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Japanese Psychological Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.1), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0021-5368Verify ISSN ↗1468-5884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (all) | 111 / 220 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1958–1990, 1954–1956), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.1.
Japanese Psychological Research is Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 111 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
Japanese Psychological Research 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
Japanese Psychological Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0021-5368 and its online ISSN is 1468-5884.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japanese Psychological Research has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 217 Scopus journals in Psychology (all).
Japanese Psychological Research published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 85. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (77.7%), Türkiye (3.1%) and Taiwan (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 1 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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