Brent Mallinckrodt, UT psychology professor and director of the Graduate Program in Counseling Psychology, has been selected by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate as one of 120 behavioral scientists across the country invited to attend the 2008 Science Leadership Conference. The focus of this year’s conference will be "Innovations in Knowledge Dissemination for Psychological Science."
Mallinckrodt also has been serving as the editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology since 2005. The "impact factor" for that journal is now the highest among the 54 journals in Applied Psychology tracked by the Web of Science. Impact factor is the average number of citations in the current year to articles published by a journal in the previous two years. The data are for 2006, the most recent year available.