Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Field ranking · 2005
Psychology journal rankings 2005
627 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 627 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Methods, and Educational Psychology Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.19Q1 | 9.72 3.18 up from 2004 | 200 | 7% | — | ||
2Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.47Q1 | 3.15 1.05 down from 2004 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
3Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.31Q1 | 2.70 0.96 up from 2004 | 48 | 7% | $4,790 | ||
4Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 4.51 0.26 down from 2004 | 388 | 16% | $4,320 | ||
5Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.63Q1 | 4.51 2.21 up from 2004 | 82 | 6% | — | ||
6Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.62Q1 | 4.94 1.23 up from 2004 | 715 | 11% | — | ||
7Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.16Q1 | 5.69 0.36 up from 2004 | 471 | 13% | — | ||
8Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.03Q1 | 5.03 1.29 up from 2004 | 365 | 7% | — | ||
9Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.68Q1 | 2.42 0.75 up from 2004 | 91 | 12% | $3,530 | ||
10Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.68Q1 | 4.80 0.73 up from 2004 | 157 | 11% | $5,270 | ||
11Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.59Q1 | 3.32 1.50 up from 2004 | 57 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
12Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 3.33 1.38 down from 2004 | 148 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 4.66 0.85 up from 2004 | 382 | 15% | $4,530 | ||
14Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.50Q1 | 1.65 0.07 up from 2004 | 115 | 2% | $3,760 | ||
15Prevention ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 3.74 0.63 up from 2004 | 71 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
16Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 6.84 1.89 up from 2004 | 575 | 98% | — | ||
17Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 2.51 0.82 up from 2004 | 157 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
18Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 3.17Q1 | 3.83 0.39 up from 2004 | 112 | 7% | $4,330 | ||
19Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.14Q1 | 3.68 0.34 up from 2004 | 152 | 20% | $2,990 | ||
20Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.07Q1 | 1.63 0.11 down from 2004 | 112 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
21Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 1.79 0.38 up from 2004 | 79 | 11% | $2,780 | ||
22Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States | 3.04Q1 | 3.76 1.72 up from 2004 | 133 | 8% | — | ||
23American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.03Q1 | 5.08 0.23 up from 2004 | 2,081 | 5% | — | ||
24International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 3.01Q1 | 3.39 0.13 up from 2004 | 337 | 18% | $4,300 | ||
25Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.00Q1 | 4.79 1.34 up from 2004 | 278 | 19% | — | ||
26International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.99Q1 | 5.08 3.28 up from 2004 | 59 | 91% | $4,070 | ||
27Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.98Q1 | 3.23 0.84 up from 2004 | 135 | 14% | $3,780 | ||
28Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 2.95Q1 | 2.89 0.59 up from 2004 | 78 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
29Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 2.79 1.32 up from 2004 | 64 | 12% | $3,290 | ||
30Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.84Q1 | 2.40 0.76 up from 2004 | 227 | 7% | — | ||
31IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 2.75Q1 | 3.69 1.35 up from 2004 | 140 | 5% | $3,530 | ||
32Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 2.65Q1 | 2.59 0.23 up from 2004 | 227 | 14% | $3,120 | ||
33The Journal of Sex ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.62Q1 | 2.21 0.26 up from 2004 | 114 | 9% | — | ||
34Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.82 0.28 up from 2004 | 824 | 19% | $3,710 | ||
35Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.60Q1 | 4.62 1.58 up from 2004 | 292 | 11% | — | ||
36International Review of PsychiatryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.43 1.13 up from 2004 | 113 | 3% | — | ||
37Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.74 0.80 up from 2004 | 133 | 2% | $5,950 | ||
38Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.16 0.11 up from 2004 | 360 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
39European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 2.47 0.17 up from 2004 | 110 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
40Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.66 0.99 down from 2004 | 116 | 8% | — | ||
41Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 1.97 0.37 up from 2004 | 103 | 3% | $4,720 | ||
42American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.36 1.20 up from 2004 | 848 | 5% | — | ||
43Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.16 0.18 up from 2004 | 433 | 10% | $3,580 | ||
44Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.48Q1 | 2.50 0.39 up from 2004 | 75 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
45British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 1.87 0.06 down from 2004 | 99 | 14% | $3,760 | ||
46Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.44Q1 | 1.81 0.16 up from 2004 | 132 | 11% | $3,890 | ||
47Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 1.25 1.36 down from 2004 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
48Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.71 1.11 up from 2004 | 115 | 8% | $3,600 | ||
49Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 2.54 0.73 down from 2004 | 53 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
50Body ImageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.40 1.70 down from 2004 | 42 | 12% | $4,250 |
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
154 additional Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 627
- Window papers (baseline)
- 141,328 +21.5% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.77 +11.4% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.