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Psychology of Violence is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2152-081XVerify ISSN ↗2152-0828Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 100 / 387 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 116 / 315 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 114 / 258 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Psychology of Violence is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 100 of 387), Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 116 of 315) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 114 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology of Violence 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.772, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
Psychology of Violence is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2152-081X and its online ISSN is 2152-0828.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology of Violence has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #183 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Psychology of Violence published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 118. 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 13 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (88.5%), Spain (7.7%) and South Africa (3.8%). 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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