Research in Developmental Disabilities

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| former_names = Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, Applied Research in Mental Retardation

| abbreviation = Res. Dev. Disabil.

| discipline = Child psychiatry

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| editor = Dagmara Dimitriou

| publisher = Elsevier

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| history = 1987–present

| frequency = Bimonthly

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| impact = 3.635

| impact-year = 2021

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| ISSN = 0891-4222

| eISSN = 1873-3379

| CODEN = RDDIEF

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| website = http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-developmental-disabilities/

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Research in Developmental Disabilities is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering developmental disabilities. It was formed in 1987 by the merger of Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities and Applied Research in Mental Retardation, which were established in 1981 and 1980, respectively.{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8101119 | title=Applied research in mental retardation | work=NLM Catalog | accessdate=6 December 2014}}{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8106333 | title=Analysis and intervention in developmental disabilities | work=NLM Catalog | accessdate=6 December 2014}} It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Dagmara Dimitriou (UCL Institute of Education).

In early February of 2015, the journal's founding editor-in-chief Johnny Matson (Louisiana State University) was accused of excessively citing his own works and thereby inflating his citation counts.{{Cite news |last=Etchells |first=Pete |last2=Chambers |first2=Chris |date=2015-03-12 |title=The games we play: A troubling dark side in academic publishing |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2015/mar/12/games-we-play-troubling-dark-side-academic-publishing-matson-sigafoos-lancioni |access-date=2023-06-02 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Jump |first=Paul |date=February 25, 2015 |title=Too Much Self-Citation? Oxford professor questions LSU scholar's articles -- published in a journal he edited. |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/26/oxford-professor-questions-lsu-professors-self-citations |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=Inside Higher Ed |publisher=Times Higher Education |language=en}} An investigation by Elsevier came to the conclusion that Matson had used his position to have papers published without proper peer review that used assessment batteries developed by himself and sold through a company registered in his wife's name, failing to report this conflict of interest.{{Cite web |last=Montanari |first=Shaena |date=2023-02-02 |title=Prolific autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted |url=https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/prolific-autism-researcher-has-two-dozen-papers-retracted/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=Spectrum |publisher=Simons Foundation |language=en-US |doi=10.53053/YIME4862}} This eventually led to the retraction of 24 papers across Research in Developmental Disabilities and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, a second Elsevier journal edited by Matson. Matson was also criticized for publishing a large number of his own papers, citing his own work, in these journals. Effective March 2015 Elsevier appointed Dagmara Dimitriou as the new editor-in-chief{{Cite journal |date=2015 |title=Editorial Board |journal=Research in Developmental Disabilities |language=en |volume=135 |pages=104475 |doi=10.1016/S0891-4222(23)00053-7|doi-access=free }} and updated the journal's editorial policies.