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Social Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. Published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH.
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ISSN 1864-9335Verify ISSN ↗2151-2590Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 149 / 692 | 78th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 478 / 1530 | 68th | Q2 |
| Psychology (all) | 118 / 220 | 46th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 175 / 315 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2006), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Social Psychology is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 149 of 692), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 478 of 1530) and Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 118 of 220), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Psychology 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.560, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Social Psychology is published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1864-9335 and its online ISSN is 2151-2590.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Psychology has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Social Psychology published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 42. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (18.7%), United States (17.8%) and Poland (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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