Global Journal of Behavior Analysis and Intervention

The Global Journal of Behavior Analysis and Intervention is committed to maintaining high standards of scholarly integrity, ethical publishing, transparency, and responsible dissemination of research and practice-based knowledge. The journal expects authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members to follow ethical standards consistent with responsible research conduct, peer review, and professional publication practices.

The journal publishes work related to behavior analysis, autism intervention, developmental disabilities, education, assessment, treatment, caregiver training, international practice, and related areas of applied research. Because much of this work may involve children, individuals with disabilities, caregivers, schools, clinical programs, and vulnerable populations, authors are expected to demonstrate careful attention to consent, confidentiality, ethical approval, data integrity, and culturally responsive practice.

1. Ethical Oversight

Research submitted to the journal must comply with applicable ethical standards for research involving human participants, clinical records, educational data, or caregiver-reported information. Authors must state whether the study received approval from an institutional review board, ethics committee, or equivalent review body.

For studies determined to be exempt from formal review, authors must clearly state the basis for exemption and identify the reviewing body when applicable. If a study did not receive formal ethics review, authors must explain why review was not required and describe the procedures used to protect participants.

Manuscripts involving children, individuals with disabilities, clinical populations, or other potentially vulnerable groups must describe safeguards used to protect participants’ rights, privacy, dignity, and welfare.

2. Informed Consent

Authors must confirm that informed consent was obtained when required. For research involving minors or individuals unable to provide consent independently, authors must indicate whether parent, guardian, or legally authorized representative consent was obtained. When appropriate, assent procedures should also be described.

For case studies, clinical examples, photographs, videos, educational records, or detailed personal information, authors must ensure that individuals cannot be identified unless written permission for publication has been obtained. De-identification should include removal or alteration of names, dates, locations, and other identifying details when necessary.

3. Participant Confidentiality and Privacy

Authors are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of all participants, clients, families, schools, organizations, and service providers described in submitted manuscripts. Identifying information should not be included unless it is essential to the manuscript and written permission has been obtained.

Clinical, educational, and organizational data must be presented in a manner that protects privacy and minimizes the risk of deductive identification. Authors should avoid including unnecessary demographic details or contextual information that could reasonably identify an individual, family, school, agency, or community.

4. Data Integrity and Accuracy

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of the data reported in their manuscripts. Data must not be fabricated, falsified, selectively reported, or manipulated in a misleading manner.

Authors should retain original data, scoring materials, coding files, consent documentation, and analysis records for a reasonable period after publication. The journal may request clarification, supporting documentation, or de-identified data when questions arise about the accuracy or integrity of a submitted or published manuscript.

5. Data Availability and Transparency

Authors should include a data availability statement when applicable. The statement should indicate whether data are available, unavailable because of privacy or ethical restrictions, available upon reasonable request, or deposited in a public repository.

When data cannot be shared because they involve protected clinical, educational, or personal information, authors should explain the restriction. Authors are encouraged to share de-identified data, materials, measures, codebooks, intervention protocols, or analysis scripts when doing so is ethical, legal, and practical.

6. Authorship and Contributor Responsibilities

Authorship should be limited to individuals who made meaningful scholarly contributions to the work. Contributions may include study conception, design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, manuscript drafting, critical revision, or final approval of the manuscript.

All listed authors must approve the final manuscript before submission and agree to be accountable for the work. Individuals who contributed to the project but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged with their permission.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all authors have reviewed the manuscript, approved submission, disclosed relevant conflicts of interest, and agreed to the order of authorship.

7. Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, professional, personal, institutional, or intellectual conflicts of interest that could influence, or appear to influence, the submitted work.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Ownership or financial interest in an assessment, curriculum, intervention, training program, clinic, school, company, or product discussed in the manuscript.

• Paid consultation, employment, speaker fees, or royalties related to the topic of the manuscript.

• Development of a tool, assessment, protocol, or intervention evaluated in the manuscript.

• Personal or professional relationships that could affect objectivity.

A conflict of interest does not automatically prevent publication. However, full disclosure allows editors, reviewers, and readers to evaluate the work transparently.

8. Funding Disclosure

Authors must disclose all sources of funding, sponsorship, grants, institutional support, or material assistance related to the research or manuscript. If no funding was received, authors should state that no external funding was received.

Authors should also describe the role of the funder, if any, in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or publication decision.

9. Originality, Plagiarism, and Proper Citation

Submitted manuscripts must be original work and must appropriately cite the ideas, language, data, instruments, images, tables, and findings of others. Plagiarism, including copying text without attribution, paraphrasing too closely, using another person’s ideas without citation, or presenting another person’s work as one’s own, is not permitted.

