Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Psychology journal rankings 2003
590 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 590 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are Second language Research, Journal of Personality, and Child Development.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
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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. | 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.98Q1 | 2.46 2.19 up from 2002 | 95 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
2Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 5.86Q1 | 5.81 2.84 up from 2002 | 121 | 25% | $3,780 | ||
3Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 4.81 0.27 up from 2002 | 400 | 16% | $4,320 | ||
4Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 4.38 0.40 up from 2002 | 135 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
5Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.54Q1 | 3.43 1.01 down from 2002 | 949 | 5% | — | ||
6Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.33Q1 | 6.22 0.83 up from 2002 | 259 | 3% | — | ||
7Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.78Q1 | 2.22 0.04 down from 2002 | 79 | 5% | $3,530 | ||
8Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.60Q1 | 3.70 0.19 up from 2002 | 646 | 3% | — | ||
9Children and Youth Services ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 2.17 1.59 up from 2002 | 141 | 0% | $4,000 | ||
10Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.49Q1 | 2.68 1.21 up from 2002 | 63 | 21% | $3,400 | ||
11American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.46Q1 | 1.33 1.09 down from 2002 | 1,178 | 5% | — | ||
12Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.44Q1 | 3.84 0.63 up from 2002 | 167 | 2% | $5,270 | ||
13Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.31Q1 | 2.46 0.40 up from 2002 | 128 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
14Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.38 1.22 down from 2002 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
15Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 1.68 0.72 down from 2002 | 98 | 4% | $4,720 | ||
16Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 1.04 0.38 down from 2002 | 113 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
17British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 1.70 0.10 up from 2002 | 106 | 8% | $3,760 | ||
18Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 2.74 0.28 down from 2002 | 115 | 0% | $4,330 | ||
19Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 3.18Q1 | 2.41 1.14 up from 2002 | 114 | 1% | $3,330 | ||
20Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 4.78 1.09 up from 2002 | 350 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
21Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.10Q1 | 3.06 0.34 down from 2002 | 140 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
22Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.02Q1 | 2.32 0.01 down from 2002 | 447 | 6% | — | ||
23Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.00Q1 | 2.53 1.23 up from 2002 | 173 | 4% | — | ||
24Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.03 0.45 down from 2002 | 331 | 4% | — | ||
25American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.39 0.49 up from 2002 | 2,171 | 4% | — | ||
26Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.89Q1 | 3.87 0.98 up from 2002 | 430 | 8% | — | ||
27Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 2.82Q1 | 2.14 1.30 down from 2002 | 149 | 2% | $3,530 | ||
28Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.80Q1 | 1.77 1.32 down from 2002 | 119 | 14% | — | ||
29Journal of Social and Clinical PsychologyGuilford Press · United States | 2.76Q1 | 1.52 0.64 down from 2002 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
30Prevention ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 2.45 0.37 up from 2002 | 59 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
31Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States | 2.71Q1 | 2.25 0.20 up from 2002 | 123 | 7% | — | ||
32Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 2.70Q1 | 2.11 0.48 up from 2002 | 70 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
33Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 1.97 2.37 down from 2002 | 44 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
34Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 2.09 0.34 down from 2002 | 194 | 3% | $3,120 | ||
35Journal of Clinical Child PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.69Q1 | —no 2002 value | 56 | — | — | ||
36Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.27 0.13 up from 2002 | 46 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.65 0.40 up from 2002 | 870 | 24% | $3,710 | ||
38Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 2.99 0.09 down from 2002 | 353 | 6% | $3,580 | ||
39Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.40 0.51 up from 2002 | 282 | 6% | — | ||
40Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 1.49 0.08 down from 2002 | 66 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
41Psychiatric Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.29 0.35 down from 2002 | 163 | 2% | $2,900 | ||
42European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.70 1.58 up from 2002 | 132 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
43International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.38 0.14 up from 2002 | 437 | 14% | $4,300 | ||
44Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.34Q1 | 1.31 0.07 up from 2002 | 111 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
45Personality and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.70 1.26 up from 2002 | 715 | 4% | $4,170 | ||
46Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.81 0.71 up from 2002 | 47 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
47Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 1.59 0.15 up from 2002 | 171 | 4% | $3,150 | ||
48Journal of School HealthWiley · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.72 0.04 up from 2002 | 208 | 3% | $3,570 | ||
49Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 2.99 0.51 up from 2002 | 395 | 15% | $4,530 | ||
50The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.00 0.65 up from 2002 | 62 | 0% | — |
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% 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 2000–2002, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 590
- Window papers (baseline)
- 126,019 +25.6% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.73 +9.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 519 | 548 | 577 | 590 | 609 | 627 | 650 | 677 | 713 | 736 | 759 | 789 | 812 | 836 | 872 | 914 | 953 | 976 | 1,000 | 1,008 | 1,032 | 1,032 | 1,044 | 1,049 | 1,036 | 1,032 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 100,368 | 108,714 | 116,356 | 126,019 | 132,361 | 141,328 | 150,104 | 163,997 | 178,881 | 196,566 | 212,190 | 230,053 | 245,061 | 259,850 | 274,026 | 290,061 | 308,630 | 323,270 | 336,144 | 346,025 | 361,777 | 394,757 | 437,922 | 469,605 | 479,050 | 491,558 | |
| Median OJR | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.83 | 0.867 | 0.90 | 0.920 | 0.94 | 1.0178 | 1.0183 | 1.017 | 1.01 | 1.003 | 1.001 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.872 | 0.869 | 0.915 | 0.9249 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.9% | 730 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.819 per 1,000 | 625 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.9% | 962 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 55.7% | 1,032 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 484 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 21.7% | 951 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.1% | 1,032 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.96 | 1,023 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 36.5% | 1,032 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 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.