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Humanistic Psychologist is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7). Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0887-3267Verify ISSN ↗1547-3333Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 224 / 315 | 29th | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 185 / 258 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Humanistic Psychologist is Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 224 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 185 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Humanistic Psychologist is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.468, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Humanistic Psychologist is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0887-3267 and its online ISSN is 1547-3333.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Humanistic Psychologist has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Humanistic Psychologist published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 56. 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.
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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