Research in Developmental Disabilities explained

Research in Developmental Disabilities
Former Names:	Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, Applied Research in Mental Retardation
Abbreviation:	Res. Dev. Disabil.
Discipline:	Child psychiatry
Editor:	Dagmara Dimitriou
Publisher:	Elsevier
History:	1987–present
Frequency:	Bimonthly
Impact:	3.635
Impact-Year:	2021
Issn:	0891-4222
Eissn:	1873-3379
Coden:	RDDIEF
Website:	http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-developmental-disabilities/
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Research in Developmental Disabilities is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering developmental disabilities. It was formed in 1987 by the merger of Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities and Applied Research in Mental Retardation, which were established in 1981 and 1980, respectively.^{[1] [2]} It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Dagmara Dimitriou (UCL Institute of Education).

In early February of 2015, the journal's founding editor-in-chief Johnny Matson (Louisiana State University) was accused of excessively citing his own works and thereby inflating his citation counts.^{[3] [4]} An investigation by Elsevier came to the conclusion that Matson had used his position to have papers published without proper peer review that used assessment batteries developed by himself and sold through a company registered in his wife's name, failing to report this conflict of interest.^[5] This eventually led to the retraction of 24 papers across Research in Developmental Disabilities and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, a second Elsevier journal edited by Matson. Matson was also criticized for publishing a large number of his own papers, citing his own work, in these journals. Effective March 2015 Elsevier appointed Dagmara Dimitriou as the new editor-in-chief^[6] and updated the journal's editorial policies.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.635.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Applied research in mental retardation . NLM Catalog . 6 December 2014.
2. Web site: Analysis and intervention in developmental disabilities . NLM Catalog . 6 December 2014.
3. News: Etchells . Pete . Chambers . Chris . 2015-03-12 . The games we play: A troubling dark side in academic publishing . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-06-02 . 0261-3077.
4. Web site: Jump . Paul . February 25, 2015 . Too Much Self-Citation? Oxford professor questions LSU scholar's articles -- published in a journal he edited. . 2023-06-02 . Inside Higher Ed . . en.
5. Web site: Montanari . Shaena . 2023-02-02 . Prolific autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted . 2023-06-02 . Spectrum . . en-US . 10.53053/YIME4862.
6. 2015 . Editorial Board . Research in Developmental Disabilities . en . 135 . 104475 . 10.1016/S0891-4222(23)00053-7. free .
7. Book: 2017 . Research in Developmental Disabilities . 2016 Journal Citation Reports . Journal Citation Reports . . Science . Web of Science.