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American Journal of Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), formerly ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by University of Illinois Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0002-9556Verify ISSN ↗1939-8298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 277 / 692 | 60th | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 313 / 380 | 17th | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 149 / 169 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
American Journal of Psychology is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 277 of 692), Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 313 of 380) and Q4 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 149 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
American Journal of Psychology is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0002-9556 and its online ISSN is 1939-8298.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Psychology has an h-index of 346 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #247 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
American Journal of Psychology published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 75. 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.5%), China (9.2%) and Canada (6.7%). 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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