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History of Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1093-4510Verify ISSN ↗1939-0610Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 200 / 1936 | 89th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 154 / 220 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
History of Psychology is Q1 in History (rank 200 of 1936) and Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 154 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
History of Psychology 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
History of Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1093-4510 and its online ISSN is 1939-0610.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
History of Psychology has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #473 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
History of Psychology published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 49. 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 84 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.8%), China (6.5%) and United Kingdom (6%).
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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