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International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2364-5040Verify ISSN ↗2364-5059Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 172 / 744 | 76th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 128 / 258 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2016), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 172 of 744) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 128 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology 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 3.5, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.769, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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.
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2364-5040 and its online ISSN is 2364-5059.
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.
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 3.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 71. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.8%), Germany (7%) and Türkiye (5.5%).
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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