The journal may screen submissions for plagiarism, text overlap, duplicate publication, or other concerns related to originality. Manuscripts with substantial unattributed overlap may be rejected or returned to authors for correction. Published articles found to contain plagiarism may be corrected, retracted, or otherwise addressed according to the seriousness of the concern.

10. Duplicate Submission and Prior Publication

Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not be under review by another journal at the same time. Authors must not submit the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously.

Manuscripts must not have been previously published in substantially the same form. If the manuscript is based on a thesis, dissertation, conference presentation, preprint, report, translated article, or prior publication, authors must disclose this at submission.

The journal may consider manuscripts derived from theses, dissertations, conference presentations, or preprints when properly disclosed and when the submitted manuscript represents a suitable scholarly article.

11. Use of Artificial Intelligence and Writing Assistance

Authors may use artificial intelligence tools for limited support such as grammar correction, formatting assistance, language editing, or organization of text. However, artificial intelligence tools may not be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, or ethical compliance of the work.

Authors are fully responsible for all submitted content, including any text, references, analyses, summaries, or interpretations generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence. Authors must carefully verify all citations, claims, and factual statements.

Substantive use of artificial intelligence tools in drafting, data analysis, coding, translation, image generation, or literature synthesis should be disclosed in the manuscript. Undisclosed or inappropriate use of artificial intelligence may be considered a publication ethics concern.

12. Peer Review Process

The journal uses a double-anonymous peer review process whenever possible. Author identities are concealed from reviewers, and reviewer identities are concealed from authors.

Submitted manuscripts are first reviewed by the editorial team for fit with the journal’s scope, completeness, ethical compliance, formatting, and scholarly quality. Manuscripts that pass initial screening are typically assigned to at least two qualified reviewers.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts for relevance, originality, methodological quality, ethical adequacy, clarity, interpretation of findings, contribution to the field, and appropriateness for the journal. The editor considers reviewer feedback and makes one of the following decisions:

• Accept

• Accept with minor revisions

• Revise and resubmit

• Reject with encouragement to submit a substantially revised manuscript

• Reject

Final publication decisions are made by the editor or assigned editorial decision-maker.

13. Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers are expected to provide fair, respectful, timely, and constructive feedback. Reviews should focus on the quality of the work, the strength of the evidence, ethical concerns, clarity of writing, and relevance to the journal.

Reviewers must keep manuscripts confidential and may not share, copy, distribute, cite, or use unpublished material from a manuscript without permission. Reviewers should decline an invitation to review if they have a conflict of interest, lack appropriate expertise, or cannot complete the review within the requested timeframe.

Reviewer feedback should be professional and free from personal criticism. Concerns about research ethics, plagiarism, data integrity, citation misuse, or duplicate publication should be reported confidentially to the editor.

14. Editorial Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for making fair and unbiased decisions based on the scholarly merit, ethical soundness, relevance, and quality of submitted manuscripts. Editorial decisions should not be influenced by authors’ race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, institutional affiliation, political beliefs, or personal characteristics.

Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and reviewer identities. Editors should recuse themselves from handling manuscripts when they have a conflict of interest, including close personal, professional, financial, or institutional relationships with the authors.

The journal is committed to editorial independence. Publication decisions are based on scholarly and ethical considerations and are not influenced by financial, organizational, political, or personal interests.

15. Misconduct Allegations

The journal takes allegations of research or publication misconduct seriously. Misconduct may include, but is not limited to:

• Fabrication or falsification of data

• Plagiarism

• Duplicate publication

• Undisclosed conflicts of interest

• Inappropriate authorship

• Ethical violations involving human participants

• Misrepresentation of methods or findings

• Manipulation of peer review

• Misuse of artificial intelligence tools

• Failure to protect participant confidentiality

When concerns are raised, the journal may contact authors for clarification, request documentation, consult editorial board members, contact institutions when appropriate, issue corrections, publish expressions of concern, or retract published work depending on the seriousness and evidence available.

16. Corrections

The journal may publish a correction when a published article contains an error that affects clarity, interpretation, accuracy, author information, funding disclosure, conflict of interest disclosure, data reporting, or other important details.

Corrections may be initiated by authors, readers, reviewers, editors, or the publisher. Minor typographical errors that do not affect meaning may be corrected without a formal notice. Errors that materially affect the article will be addressed through a formal correction notice linked to the original article.

17. Retractions

The journal may retract an article when there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, unethical, substantially plagiarized, previously published without proper disclosure, based on fabricated or falsified data, or otherwise seriously compromised.

A retraction notice will identify the article, explain the reason for retraction, and remain publicly available. Retracted articles will not be removed from the scholarly record except in rare cases involving legal requirements, serious privacy violations, or risk of harm.

18. Expressions of Concern

The journal may publish an expression of concern when serious questions arise about a published article but the available information is incomplete, under investigation, or not yet resolved.

