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American Journal of Community Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0091-0562Verify ISSN ↗1573-2770Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 47 / 387 | 87th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 124 / 725 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 63 / 258 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
American Journal of Community Psychology is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 47 of 387), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 124 of 725) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 63 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Community Psychology 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.195, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 143.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,620 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.
American Journal of Community Psychology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0091-0562 and its online ISSN is 1573-2770.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Community Psychology has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
American Journal of Community Psychology published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 118. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.6%), Canada (5%) and China (4.1%). 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.
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