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Social Psychological Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by PsychOpen.
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ISSN 1896-1800Verify ISSN ↗2569-653XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: PsychOpen
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 173 / 315 | 45th | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 148 / 258 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Social Psychological Bulletin is Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 173 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 148 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Psychological Bulletin 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.698, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Social Psychological Bulletin is published by PsychOpen. Its print ISSN is 1896-1800 and its online ISSN is 2569-653X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Social Psychological Bulletin has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Social Psychological Bulletin published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 39. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (22.1%), Poland (15.3%) and United States (11.2%).
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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