Description
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
Devoted to the development and improvement of high-quality open access measurement instruments — Free of charge for authors and readers
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (MISS) is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal for the social sciences. The journal publishes high-quality, open access measurement instruments intended for scientific use across various disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, education, political science, economics etc.) or as adaptations in local cultural contexts. Though focusing mainly on social surveys for the general population, instruments may also be relevant for the study of individual differences and useful in specific diagnostic contexts of relevance to the general population.
MISS advances social science measurement and methodology also through systematic reviews, test reviews, meeting reports, and best practice approaches related to specific tools and measurement in general. MISS expects empirical backing up of scientific claims, predominantly by a quantitative approach.
Attention
Dear Authors,
On August 15, 2026, Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (MISS) will stop new manuscript submissions. This is because ZPID has decided to discontinue PsychOpen GOLD as a publication platform. This does not mean, however, that MISS will stop existing — MISS will soon merge with Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PTAD), with all articles remaining easily findable and freely accessible.
Manuscripts that were submitted before August 15, 2026, will be processed by us. Those that are close to the publication stage will be published in the 2026 MISS volume. Those whose planned production would end in 2027 will be published in PTAD. As PTAD is an open access journal with article processing charges (APCs), the APC will be waived for all papers submitted to MISS before August 15, 2026, and accepted for publication.* We will contact the authors with active submissions at MISS to inform them about this, providing additional details on how to proceed with their submissions and about the possibility of withdrawing their manuscripts should they decide to do so.
Authors who were planning to submit their work to MISS are encouraged to consider submitting to PTAD instead.
Kind regards,
Beatrice Rammstedt
(Editor-in-Chief)
* The waiver will also apply to manuscripts belonging to the "Facet-Level Personality Measurement" article collection.
Vol. 8 (2026)
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