Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities (ICA) is up and running and ready for submissions! This has happened in record time thanks to support, encouragement, and input from many people, especially those who helped fund us. We’re also thrilled to announce that Anna-Lena Schubert and Tim Bates have agreed to be Associate Editors.
Since Elsevier’s Intelligence has a “new” direction (and most of their EB resigned in protest), ICA was created to ensure intelligence researchers have a publication outlet edited by individuals with strong track records of intelligence research and committed to free inquiry. Moreover, to maximize the availability of every published paper, ICA is entirely online and Open Access. Because profit is not a primary motivating factor, the publication fee is substantially lower than all other journals that cover this area of psychology (at least by 50%). Since many intelligence researchers do not have funding for publication costs, ICA offers generous waivers and discounts. The Editorial Board represents expertise for the full, diverse range of intelligence topics, research designs, and data analysis methods.
But wait. There’s more. To encourage submissions, any manuscripts submitted before September 1st, 2025 and subsequently accepted will have all publication charges waived.
ICA is hosted on the Scholastica journal publishing platform. Here is a link for official ICA information including Aims and Scope, Editorial Board, and what authors need to know for preparing and submitting manuscripts: icajournal.scholasticahq.com (see tabs on upper left; this site will be evolving visually and adding functionally over the next few weeks but it already supports all aspects of submission, review, and publication). Any email invitations you receive inviting reviews of submissions and other simple site registration will come from Scholastica.
Intelligence research has moved far beyond traditional psychometrics into cognitive psychology, genetics, neuroimaging, neuroscience, and many other domains. All perspectives are welcomed to publish in ICA. We pledge fair and constructive reviews by experts and speedy online publication. But to be successful and serve the intelligence research community, we need submissions so please consider clicking the link above with your best work as soon as possible. It’s now up to you.
With gratitude,
Sincerely,
Tom Coyle, Editor-in-Chief
Rich Haier, Consulting Editor
