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International Journal of Stress Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 1072-5245Verify ISSN ↗1573-3424Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 116 / 669 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Education | 382 / 1698 | 77th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 69 / 220 | 68th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 103 / 258 | 60th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 96 / 235 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
International Journal of Stress Management is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 116 of 669), Q1 in Education (rank 382 of 1698) and Q2 in Psychology (all) (rank 69 of 220), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Stress Management 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.813, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
International Journal of Stress Management is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1072-5245 and its online ISSN is 1573-3424.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
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.
International Journal of Stress Management has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #226 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
International Journal of Stress Management published 79 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.
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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