Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2008
396 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 396 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, Developmental Psychology, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
396 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.15Q1 | 16.78 3.30 up from 2007 | 146 | 26% | — | ||
2Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.52Q1 | 5.70 0.85 up from 2007 | 313 | 31% | — | ||
3Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.11Q1 | 7.51 0.86 up from 2007 | 348 | 39% | — | ||
4Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.64Q1 | 6.25no change | 242 | 39% | — | ||
5American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.29Q1 | 3.17 0.27 down from 2007 | 522 | 9% | — | ||
6Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.21Q1 | 4.05 1.37 up from 2007 | 56 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
7Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.14Q1 | 7.04 0.79 up from 2007 | 205 | 34% | $5,270 | ||
8Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 6.74 1.03 up from 2007 | 378 | 28% | $4,530 | ||
9Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States | 3.67Q1 | 3.11 0.57 down from 2007 | 142 | 24% | — | ||
10Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 5.29 0.75 up from 2007 | 180 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.59Q1 | 3.25 1.05 up from 2007 | 96 | 26% | $3,400 | ||
12Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.55Q1 | 3.80 0.35 up from 2007 | 172 | 26% | $3,780 | ||
13Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 3.54 1.14 down from 2007 | 189 | 35% | — | ||
14Prevention ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.18Q1 | 3.62 1.06 up from 2007 | 86 | 56% | $3,790 | ||
15Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.17Q1 | 3.19 0.30 up from 2007 | 234 | 33% | — | ||
16Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.16Q1 | 5.69 1.25 up from 2007 | 686 | 28% | $3,710 | ||
17American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.13Q1 | 4.97 0.09 up from 2007 | 2,448 | 17% | — | ||
18Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 2.45 1.14 up from 2007 | 145 | 10% | $3,590 | ||
19Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.06Q1 | 3.67 0.46 down from 2007 | 244 | 50% | $2,990 | ||
20Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.02Q1 | 5.37 0.83 up from 2007 | 281 | 25% | — | ||
21Child & Family Social WorkWiley · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 1.72 0.14 down from 2007 | 175 | 8% | $3,560 | ||
22International Journal of Stress ManagementAmerican Psychological Association · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 2.04 0.37 up from 2007 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
23Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 5.12 0.32 up from 2007 | 579 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
24Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.88 0.61 up from 2007 | 152 | 20% | — | ||
25Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.72 0.12 down from 2007 | 456 | 32% | $3,580 | ||
26American Journal of OrthopsychiatryAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.75Q1 | 2.43 0.49 up from 2007 | 189 | 16% | — | ||
27The Journal of Early AdolescenceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.64Q1 | 1.86 1.26 down from 2007 | 65 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
28The British Journal of PsychiatryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.26 0.19 up from 2007 | 1,054 | 97% | $4,920 | ||
29Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.60Q1 | 2.53 0.15 up from 2007 | 96 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
30Aggression and Violent BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.58 0.80 up from 2007 | 111 | 13% | $3,880 | ||
31Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 4.07 0.48 up from 2007 | 43 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
32Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 2.53Q1 | 3.45 0.35 up from 2007 | 760 | 44% | $3,670 | ||
33Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 4.60 1.08 up from 2007 | 290 | 6% | — | ||
34International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 2.51Q1 | 3.48 0.76 down from 2007 | 414 | 29% | $4,300 | ||
35Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.94 0.46 up from 2007 | 284 | 36% | $3,120 | ||
36Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.85 1.68 up from 2007 | 140 | 13% | $3,600 | ||
37Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 2.70 0.86 up from 2007 | 359 | 19% | $4,050 | ||
38AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.39Q1 | 3.51 0.87 up from 2007 | 120 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
39Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 2.09 0.62 up from 2007 | 219 | 22% | $3,150 | ||
40European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.47 0.02 up from 2007 | 122 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
41Journal of Developmental & Behavioral PediatricsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.28Q1 | 3.57 1.05 up from 2007 | 209 | 12% | — | ||
42Psychosomatic MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.41 0.19 down from 2007 | 459 | 33% | — | ||
43The Journal of Sex ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.19Q1 | 1.82 0.88 down from 2007 | 130 | 8% | — | ||
44Journal of Black PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.88 0.24 up from 2007 | 66 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
45Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.49 0.10 up from 2007 | 160 | 13% | — | ||
46Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 2.11Q1 | 1.96 0.34 up from 2007 | 230 | 15% | $3,330 | ||
47Journal of Psychiatric ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.09Q1 | 4.25 0.52 up from 2007 | 358 | 28% | $3,320 | ||
48Developmental NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.56 1.42 down from 2007 | 133 | 24% | — | ||
49Journal of Social and Clinical PsychologyGuilford Press · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.89 0.32 up from 2007 | 192 | 8% | — | ||
50Journal of Affective DisordersElsevier BV · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.96 0.41 up from 2007 | 818 | 15% | $3,790 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology396
- Social Psychology136
- Developmental and Educational Psychology107
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology62
- Applied Psychology6
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology2
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
81 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 396
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,335 +25.6% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +15.9% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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 | 287 | 302 | 320 | 325 | 339 | 349 | 363 | 382 | 396 | 413 | 420 | 438 | 446 | 464 | 487 | 510 | 548 | 555 | 575 | 585 | 599 | 603 | 606 | 609 | 608 | 604 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 37,390 | 40,536 | 43,747 | 47,449 | 50,051 | 53,618 | 57,030 | 62,351 | 67,335 | 72,932 | 77,786 | 83,488 | 88,110 | 93,352 | 98,804 | 105,346 | 112,078 | 118,018 | 123,807 | 127,821 | 132,968 | 149,239 | 173,392 | 190,132 | 192,236 | 190,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.69 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.718 | 0.720 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.874 | 0.865 | 0.870 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.929 | 0.92 | 0.927 | 0.89 | 0.856 | 0.84 | 0.871 | 0.78 | 0.76 | 0.80 | 0.862 | 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.