Corballis edited the New Zealand Journal of Psychology from 1994 to 1997. He founded the journal ''Laterality'' in 1995 and co-edited it until 2008. He also was a member of numerous editorial boards and wrote numerous reviews of scientific manuscripts submitted to scores of journals, of which 137 are recorded in Publons.

Corballis chaired University of Auckland Review Committees, including the Department of Sociology (1992)