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Cultural-Historical Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.
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ISSN 1816-5435Verify ISSN ↗2224-8935Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 287 / 1434 | 80th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 77 / 118 | 35th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 283 / 380 | 25th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 239 / 315 | 24th | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 198 / 258 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Cultural-Historical Psychology is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 287 of 1434), Q3 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 77 of 118) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 283 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cultural-Historical Psychology 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.346, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Cultural-Historical Psychology is published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Its print ISSN is 1816-5435 and its online ISSN is 2224-8935.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cultural-Historical Psychology has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Cultural-Historical Psychology published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 70. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (73.8%), South Africa (5%) and Brazil (2.9%). 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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