Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Social Psychology journal rankings 2004
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 121 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2003 to 0.67, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Review of General Psychology, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
121 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.49Q1 | 3.72 0.29 up from 2003 | 898 | 16% | — | ||
2Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.06Q1 | 2.11 0.61 up from 2003 | 96 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.07 0.39 down from 2003 | 139 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
4Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 1.73 0.82 up from 2003 | 63 | 13% | $3,490 | ||
5Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.61 1.18 up from 2003 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
6Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 4.95 0.69 up from 2003 | 572 | 95% | — | ||
7Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 1.98 0.56 up from 2003 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
8Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 1.41 0.49 down from 2003 | 73 | 13% | $2,780 | ||
9Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.47 0.34 up from 2003 | 331 | 4% | $3,640 | ||
10Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.74 0.73 up from 2003 | 124 | 5% | — | ||
11Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.90 0.10 up from 2003 | 46 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
12Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.92 0.13 down from 2003 | 152 | 8% | $1,500 | ||
13Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.56 0.35 up from 2003 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
14International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 1.73 0.16 down from 2003 | 198 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
15Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.43 0.26 up from 2003 | 251 | 4% | — | ||
16Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.84 0.92 up from 2003 | 159 | 6% | $3,010 | ||
17Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.44 0.13 down from 2003 | 87 | 16% | $3,140 | ||
18Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q1 | 1.25 0.17 up from 2003 | 85 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.47Q1 | 0.76 0.02 down from 2003 | 78 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
20Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 0.79 0.03 down from 2003 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.42Q1 | 1.24 0.15 up from 2003 | 181 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
22The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.41Q1 | 1.61 0.42 up from 2003 | 172 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
23International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q1 | 0.80 0.07 down from 2003 | 127 | 11% | — | ||
24Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.21no change | 137 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
25Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 1.94 0.28 up from 2003 | 50 | 3% | — | ||
26Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.10 0.34 down from 2003 | 98 | 7% | — | ||
27Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q1 | 0.56 0.11 up from 2003 | 190 | 2% | — | ||
28ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.17 0.29 down from 2003 | 288 | 7% | — | ||
29Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.42 0.16 up from 2003 | 200 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
30American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.25Q1 | 1.73 0.42 up from 2003 | 183 | 7% | $4,330 | ||
31Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.28 0.51 up from 2003 | 210 | 2% | $3,760 | ||
32Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.21Q2 | 0.51 0.69 down from 2003 | 70 | 6% | — | ||
33Journal of sport behaviorUnited States | 1.20Q2 | 1.05 0.42 up from 2003 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
34Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 0.37 0.11 down from 2003 | 44 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
35The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.86 0.07 up from 2003 | 149 | 3% | — | ||
36Journal of Music TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.10Q2 | 0.94 0.19 up from 2003 | 49 | 0% | $3,737 | ||
37Folia PrimatologicaBrill · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 1.12 0.12 up from 2003 | 131 | 7% | — | ||
38Team Performance ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.62 0.01 down from 2003 | 62 | 4% | — | ||
39Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.77 0.12 up from 2003 | 51 | 25% | $3,120 | ||
40Professional School CounselingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.92 0.05 down from 2003 | 142 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
41New Ideas in PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.34 0.74 down from 2003 | 51 | 5% | $3,600 | ||
42Journal of Adult DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 0.88 0.78 down from 2003 | 73 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
43Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.41 0.61 up from 2003 | 162 | 7% | $3,600 | ||
44Southern Communication JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.95Q2 | 0.33 0.40 down from 2003 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
45Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.83 0.09 up from 2003 | 102 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 1.28 0.66 up from 2003 | 47 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
47Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 0.89Q2 | 0.41 0.05 down from 2003 | 91 | 3% | — | ||
48International Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.67 0.25 up from 2003 | 124 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
49Counselor Education and SupervisionWiley · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.64 0.19 up from 2003 | 87 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
50Cognition Technology & WorkSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.82 0.16 down from 2003 | 76 | 7% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology339
- Social Psychology121
- Developmental and Educational Psychology88
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology52
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- Applied Psychology3
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
31 additional Social Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,696 +22.2% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.670 +19.5% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.