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Journal of Comparative Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0735-7036Verify ISSN ↗1939-2087Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 58 / 118 | 51st | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 387 / 736 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Comparative Psychology is Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 58 of 118) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 387 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Psychology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.403, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 95.
Journal of Comparative Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0735-7036 and its online ISSN is 1939-2087.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Comparative Psychology has an h-index of 138 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Journal of Comparative Psychology published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 96. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (51%), Austria (7.4%) and United Kingdom (7.3%). 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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