Psychological Review is a highly-acclaimed scientific journal that publishes review articles in the field of psychology. According to its website, "Psychological Review publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology. Preference is given to papers that advance theory, but systematic evaluation of alternative theories in a given domain will also be considered for publication. Papers devoted to surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate." It is published by APA, has an impact factor of 8,357 (as of 2003) and is commonly abbreviated as PSYCHOL REV.