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Group Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 1089-2699Verify ISSN ↗1930-7802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 110 / 315 | 65th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 107 / 258 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Group Dynamics is Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 110 of 315) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 107 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Group Dynamics 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.582, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 83.
Group Dynamics is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1089-2699 and its online ISSN is 1930-7802.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Group Dynamics has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #247 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Group Dynamics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 48. 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 10 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (45%), United Kingdom (25%) and Australia (15%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 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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