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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SSCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2152-2715Verify ISSN ↗2152-2723Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 48 / 541 | 91st | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 38 / 315 | 88th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 48 / 258 | 81st | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 244 / 1022 | 76th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 69 / 196 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is Q1 in Communication (rank 48 of 541), Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 38 of 315) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 48 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.121, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 198.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2152-2715 and its online ISSN is 2152-2723.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking has an h-index of 161 and a 2-year mean of 4.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking published 114 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 180. 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 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.1%), United States (15.9%) and Italy (14.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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