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Discover Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Discover.
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ISSN 2731-4537Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Discover
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 68 / 118 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 398 / 580 | 31st | Q3 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 57 / 74 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 78 / 93 | 16th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Discover Psychology is Q3 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 68 of 118), Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 398 of 580) and Q4 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 57 of 74), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.475, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,590 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.
Discover Psychology is published by Discover. Its ISSN is 2731-4537.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Psychology has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Discover Psychology published 230 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from India (15.5%), China (8.8%) and Iran (7.9%).
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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