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American Psychologist is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), ABDC A*, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0003-066XVerify ISSN ↗1935-990XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (all) | 19 / 220 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present (also 1946–1954), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
American Psychologist is Q1 in Psychology (all) (rank 19 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
American Psychologist 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.130, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 294.
American Psychologist is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0003-066X and its online ISSN is 1935-990X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Psychologist has an h-index of 507 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 217 Scopus journals in Psychology (all).
American Psychologist published 202 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 263. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (69.6%), China (4.9%) and United Kingdom (3.5%). 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 1 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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