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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 48 / 286 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 65 / 220 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 48 of 286) and Q2 in Psychology (all) (rank 65 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pacific Rim 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.887, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 31.
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 1834-4909.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 3.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 49. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (47.7%), Hong Kong SAR China (9.4%) and United States (6.2%).
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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