An expression of concern may be used when there are unresolved questions about data integrity, ethical approval, participant protection, authorship, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, or reliability of findings. The expression of concern will be updated, replaced, or removed when the matter is resolved.

19. Appeals

Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they believe there was a significant error in the review process, a misunderstanding of the manuscript, or evidence of reviewer or editorial bias.

Appeals must be submitted in writing to the editorial office and should include a clear explanation of the concern. Appeals should not simply disagree with reviewer opinions but should identify specific issues requiring reconsideration.

The editor may uphold the original decision, request additional review, consult another editor or editorial board member, or invite a revised submission. The decision following appeal is final.

20. Complaints

The journal welcomes good-faith complaints about editorial process, publication ethics, conflicts of interest, peer review, corrections, accessibility, or published content.

Complaints should be submitted to the editorial office in writing. The journal will review complaints respectfully and objectively. When appropriate, the matter may be referred to the editor-in-chief, publisher, editorial board, or an independent advisor. The journal will make reasonable efforts to respond to complaints in a timely and transparent manner.

21. Research Involving Clinical, Educational, or Organizational Data

Manuscripts using clinical records, assessment data, school data, organizational data, or service-delivery data must describe how the data were obtained, whether appropriate permissions were secured, and how privacy was protected.

For retrospective record reviews, authors should state whether the project was reviewed by an ethics committee or determined to be exempt. Authors should also describe de-identification procedures and whether consent was required or waived.

When reporting data from clinics, schools, agencies, or community programs, authors should avoid identifying organizations unless permission has been obtained or the organization is already publicly associated with the work.

22. Research Involving Vulnerable Populations

The journal recognizes that many studies in behavior analysis and developmental disability research involve children, individuals with disabilities, nonverbal individuals, caregivers, or families experiencing limited access to services. Authors must demonstrate that research procedures were designed to minimize risk, protect dignity, and avoid coercion.

Studies should describe how consent, assent, confidentiality, and participant welfare were addressed. Authors should also consider cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and geographic factors that may affect participation, interpretation of findings, and access to services.

23. Reporting Guidelines

Authors are encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines based on the design of the manuscript. Examples include:

• Single-case experimental design reporting guidelines

• Observational study reporting guidelines

• Systematic review and meta-analysis reporting guidelines

• Clinical trial reporting guidelines

• Qualitative research reporting guidelines

• Case report reporting guidelines

Authors should provide enough methodological detail to allow readers to evaluate the quality, relevance, and limitations of the work.

24. Image, Table, and Figure Integrity

Images, tables, graphs, and figures must accurately represent the data or concepts described in the manuscript. Authors must not manipulate visual materials in a way that misleads readers.

Previously published figures, tables, images, assessment materials, or copyrighted content may only be used with appropriate permission and citation unless the material is clearly permitted for reuse under an applicable license.

25. Post-Publication Discussion

The journal supports responsible post-publication dialogue. Readers may contact the editorial office with questions, concerns, or requests for clarification regarding published articles.

When appropriate, the journal may invite author responses, publish letters, issue corrections, or take other editorial action to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.

26. Open Access, Copyright, and Author Rights

The journal is a diamond open-access publication. There are no submission fees, publication fees, article processing charges, or reader access fees.

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. Published articles are made freely available online. The journal may publish articles under a Creative Commons license selected by the publisher, such as the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, unless otherwise stated.

27. Contact for Ethics Concerns

Questions, appeals, complaints, correction requests, or concerns about publication ethics should be directed to the journal editorial office:

Global Journal of Behavior Analysis and Intervention
Published by Operant Edge Behavioral Institute
Email: jnowicki@bmfinc.org
Website: https://www.oebehavioral.com/journal

The journal invites the following types of submissions:

• Empirical research articles

• Single-case design studies

• Brief reports

• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

• Conceptual and theoretical articles

• Practice guidelines

• Assessment and measurement studies

• Program evaluations

• International practice reports

• Case studies

• Commentaries and letters to the editor

The journal welcomes submissions related to, but not limited to:

• Applied behavior analysis and evidence-based intervention

• Autism and developmental disabilities

• Behavioral assessment and treatment planning

• Functional behavior assessment and function-based intervention

• Skill acquisition and adaptive functioning

• Communication, social skills, independence, and self-management

• Caregiver training and parent-mediated intervention

• Staff training, supervision, and treatment integrity

• Behavioral skills training and competency-based supervision

• School-based behavioral intervention

• Organizational behavior management

• International behavior analytic practice

• Culturally responsive service delivery

• Behavior analysis in low-resource or underserved settings

• Telehealth and remote supervision

• Ethics, consent, assent, and client dignity

• Policy, access to care, and service delivery models

• Measurement, reliability, validity, and assessment development

• Program evaluation and quality improvement

• Single-case experimental design research

• Practice-informed research and clinical innovation

Global Journal of Behavior Analysis and Intervention welcomes original manuscripts related to behavior analysis, applied intervention, behavioral assessment, autism and developmental disabilities, education, supervision, organizational behavior management, ethics, policy, and international service delivery.

