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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2329-8456Verify ISSN ↗2329-8464Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 373 / 736 | 49th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 115 / 169 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 373 of 736) and Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 115 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.479, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 82.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2329-8456 and its online ISSN is 2329-8464.
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 Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #567 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 57. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.4%), United Kingdom (19.4%) and Australia (13.8%).
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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