Call for papers for a DCN Special Issue on ABCD studies
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study: Longitudinal Methods, Developmental Findings, and Associations with Environmental Risk Factors
Guest Editors: Monica Luciana, Deanna Barch, Megan Herting
This special issue of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is focused on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The ABCD Consortium study includes 21 data collection sites that have successfully enrolled and are following nearly 12,000 adolescents and their families using a comprehensive neurobehavioral and MRI-based neuroimaging battery. The data have been made available to the scientific community through the NIH National Data Archive. As of this writing, the project’s baseline data, year 1 data, and part of the year 2 data have been released. The goal of this issue is to update the field on the study’s longitudinal measures, best practices for the analysis of longitudinal data, and emerging findings. We are particularly interested in empirical papers that use best practices to establish robustness and replicability, take advantage of the longitudinal nature of the data, and integrate findings across measurement domains. This issue will be focused on papers that present new information on psychometrics or validity of measures, best practices for analytic approaches, and/or novel neurodevelopmental findings in accord with the mission of the journal. In keeping with the mission of the journal, papers should address, either through methodology or discussion, relevance to the field's understanding of neurodevelopment.
Submission instructions
The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience’s submission system will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from 01 Feb 2021. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI: ABCD Longitudinal methods”. Please submit your manuscript before 31 Mar 2021.
All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.
