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Journal of Psychosocial Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 1478-6737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 233 / 1434 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 326 / 744 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 682 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 222 / 315 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 233 of 1434), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 326 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 682 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies is published by Policy Press. Its ISSN is 1478-6737.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 34. 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 90 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (54.4%), United States (13.3%) and Germany (6.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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