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Journal of Counseling Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0022-0167Verify ISSN ↗1939-2168Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 54 / 314 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 59 / 315 | 81st | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 133 / 580 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1954–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Journal of Counseling Psychology is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 54 of 314), Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 59 of 315) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 133 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Counseling 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.380, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 181.
Journal of Counseling Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-0167 and its online ISSN is 1939-2168.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Counseling Psychology has an h-index of 248 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Counseling Psychology published 115 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (71.7%), Hong Kong SAR China (4.3%) and Canada (4.3%). 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. 28 retracted papers are recorded (3.6 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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