Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Social Psychology journal rankings 2003
119 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 119 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2002 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Motivation and Emotion.
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.
Subfields of Psychology (7)
119 ranked journals
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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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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.54Q1 | 3.43 1.01 down from 2002 | 949 | 5% | — | ||
2Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.31Q1 | 2.46 0.40 up from 2002 | 128 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
3Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.81 0.71 up from 2002 | 47 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
4Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 4.26 0.58 up from 2002 | 582 | 95% | — | ||
5Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 1.90 1.03 up from 2002 | 71 | 4% | $2,780 | ||
6Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.01Q1 | 2.05 0.17 up from 2002 | 151 | 12% | $1,500 | ||
7Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.42 0.64 up from 2002 | 68 | 4% | — | ||
8Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.08 0.07 up from 2002 | 182 | 2% | $2,900 | ||
9Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.71Q1 | 1.49 0.19 up from 2002 | 108 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
10Southern Communication JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 0.72 0.22 up from 2002 | 75 | 3% | — | ||
11Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.14 0.37 down from 2002 | 270 | 5% | $3,640 | ||
12Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.57 0.07 up from 2002 | 82 | 15% | $3,140 | ||
13Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.64Q1 | 1.09 0.12 up from 2002 | 90 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
14New Ideas in PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.09 1.37 up from 2002 | 51 | 0% | $3,600 | ||
15International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 1.89 0.75 up from 2002 | 177 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
16Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.43 0.26 up from 2002 | 80 | 3% | — | ||
17Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.66 1.03 up from 2002 | 54 | 19% | — | ||
18Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 0.48 0.25 down from 2002 | 34 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
19International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 0.88 0.09 down from 2002 | 95 | 6% | — | ||
20Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.17 0.15 up from 2002 | 275 | 8% | — | ||
21Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 0.66 0.76 down from 2002 | 47 | 4% | $3,120 | ||
22Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 1.21 0.24 up from 2002 | 125 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
23Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.44 0.80 up from 2002 | 138 | 0% | — | ||
24Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.30Q1 | 1.20 0.07 down from 2002 | 64 | 4% | — | ||
25Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.21 0.20 up from 2002 | 107 | 4% | — | ||
26Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 0.82 0.66 down from 2002 | 101 | 0% | — | ||
27Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 1.26 0.15 down from 2002 | 203 | 6% | $3,400 | ||
28The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.19 0.23 up from 2002 | 174 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
29Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.01 0.32 up from 2002 | 144 | 12% | — | ||
30Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.20Q1 | 0.75 0.01 down from 2002 | 98 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
31Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.92 0.49 down from 2002 | 163 | 12% | $3,010 | ||
32ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.46 0.08 up from 2002 | 318 | 15% | — | ||
33American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.31 0.29 up from 2002 | 210 | 7% | $4,330 | ||
34Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.13Q2 | 0.72 0.07 down from 2002 | 56 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
35Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.77no change | 77 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
36Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 0.91 0.63 down from 2002 | 68 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
37Journal of Adult DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 1.66 1.33 up from 2002 | 89 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
38Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.80 0.09 up from 2002 | 165 | 6% | $3,600 | ||
39International Journal of Aviation PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 0.78 0.30 down from 2002 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
40Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.01Q2 | 0.47 0.05 up from 2002 | 92 | 3% | — | ||
41Cognition Technology & WorkSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.98 0.51 up from 2002 | 77 | 3% | $3,390 | ||
42International Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.42 0.19 down from 2002 | 131 | 14% | $3,570 | ||
43Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 0.61 0.13 down from 2002 | 48 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
| 0.89Q2 | 0.59 0.07 down from 2002 | 50 | 0% | — | |||
45Professional School CounselingSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.96 0.03 up from 2002 | 163 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
46Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.78 0.47 up from 2002 | 213 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
47Journal of sport behaviorUnited States | 0.87Q2 | 0.63 0.36 up from 2002 | 73 | 0% | — | ||
48The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q2 | 0.79 0.18 up from 2002 | 163 | 9% | — | ||
49Team Performance ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.63 0.10 up from 2002 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
50Folia PrimatologicaBrill · Switzerland | 0.84Q2 | 1.00 0.30 up from 2002 | 133 | 10% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology325
- Social Psychology119
- Developmental and Educational Psychology88
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology50
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- Applied Psychology2
- General Psychology1
Journals
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.
30 additional Social 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
- 119
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,905 +27.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.61 +8.0% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 101 | 109 | 116 | 119 | 121 | 122 | 124 | 127 | 136 | 140 | 151 | 156 | 159 | 163 | 173 | 184 | 183 | 188 | 193 | 191 | 199 | 197 | 201 | 196 | 188 | 190 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 28,066 | 30,845 | 33,076 | 35,905 | 37,696 | 40,350 | 42,722 | 46,442 | 50,784 | 56,475 | 61,672 | 67,696 | 72,356 | 76,793 | 80,841 | 85,396 | 90,662 | 94,142 | 97,395 | 100,160 | 105,268 | 112,687 | 120,908 | 126,957 | 130,021 | 137,461 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.670 | 0.6778 | 0.673 | 0.64 | 0.6780 | 0.8596 | 0.8604 | 0.95 | 1.003 | 1.10 | 1.04 | 1.12 | 1.07 | 1.09 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 0.99 | 0.921 | 0.922 | 0.923 | 0.925 | 0.90 |
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.