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Cognitive Therapy and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0147-5916Verify ISSN ↗1573-2819Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 86 / 314 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 49 / 169 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Cognitive Therapy and Research is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 86 of 314) and Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 49 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive Therapy and Research 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.105, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 126.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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 Therapy and Research is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0147-5916 and its online ISSN is 1573-2819.
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.
Cognitive Therapy and Research has an h-index of 177 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Cognitive Therapy and Research published 137 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.7%), Germany (10.6%) and China (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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