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Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SSCI. Published by Springer Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0889-8391Verify ISSN ↗1938-887XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 208 / 314 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 404 / 580 | 30th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 126 / 169 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 208 of 314), Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 404 of 580) and Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 126 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is published by Springer Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0889-8391 and its online ISSN is 1938-887X.
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 Psychotherapy has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #192 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 30. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.7%), Türkiye (5.1%) and Canada (4.1%). 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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