The journal accepts empirical research articles, single-case design studies, brief reports, systematic reviews, conceptual articles, practice guidelines, assessment and measurement studies, program evaluations, international practice reports, case studies, commentaries, and letters.

Manuscripts should follow APA 7th edition style and should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. Authors should submit a separate title page and a de-identified manuscript for double-anonymous peer review.

All submissions must include an abstract, keywords, references, conflict of interest statement, funding statement, ethics statement, and data availability statement when applicable. Manuscripts involving human participants, clinical records, educational records, or organizational data must describe appropriate ethical review, consent, assent, de-identification, or exemption procedures.

The journal does not charge submission fees or publication fees. Articles are freely available to readers.

Submissions should be original, unpublished, and not under review by another journal. Manuscripts are initially screened by the editorial team and, when appropriate, sent for double-anonymous peer review by qualified reviewers.

Authors are encouraged to provide sufficient procedural detail to support replication, including clear descriptions of participants, settings, target behaviors, measurement systems, intervention procedures, interobserver agreement, treatment integrity, social validity, and data analysis methods when applicable.

Fees:

Submission Fee: None
Publication Fee: None
Reader Access: Free
Article Processing Charges: None

This supports the journal’s international access mission.

Manuscripts should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.

Submissions should follow APA 7th edition style and should include:

• Title page

• De-identified manuscript for peer review

• Abstract

• Keywords

• Main text

• References

• Tables and figures, if applicable

• Ethics statement

• Conflict of interest statement

• Funding statement

• Data availability statement, when applicable

• AI use statement, when applicable

Manuscripts involving human participants, clinical records, educational records, staff data, caregiver reports, or organizational data must include an ethics statement describing IRB approval, ethics committee review, exemption, waiver, de-identification procedures, program evaluation status, or other applicable ethical safeguards.

Submissions will undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that fit the journal’s scope and meet basic scholarly and ethical standards will be sent for peer review.

The journal uses a double-anonymous peer-review process whenever possible. Manuscripts are typically reviewed by two or more qualified reviewers with expertise related to the submission topic.

Editorial decisions may include:

• Accept

• Accept with minor revisions

• Major revision

• Revise and resubmit

• Reject

Peer Review Process:

• Initial editorial screening

• Scope and ethics check

• Plagiarism check

• Double-anonymous peer review by at least two reviewers

• Editorial decision

• Revision, if needed

• Final acceptance

• Copyediting/proofing

• Online publication

Recommended Length

Empirical Research Article

4,000–8,000 words

Brief Report

2,000–4,000 words

Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis

5,000–10,000 words

Conceptual Article

4,000–8,000 words

Practice Guideline

3,000–7,000 words

Assessment or Measurement Study

4,000–8,000 words

International Practice Report

2,500–6,000 words

Case Study

2,500–5,000 words

Commentary or Letter

1,000–3,000 words

Word counts exclude references, tables, and figures.

Authors should submit manuscripts through:

Email: jnowicki@oebehavioral.com

Please include the following files:

1. Title page

2. De-identified manuscript

3. Tables and figures, if separate

4. Supplemental materials, if applicable

5. Cover letter

The cover letter should confirm that the manuscript is original, not under review elsewhere, approved by all authors, and compliant with applicable ethical and professional standards.

Inaugural Issue Invitation

The launch of the Global Journal of Behavior Analysis and Intervention represents an opportunity to expand access to rigorous, ethical, and practice-relevant behavior analytic scholarship across international communities.

We especially encourage submissions from international authors, early-career researchers, practitioners, interdisciplinary teams, and professionals working in underrepresented or low-resource settings.

The journal welcomes work that is scientifically sound, clinically useful, culturally responsive, and committed to improving meaningful outcomes for individuals, families, organizations, and communities.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jane Paul, PhD, BCBA-D, Excella Developmental Services

Associate Editor: Jonathan Nowicki, MA, BCBA, Behavior Management Foundation, Inc.

Associate Editor: Dr. Shane Calhoun, PsyD, Calhoun Counseling

Associate Editor: Leah Griffith, MA, BCBA, Inspired Behavior Solutions

Associate Editor: Roshika Nowicki, MA, BCBA, Behavior Management Foundation, Inc.

Publisher: Operant Edge Behavioral Institute

Publisher Address: 3904 Lakeside Dr. Modesto, CA

Country of Publication: United States and Globally

Journal Contact: Editorial Office, Jonathan Nowicki.

Email: jnowicki@oebehavioral.com