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Journal of General Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0022-1309Verify ISSN ↗1940-0888Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 83 / 692 | 88th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 31 / 233 | 86th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 55 / 169 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1956–present (also 1928–1954), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of General Psychology is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 83 of 692), Q1 in Gender Studies (rank 31 of 233) and Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 55 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of General 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.623, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of General Psychology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-1309 and its online ISSN is 1940-0888.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of General Psychology has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 1.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of General Psychology published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 46. 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 China (36.9%), United States (12.6%) and Spain (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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