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Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 2589-9791Verify ISSN ↗2666-3473Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$1,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 122 / 314 | 61st | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 271 / 580 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 39 / 77 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 122 of 314), Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 271 of 580) and Q2 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 39 of 77), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.693, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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 Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 2589-9791 and its online ISSN is 2666-3473.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy published 47 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (15.2%), United Kingdom (10.7%) and France (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (3.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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