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Imagination, Cognition and Personality is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0276-2366Verify ISSN ↗1541-4477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 55 / 118 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 111 / 169 | 34th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 86 / 129 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality is Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 55 of 118), Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 111 of 169) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 86 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality 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 2.4, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.395, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0276-2366 and its online ISSN is 1541-4477.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Imagination, Cognition and Personality published 36 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.2%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Germany (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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