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Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0021-8855Verify ISSN ↗1938-3703Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 19 / 891 | 97th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 153 / 1530 | 90th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 65 / 258 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 19 of 891), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 153 of 1530) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 65 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.313, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0021-8855 and its online ISSN is 1938-3703.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis has an h-index of 200 and a 2-year mean of 2.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 139. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (91.8%), Canada (2.4%) and New Zealand (1.5%). 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 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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