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Psychology and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.
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ISSN 2222-5196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 253 / 314 | 19th | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 218 / 258 | 15th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 269 / 315 | 14th | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 150 / 169 | 11th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Psychology and Law is Q4 in Clinical Psychology (rank 253 of 314), Q4 in Applied Psychology (rank 218 of 258) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 269 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Psychology and Law is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.217, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Psychology and Law is published by Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Its ISSN is 2222-5196.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Psychology and Law has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Psychology and Law published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 73. 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 Russia (95.9%), Indonesia (1%) and Uzbekistan (1%). 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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