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Perspectives on Behavior Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2520-8969Verify ISSN ↗2520-8977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
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 | 33 / 169 | 80th | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 69 / 314 | 78th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 73 / 315 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Perspectives on Behavior Science is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 33 of 169), Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 69 of 314) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 73 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives on Behavior 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.150, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
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.
Perspectives on Behavior Science is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2520-8969 and its online ISSN is 2520-8977.
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.
Perspectives on Behavior Science has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 2.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Perspectives on Behavior Science published 61 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.9%), Brazil (6.6%) and United Kingdom (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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