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Affective Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2662-2041Verify ISSN ↗2662-205XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 7 / 77 | 91st | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 33 / 314 | 89th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 36 / 315 | 88th | Q1 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 11 / 93 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Affective Science is Q1 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 7 of 77), Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 33 of 314) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 36 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Affective Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.625, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Affective Science is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2662-2041 and its online ISSN is 2662-205X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Affective Science has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 77 Scopus journals in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.
Affective Science published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 85. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.5%), Israel (5.3%) and Australia (4.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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