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Cognitive Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), formerly ABDC A, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0010-0285Verify ISSN ↗1095-5623Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 64 / 1221 | 94th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 35 / 169 | 79th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 87 / 380 | 77th | Q1 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 20 / 77 | 74th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 202 / 570 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Cognitive Psychology is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 64 of 1221), Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 35 of 169) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 87 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cognitive Psychology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.732, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 141.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
Cognitive Psychology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0010-0285 and its online ISSN is 1095-5623.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognitive Psychology has an h-index of 280 and a 2-year mean of 8.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Cognitive Psychology published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 58. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.8%), China (14.2%) and United Kingdom (12.8%).
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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