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The Journal of Parapsychology (JP) is the longest-running specialist academic journal in Parapsychology, publishing peer-reviewed research on psi phenomena — including Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, and psychokinesis — alongside spontaneous case reports, theoretical discussion, methodological work, and historical scholarship.
Founding
The journal was established in April 1937 by J. B. Rhine and William McDougall at Duke University, growing directly out of the experimental ESP research programme at Rhine's Parapsychology Laboratory. Rhine had discussed the idea in correspondence during 1936 and 1937, arguing that a dedicated periodical would help standardise and lend academic credibility to the emerging field — a need sharpened by mainstream psychology journals' reluctance to publish ESP research reports. In its first decade, the journal was heavily shaped by Rhine's own priorities: an analysis of articles published between 1937 and 1946 found ESP accounted for 52% of its content, compared with only 11% in the rival Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research over the same period.
Editorship and scope
The journal was edited for many years by Rhine's wife, Louisa E. Rhine, alongside Dorothy H. Pope. Its stated scope covers original experimental results in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, along with literature reviews, criticism of published work, theoretical and philosophical discussion, and new methods of statistical analysis. It also carries abstracts of papers presented at the Parapsychological Association's annual convention.
Publication today
The journal remains a publication of the Rhine Research Center and its Parapsychology Press, based in Durham, North Carolina — the institutional continuation of Rhine's original Duke laboratory. It is published biannually, indexed in PsycINFO, and continues to apply peer review as its central standard, in keeping with Rhine's original founding aim of academic credibility for the field.