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Journal of Cognitive Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Psychology Press Ltd.
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ISSN 2044-5911Verify ISSN ↗2044-592XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Psychology Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 148 / 692 | 78th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 105 / 169 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 148 of 692) and Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 105 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.577, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 78.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology is published by Psychology Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2044-5911 and its online ISSN is 2044-592X.
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 Cognitive Psychology has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Cognitive Psychology published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 79. 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 (18%), China (15%) and United Kingdom (12.8%).
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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