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Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Guilford Publications.
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ISSN 0736-7236Verify ISSN ↗1943-2771Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 223 / 314 | 29th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 241 / 315 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology is Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 223 of 314) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 241 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Social and Clinical 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.366, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 121.
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology is published by Guilford Publications. Its print ISSN is 0736-7236 and its online ISSN is 1943-2771.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 45. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.9%), Canada (10%) and Netherlands (4.6%). 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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