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Journal of Media Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SSCI. Published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH.
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ISSN 1864-1105Verify ISSN ↗2151-2388Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 87 / 541 | 84th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 103 / 315 | 67th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 94 / 258 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Media Psychology is Q1 in Communication (rank 87 of 541), Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 103 of 315) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 94 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Media 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.725, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
Journal of Media Psychology is published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1864-1105 and its online ISSN is 2151-2388.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Media Psychology has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Media Psychology published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 51. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.4%), Germany (11.7%) and Netherlands (6.4%).
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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