Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Social Psychology journal rankings 2007
127 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 127 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology, and Review of General Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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)
127 ranked journals
Filters
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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.61Q1 | 6.79 0.18 up from 2006 | 406 | 10% | — | ||
2Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.23Q1 | 4.51 0.13 up from 2006 | 161 | 0% | — | ||
3Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.55Q1 | 4.53 0.79 down from 2006 | 66 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
4Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 7.01 1.33 up from 2006 | 583 | 100% | — | ||
5Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.41Q1 | 4.02 1.56 up from 2006 | 67 | 20% | — | ||
6Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.84 0.68 down from 2006 | 137 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
7Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 2.39 0.51 up from 2006 | 116 | 18% | $2,780 | ||
8Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.77Q1 | 2.14 0.42 up from 2006 | 87 | 6% | — | ||
9Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 2.82 1.18 up from 2006 | 89 | 32% | $3,490 | ||
10Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.40Q1 | 2.11 0.05 up from 2006 | 87 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
11Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.79 0.77 up from 2006 | 224 | 10% | $1,500 | ||
12Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.54 0.26 up from 2006 | 78 | 18% | — | ||
13Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 3.94 0.09 up from 2006 | 481 | 25% | $3,640 | ||
14British Journal of Guidance and CounsellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.20 0.08 up from 2006 | 102 | 6% | — | ||
15Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.31 0.36 down from 2006 | 179 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
16Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.14 0.28 up from 2006 | 153 | 10% | $3,600 | ||
17Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 1.68 0.07 down from 2006 | 69 | 3% | — | ||
18International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 2.17 0.14 up from 2006 | 232 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
19Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.72 0.35 down from 2006 | 145 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
20Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.55 0.71 down from 2006 | 98 | 23% | $3,140 | ||
21Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 0.89 0.13 down from 2006 | 68 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
22Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 1.29 0.54 down from 2006 | 50 | 12% | $3,290 | ||
23Journal of comparative psychologyPublisher not listed | 1.58Q1 | 2.69 0.37 up from 2006 | 155 | 8% | — | ||
24Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.26 0.41 down from 2006 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
25Cognition Technology & WorkSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 1.18 0.07 down from 2006 | 102 | 22% | $3,390 | ||
26Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.00 0.62 down from 2006 | 63 | 7% | — | ||
27Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.48Q1 | 0.94 0.20 down from 2006 | 65 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
28International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.08 0.36 down from 2006 | 123 | 15% | — | ||
29American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.94 0.06 up from 2006 | 355 | 8% | $4,330 | ||
30Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.22 0.28 down from 2006 | 79 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
31International Journal of Aviation PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.42Q1 | 1.39 0.32 up from 2006 | 63 | 9% | — | ||
32Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.37Q1 | 0.98 0.07 up from 2006 | 94 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.02 0.72 down from 2006 | 138 | 0% | $3,010 | ||
34Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.48 0.60 up from 2006 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
35The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.32 0.36 up from 2006 | 112 | 5% | — | ||
36Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.54 0.19 up from 2006 | 287 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
37Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.25Q2 | 0.74 0.28 down from 2006 | 87 | 6% | $2,990 | ||
38Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.73 0.29 down from 2006 | 84 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
39The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.16 1.12 up from 2006 | 181 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
40ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.18 0.70 up from 2006 | 332 | 17% | — | ||
41Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.17 0.27 down from 2006 | 192 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
42Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 0.77 0.30 down from 2006 | 80 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
43Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 0.75 0.02 down from 2006 | 83 | 7% | — | ||
44Folia PrimatologicaBrill · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 1.46 0.53 up from 2006 | 123 | 14% | — | ||
45Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 0.78 0.24 down from 2006 | 64 | 19% | $3,120 | ||
46International Journal of TransgenderismTaylor & Francis · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 0.88 0.14 up from 2006 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
47Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.98Q2 | 0.66 0.17 down from 2006 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
48Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.91 0.16 up from 2006 | 114 | 22% | — | ||
49Journal of Music TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.92 0.38 down from 2006 | 54 | 4% | $3,737 | ||
50PrimatesSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.92Q2 | 1.24 0.05 up from 2006 | 166 | 2% | $3,490 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology382
- Social Psychology127
- Developmental and Educational Psychology100
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology58
- Applied Psychology5
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
40 additional Social Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 127
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,442 +23.2% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.64 -4.1% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.