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Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1321-8719Verify ISSN ↗1934-1687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 205 / 1162 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 37 / 118 | 69th | Q2 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 89 / 209 | 57th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 290 / 580 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 205 of 1162), Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 37 of 118) and Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 89 of 209), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.522, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1321-8719 and its online ISSN is 1934-1687.
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.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #200 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 102. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (34.4%), United States (16.9%) and United Kingdom (14.1%).
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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