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Mindfulness is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 1868-8527Verify ISSN ↗1868-8535Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 15 / 169 | 91st | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 43 / 387 | 89th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 60 / 380 | 84th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 53 / 315 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 59 / 258 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Mindfulness is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 15 of 169), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 43 of 387) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 60 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Mindfulness 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.315, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Mindfulness is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1868-8527 and its online ISSN is 1868-8535.
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.
Mindfulness has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Mindfulness published 253 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 271. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.4%), China (17.9%) and United Kingdom (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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