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Journal of Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0022-3980Verify ISSN ↗1940-1019Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 292 / 1698 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 52 / 235 | 77th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 52 / 220 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present (also 1936–1959), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Journal of Psychology is Q1 in Education (rank 292 of 1698), Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 52 of 235) and Q1 in Psychology (all) (rank 52 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.011, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 88.
Journal of Psychology is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0022-3980 and its online ISSN is 1940-1019.
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.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Psychology has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #366 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of Psychology published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 56. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (27%), Türkiye (12.3%) and United States (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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