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Counseling and Values is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0160-7960Verify ISSN ↗2161-007XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 253 / 760 | 66th | Q2 |
| Clinical Psychology | 268 / 314 | 14th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 288 / 315 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1973–2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Counseling and Values is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 253 of 760), Q4 in Clinical Psychology (rank 268 of 314) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 288 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Counseling and Values 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.309, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Counseling and Values is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0160-7960 and its online ISSN is 2161-007X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Counseling and Values has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 6.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Counseling and Values published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 22. 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 28 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (89.3%), China (3.6%) and Türkiye (1.8%). 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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