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Journal rankings · indicator year 2001

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Field ranking · 2001

Psychology journal rankings 2001

548 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences

Psychology has 548 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Reading Research Quarterly, and Psychological Bulletin.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.

548
18% of Social Sciences
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.68+0.01 vs 2000
This fieldAll 0.68World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

7%
All fields: 12%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,595
Median positive listed APC: $3,595 among 266 journals. Another 2 list $0; 280 have no known price. All fields: $3,560.

Subfields in Psychology (7)

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548 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Psychology ranking, 2001

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001.

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1Journal of Cognitive PsychotherapySpringer Nature · United States
7.58Q17.66 0.76 up from 2000900%—
2Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States
4.79Q12.57 0.10 down from 20008415%$3,530
3Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States
4.59Q14.84 0.05 down from 20002452%—
4Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
4.16Q13.02 0.05 up from 20001,0683%—
5Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
4.12Q13.54 0.51 down from 20006632%—
6American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States
4.05Q12.37 0.08 up from 20001,0814%—
7Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
3.75Q12.96 0.63 up from 2000943%$4,330
8Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
3.70Q13.41 0.48 down from 20001228%$3,550
9Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom
3.25Q13.21 0.87 up from 200051012%$4,320
10Journal of Clinical Child PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States
3.21Q12.02 1.42 down from 2000153——
11Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
3.04Q13.83 0.11 down from 20003328%$3,550
12Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States
3.03Q11.55 0.29 down from 2000814%—
13American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States
2.97Q13.81 0.35 down from 20001,7353%—
14Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States
2.97Q12.81 0.69 up from 20001430%$5,270
15Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.91Q12.32 0.22 down from 2000416%$3,990
16Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.91Q12.21 0.55 up from 20001302%—
2.91Q11.81 0.81 up from 2000730%$3,650
18Applied and Preventive PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.78Q12.53 0.55 up from 2000570%—
19Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.74Q12.65 0.23 up from 20002889%$3,580
2.71Q12.11 0.52 up from 2000765%—
21Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States
2.71Q11.54 0.55 down from 20006612%$3,400
22Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.59Q12.40 0.24 down from 20004590%—
23Journal of Anxiety DisordersElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.57Q12.25 0.12 up from 20001213%$4,650
24Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States
2.57Q11.74 0.36 down from 20001167%$3,650
25Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.52Q12.18 0.22 up from 20006432%—
26Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.51Q11.85 0.61 up from 2000800%$4,720
27Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom
2.50Q12.10 1.13 up from 2000580%$3,120
28Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.50Q12.63 0.22 up from 200013010%$2,990
29Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States
2.45Q11.00 0.54 down from 20001205%$3,900
2.40Q12.19 0.38 up from 20001539%$3,530
31Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States
2.32Q11.94 0.18 down from 2000490%—
32Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.28Q13.02 0.40 up from 20003995%—
33Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.24Q11.70 0.25 down from 20001662%—
34Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands
2.24Q11.83 0.41 down from 20001815%$3,120
35Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States
2.23Q11.92 0.43 up from 2000992%—
36The British Journal of PsychiatryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.22Q12.60 0.66 down from 20001,03799%$4,920
2.21Q11.82 0.36 down from 20005189%$4,530
38Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States
2.20Q11.93 0.25 up from 2000480%$4,330
39Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States
2.18Q11.79 0.17 down from 200013113%$3,780
2.15Q12.48 0.86 up from 20005910%$3,760
2.14Q13.20 0.76 down from 200057389%—
42Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.14Q11.69 0.10 up from 20001404%$3,600
43InfancyWiley · United States
2.14Q11.55no 2000 value313%$3,300—
2.11Q11.35 0.30 up from 200011613%$3,760
45Philosophia MathematicaOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.10Q10.41 0.28 up from 2000750%$4,533
46American Journal of OrthopsychiatryAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.10Q11.33 0.31 down from 20001833%—
47International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States
2.10Q11.00no change653%—
48Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands
2.08Q11.43 0.38 up from 20001923%$3,150
2.03Q11.96 0.57 up from 20004996%$4,300
50Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.03Q11.81 0.35 up from 2000950%—

Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

157 additional Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
548
Window papers (baseline)
108,714 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
Median OJR
0.68 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
Rising journals (2025)
68Comparison-group list (68)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5195485775906096276506777137367597898128368729149539761,0001,0081,0321,0321,0441,0491,0361,032
Window papers (baseline)100,368108,714116,356126,019132,361141,328150,104163,997178,881196,566212,190230,053245,061259,850274,026290,061308,630323,270336,144346,025361,777394,757437,922469,605479,050491,558
Median OJR0.670.680.690.730.760.770.790.830.8670.900.9200.941.01781.01831.0171.011.0031.0010.980.930.950.850.8720.8690.9150.9249
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 3.9%730 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 0.819 per 1,000625 journals
Output growthMedian: -1.9%962 journals
Open access shareMedian: 55.7%1,032 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390484 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 21.7%951 journals
Review shareMedian: 2.1%1,032 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.961,023 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 36.5%1,032 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 45.5%1,030 journals

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.