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Pastoral Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0031-2789Verify ISSN ↗1573-6679Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 61 / 760 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 618 / 1530 | 59th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 171 / 258 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 215 / 315 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1975–2002, 1950–1972), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.
Pastoral Psychology is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 61 of 760), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 618 of 1530) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 171 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pastoral Psychology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.411, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
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.
Pastoral Psychology is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0031-2789 and its online ISSN is 1573-6679.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pastoral Psychology has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Pastoral Psychology published 127 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.1%), Canada (10.4%) and Philippines (6.6%).
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.
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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