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Counselling Psychology Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0951-5070Verify ISSN ↗1469-3674Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 110 / 314 | 65th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 247 / 580 | 57th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 118 / 258 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 110 of 314), Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 247 of 580) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 118 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.856, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0951-5070 and its online ISSN is 1469-3674.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 52. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (45.2%), United Kingdom (9.8%) and Canada (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (5.5 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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