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Motivation and Emotion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0146-7239Verify ISSN ↗1573-6644Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 43 / 169 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 95 / 315 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Motivation and Emotion is Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 43 of 169) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 95 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Motivation and Emotion 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.038, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 115.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Motivation and Emotion is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0146-7239 and its online ISSN is 1573-6644.
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 rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Motivation and Emotion has an h-index of 155 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Motivation and Emotion published 87 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.7%), United States (16.5%) and Canada (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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