Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1942-9681Verify ISSN ↗1942-969XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 30 / 314 | 90th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 33 / 315 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 30 of 314) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 33 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.067, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 91.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1942-9681 and its online ISSN is 1942-969X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy published 379 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (54.3%), Israel (15.8%) and China (3.6%). 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 1 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.
Comments load as you scroll here.