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Psychology and Aging is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0882-7974Verify ISSN ↗1939-1498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 61 / 315 | 80th | Q1 |
| Geriatrics and Gerontology | 35 / 123 | 71st | Q2 |
| Aging | 24 / 42 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Psychology and Aging is Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 61 of 315), Q2 in Geriatrics and Gerontology (rank 35 of 123) and Q3 in Aging (rank 24 of 42), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology and Aging 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.233, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 186.
Psychology and Aging is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0882-7974 and its online ISSN is 1939-1498.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology and Aging has an h-index of 252 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Psychology and Aging published 145 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 176. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.3%), Germany (12.5%) and Canada (9.2%).
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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