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Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.
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ISSN 2075-3470Verify ISSN ↗2311-9446Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 272 / 387 | 29th | Q3 |
| Clinical Psychology | 231 / 314 | 26th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 295 / 380 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy is Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 272 of 387), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 231 of 314) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 295 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Counseling Psychology and 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.206, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy is published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Its print ISSN is 2075-3470 and its online ISSN is 2311-9446.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 55. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Russia (84%), Belarus (4.2%) and Armenia (2.6%). 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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