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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0096-3445Verify ISSN ↗1939-2222Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 11 / 169 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 29 / 220 | 87th | Q1 |
| Developmental Neuroscience | 8 / 38 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 11 of 169), Q1 in Psychology (all) (rank 29 of 220) and Q1 in Developmental Neuroscience (rank 8 of 38), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.938, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 204.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0096-3445 and its online ISSN is 1939-2222.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General has an h-index of 309 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General published 305 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 314. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (38.2%), Canada (11.5%) and Germany (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 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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