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Psychological Methods is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23.4), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 1082-989XVerify ISSN ↗1939-1463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 2 / 118 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.4.
Psychological Methods is Q1 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 118), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychological Methods 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 23.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.769, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 204.
Psychological Methods is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1082-989X and its online ISSN is 1939-1463.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychological Methods has an h-index of 234 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Psychological Methods published 136 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 141. 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 United States (42.8%), Germany (10.1%) and Netherlands (7%).
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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