Revista de Psicología, edited by the Editorial Fund of the PUCP, was founded in Abril of 1983 under the leadership of Dr. Roberto Lerner. In 1988, Dr. Cecilia Thorne became the director, and maintained this position until 2008, during which time she became the Editor Emeritus. In 2008, Dr. Sheyla Blumen became the director and editor of the Journal of Psychology.
Throughout the last 31 years, the journal has been published without interruption and has evolved according to the scientific trends in the global community. Consequently, in 1993 it became the first Peruvian scholarly journal to be indexed in PsycINFO, an important database for increasing international visibility. Currently it is indexed in the following databases: PePSIC, EBSCOhost, Cengage Learning, Latindex, SciELO, Psicodoc, DOAJ, Dialnet, Journal TOCs, BASE, WorldCat, CLASE, PscyINFO, PsycNET and Primo Central.
The journal has won various awards such as Recognition for Best Scientific Publication 2010 and Recognition for Scientific Publication 2011, both awarded by the Peruvian College of Psychologists, an organization that electronically supports the visibility of the journal. Similarly, the leadership of PsycINFO has offered support for increasing the visibility of the journal.
Revista de Psicología has strictly adhered to its scholarly peer-review publication system, and has been published without interruption biannually since 1983. It has published original articles in the different areas of psychological research, book reviews, and technical notes of scholarly interest. In order to maintain a peer-reviewed process suggested by the APA, the articles submitted by authors affiliated with Peruvian academic institutions are reviewed by international peers, and the articles submitted by authors outside of Peru are reviewed by peers from Peru or another country where the authors have no affiliation. The Publishing Fund and the Central Library mail the print version of the journal to institutions that are part of the journal exchange policy.
The efforts to promote the visibility of the journal are producing results; and evidence of this is the significant increase in submissions from Latin American countries, foremost by Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The journal has progressed from receiving 10 annual submissions to nearly 70 submissions annually, creating the need to improve the efficiency of the editorial process.
