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SA Journal of Industrial Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 0258-5200Verify ISSN ↗2071-0763Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 182 / 315 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 153 / 258 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology is Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 182 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 153 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology 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 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.347, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$699 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0258-5200 and its online ISSN is 2071-0763.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 2.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 48. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (82.7%), Indonesia (8.7%) and Norway (2%). 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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