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Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0894-9085Verify ISSN ↗1573-6563Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 111 / 314 | 64th | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 67 / 169 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 111 of 314) and Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 67 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.728, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0894-9085 and its online ISSN is 1573-6563.
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 Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy published 61 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (37.1%), United States (7.3%) and Romania (7%).
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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