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Motivation Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2333-8113Verify ISSN ↗2333-8121Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 89 / 380 | 76th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 76 / 258 | 70th | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 82 / 241 | 66th | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 65 / 151 | 57th | Q2 |
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 5.3.
Motivation Science is Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 89 of 380), Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 76 of 258) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 82 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Motivation Science 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.283, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Motivation Science is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2333-8113 and its online ISSN is 2333-8121.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Motivation Science has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Motivation Science published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 132. 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.
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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