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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-006XVerify ISSN ↗1939-2117Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 16 / 314 | 95th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 42 / 580 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 16 of 314) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 42 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.077, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 285.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-006X and its online ISSN is 1939-2117.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology has an h-index of 425 and a 2-year mean of 2.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology published 97 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 159. 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 (55.4%), Germany (8.1%) and United Kingdom (6.6%). 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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