About the journal

Journal of ADHD And Care

Journal of ADHD And Care publishes peer-reviewed research on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and on the care that supports the people living with it. Its remit runs the length of the life course — childhood, adolescence, and adult life — and across the clinical, educational, occupational, and family settings where that care is given.

ISSN 3066-8042 · Open access · Published by Open Access Pub · Articles licensed CC BY 4.0

Childhood

Recognition, learning support, and the daily routines families build.

Adolescence

Transitions, self-management, and the academic and social context around them.

Adulthood

Work, health, and everyday decision-making.

Later adulthood

Aging with ADHD, and care that stays with the person.

The journal takes questions at every stage of this course, and research is welcome at each of them.

Why this journal exists

Attention, executive function, and reward processing are studied in depth. So is the practical work of supporting a person who lives with ADHD — in families, classrooms, clinics, and workplaces. Journal of ADHD And Care exists to hold both in one scholarly record, so that a finding about mechanism can be read alongside the evidence for what helps.

That pairing is the journal’s editorial responsibility. Measurement without context is difficult to act on; support without evidence is difficult to defend. The journal asks each manuscript to be clear about which of the two it is offering, and to be rigorous on its own terms.

The journal’s name carries two obligations. Both are in scope.

ADHD and the care that surrounds it are treated as one field, read across the life course.

What belongs here

The remit follows the journal’s full title. Work is in scope when it advances understanding of ADHD, or when it strengthens the evidence for the care that surrounds it. Basic, applied, methodological, and clinical studies are each read against the evidence their own claims require.

Attention and executive function

Sustained and selective attention, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning, and organization.

Cognitive processes and mechanisms

Working memory, response inhibition, delay aversion, temporal processing, reward sensitivity, and decision-making.

Measurement and assessment

Development and validation of rating scales, observation protocols, performance-based tests, and digital phenotyping methods.

Developmental trajectories

Longitudinal change, symptom persistence and remission, and lifespan developmental models.

Care, support, and intervention

Behavioral, educational, occupational, and family-directed support, and how it is delivered and sustained in practice.

Everyday and social context

Peer relationships, emotion regulation, family interaction, classroom and workplace functioning, and situational variability.

Neurocognitive correlates

Brain-behavior relationships, neuropsychological test profiles, and computational accounts of behavioral findings.

Co-occurring conditions and heterogeneity

Profiles across presentations, and overlap with learning, mood, anxiety, conduct-related, and substance-related difficulties.

The published archive illustrates this remit; the journal’s title sets the field, and fit turns on a substantive contribution about ADHD or ADHD-related care rather than the studied population alone. The full scope statement, with its boundary, is set out in Aims and Scope.

The journal’s approach

Care and evidence, read together

ADHD research reaches people through decisions made by clinicians, teachers, employers, and families. The journal edits with that route in mind, and asks each manuscript to be precise about what its evidence can carry.

Relevance is judged by the question

A study earns its place by the question it answers and the rigor with which it answers it. Basic and applied work are held to the standards of their own designs.

Claims are read against their design

Association, prediction, efficacy, and clinical use each call for different evidence. Editors and reviewers weigh a manuscript’s claims against the design that produced them.

Care is a research subject

Support delivered in clinics, classrooms, workplaces, and homes is studied with the same seriousness as mechanism, and reported with the same methodological detail.

Findings describe samples

Group-level results describe the samples that produced them. The journal expects reporting that keeps that distinction visible, and language that respects the people a study describes.

Who the journal serves

The readership follows the remit: the people who produce evidence about ADHD, and the people who act on it.

01Researchers in psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, education, and the cognitive and behavioral sciences.
02Clinicians and allied health professionals who assess, treat, and support people with ADHD.
03Educators and school-based practitioners working with students across the school years.
04Occupational health, workplace, and disability-support professionals.
05Policy and service-design readers who need research they can trace to its source.

Because every article is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, each of these readers reaches the work without an institutional subscription.

Editorial responsibility

The journal states how manuscripts are reviewed, on what grounds they are decided, and what authors are asked to disclose.

Review and decisions

Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.

Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.

Editorial decisions remain independent of fees, services, memberships, and roles.

Research integrity

Studies involving people report ethics-committee or institutional review board approval, together with the consent procedures followed.

Authors disclose funding sources and any financial or institutional relationships that could bear on the work.

Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.

The complete requirements are set out in Editorial Policies and Instructions for Authors.