American Psychological Association

What it reported doing in 2024

Publishing office in 2024, the apa journals program published more than 63,480 pages of content representing more than 5,190 articles in 515 journal issues. During 2024, apa journals signed two new journals to its portfolio. Starting in 2025, apa will publish journal of pediatric neuropsychology in collaboration with the american academy of pediatric neuropsychology. Starting in 2026, apa will publish the new educational psychology for policy and practice in collaboration with division 15, educational psychology. By the end of 2024, psycarticles, the electronic database product containing full-text journal content, contained over 244,386 article records, dating back to 1894. More than 208,370 records were released into the psycinfo database in 2024, bringing the total number of records in the database to more than 5.6 million, and the total number of cited references in the database to almost 165 million. Psycinfo also includes the metadata records for the psycarticles and psycbooks databases. The number of journals covered by psycinfo at the end of 2024 was 2,351 - 54 new journals were added, and 42 journals were dropped primarily due to problems receiving the journal or to journal's ceasing publication. Psyctests, the research database on psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, grew by 33,355 new records totaling more than 74,862 records at the end of 2024. In 2024, psycnet, the delivery platform for apa's scholarly content, hosted more than 2.5 million user sessions, with more than 72 million requests for apa journal articles, books & chapters resolved to psycnet in the past year from links followed by researchers, students, clinicians, and general public on google scholar, pubmed, researchgate, social media, and various discovery services. During 2024, apa published 46 scholarly and trade titles, one three-volume reference handbook (apa handbook of health psychology) and 20 magination press (apa's children's book imprint) titles. In addition, apa books released titles to proquest ebook central, ebsco, overdrive, redshelf, and vitalsource, jstor, and amazon kindle. Magination press books are found on online reading platform epic! (129 digital books), as ebooks on amazon kindle and available as digital copies on various online bookshops and library platforms such as overdrive, b&n, or bookshop.org (233 books). In 2024, magination press relaunched the bestselling what to do series -- two books from the original five published in 2005 (what to do when you worry too much and what to do when your temper flares), two popular books from the past few years (what to do when mistakes make you quake and what to do when the news scares you), plus two brand new books (what to do when you panic and what to do when climate change scares you. As of december 2024, more than 2 million copies of the 7th edition of the publication manual have been sold, inclusive of all ebook and print formats. The apa style team also released electronic versions of the publication manual and the concise guide to apa style on bookshare that were optimized for accessibility to provide people with print disabilities global equitable access to these resources. Apa released 10 individual video titles in both dvd and in streaming format (through our distributors), and added 23 videos to apa psyctherapy, apa's database of streaming psychotherapy videos. At the end of 2024, the psycbooks database contained 74,862 book and chapter records. Academic writer institutional licenses are actively being sold both in the u.s. And internationally, and new features released over the past year catered to this market. For example, quizzes were added to all quick guides and tutorials. Certificates of completion were also launched, allowing students to track their lesson progress and share it with instructors. Psyclearn plus is an online delivery platform for course materials in undergraduate psychology. It employs evidence-based learning science prin

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
• Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 59.5%; rating input score 60; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings