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Psychology of Leaders and Leadership is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2769-6863Verify ISSN ↗2769-6898Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 127 / 235 | 46th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 185 / 315 | 41st | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 155 / 258 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
Psychology of Leaders and Leadership is Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 127 of 235), Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 185 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 155 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology of Leaders and Leadership 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.482, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Psychology of Leaders and Leadership is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2769-6863 and its online ISSN is 2769-6898.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology of Leaders and Leadership has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Psychology of Leaders and Leadership published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 20. 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.
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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