental psychology but are welcome from other relevant disciplines.
02Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in, but not limited to,:
03Editors-in-Chief
Founder: Hans Thomae (1958-1981)
Successors:
- CM.L. Langeveld (1963-1974)
- Bernice L. Neugarten (1963-1969)
- Klaus F. Riegel (1970-1977)
- John A. Meacham (1977-1987)
- Wolfgang Edelstein (1982-1987)
- Hermine Sinclair (1982-1987)
- Deanna Kuhn (1988-1996)
- Barbara Rogoff (1997-2002)
- Geoffrey B. Saxe (2003-2006)
- Larry Nucci (2007-2019)
- Susan Rivera (2019-2023)
- David C. Witherington (2023-present)
04Affiliated Society
The journal is the official journal of the Jean Piaget Society.
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