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Acta Psychologica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC A, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0001-6918Verify ISSN ↗1873-6297Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 118 / 692 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 168 / 380 | 55th | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 84 / 169 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1953–present (also 1949–1951, 1941, 1939, 1936–1937), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Acta Psychologica is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 118 of 692), Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 168 of 380) and Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 84 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Psychologica is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.918, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 122.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,670 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Psychologica is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0001-6918 and its online ISSN is 1873-6297.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Psychologica has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Acta Psychologica published 1,424 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.1%), Malaysia (6.2%) and India (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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