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American Journal of Psychotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI. Published by American Psychiatric Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0002-9564Verify ISSN ↗2575-6559Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 114 / 314 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2024 (also 1947–2016), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
American Journal of Psychotherapy is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 114 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Psychotherapy 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
American Journal of Psychotherapy is published by American Psychiatric Association. Its print ISSN is 0002-9564 and its online ISSN is 2575-6559.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Psychotherapy has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
American Journal of Psychotherapy published 49 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (66.5%), Canada (9.4%) and Israel (5.6%). 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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