Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2009
413 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 413 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.58. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, Developmental Psychology, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
413 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.26Q1 | 16.43 0.34 down from 2008 | 136 | 33% | — | ||
2Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.92Q1 | 5.88 0.19 up from 2008 | 385 | 41% | — | ||
3Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.25Q1 | 7.43 0.08 down from 2008 | 330 | 57% | — | ||
4Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 6.90 1.61 up from 2008 | 187 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
5Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.40Q1 | 6.68 0.43 up from 2008 | 258 | 59% | — | ||
6Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 6.70 0.05 down from 2008 | 375 | 48% | $4,530 | ||
7Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 5.30 1.76 up from 2008 | 185 | 36% | — | ||
8Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 4.09Q1 | 3.06 0.19 down from 2008 | 95 | 35% | $3,400 | ||
9American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.07Q1 | 2.65 0.52 down from 2008 | 487 | 9% | — | ||
10Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.92Q1 | 6.48 0.57 down from 2008 | 200 | 20% | $5,270 | ||
11Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.68Q1 | 5.52 1.45 up from 2008 | 36 | 55% | $3,990 | ||
12International Journal of Stress ManagementAmerican Psychological Association · Netherlands | 3.66Q1 | 2.90 0.87 up from 2008 | 81 | 6% | — | ||
13Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.90 0.10 up from 2008 | 168 | 25% | $3,780 | ||
14Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.46Q1 | 3.63 0.44 up from 2008 | 266 | 41% | — | ||
15Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.44Q1 | 2.57 0.13 up from 2008 | 158 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
16American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.24Q1 | 5.57 0.60 up from 2008 | 2,181 | 19% | — | ||
17Aggression and Violent BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 3.23Q1 | 3.37 0.79 up from 2008 | 117 | 13% | $3,880 | ||
18Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.21Q1 | 4.68 1.01 down from 2008 | 735 | 34% | $3,710 | ||
19Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.67 0.56 up from 2008 | 140 | 30% | — | ||
20Prevention ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 3.95 0.33 up from 2008 | 100 | 70% | $3,790 | ||
21International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric ResearchOAWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 4.39 1.65 up from 2008 | 91 | 87% | $4,070 | ||
22Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.08Q1 | 3.97 0.09 up from 2008 | 146 | 27% | — | ||
23Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 4.22 1.28 up from 2008 | 278 | 43% | $3,120 | ||
24The British Journal of PsychiatryCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 4.65 0.40 up from 2008 | 996 | 96% | $4,920 | ||
25American Journal of OrthopsychiatryAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.01Q1 | 2.82 0.39 up from 2008 | 186 | 21% | — | ||
26Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 5.15 0.03 up from 2008 | 629 | 47% | $3,550 | ||
27Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.91Q1 | 5.13 0.24 down from 2008 | 320 | 53% | — | ||
28Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.88Q1 | 3.59 0.46 down from 2008 | 60 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
29AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.85Q1 | 2.66 0.85 down from 2008 | 138 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Black PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.84Q1 | 2.35 0.47 up from 2008 | 71 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
31Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 4.22 0.55 up from 2008 | 278 | 59% | $2,990 | ||
32Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 2.77Q1 | 3.74 0.28 up from 2008 | 780 | 33% | $3,670 | ||
33Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.58 0.88 up from 2008 | 330 | 18% | $4,050 | ||
34Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.96 0.24 up from 2008 | 466 | 30% | $3,580 | ||
35Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.68Q1 | 2.95 0.41 up from 2008 | 116 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
36The Journal of Early AdolescenceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.67Q1 | 2.03 0.16 up from 2008 | 95 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
37Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 3.59 1.01 down from 2008 | 306 | 4% | — | ||
38Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.22 0.73 up from 2008 | 157 | 13% | — | ||
39Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 2.53 1.33 down from 2008 | 159 | 27% | $3,600 | ||
40Journal of School HealthWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.15 0.16 up from 2008 | 251 | 13% | $3,570 | ||
41Family ProcessWiley · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.53 0.68 up from 2008 | 118 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
42Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 3.43 1.93 up from 2008 | 164 | 36% | $3,790 | ||
43Psychosomatic MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.52Q1 | 5.35 0.94 up from 2008 | 438 | 51% | — | ||
44Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.83 0.87 up from 2008 | 278 | 18% | $3,330 | ||
45International Journal of Behavioral DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.52 0.84 up from 2008 | 186 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
46Body ImageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 2.89 0.61 up from 2008 | 156 | 13% | $4,250 | ||
47Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 1.80 0.29 down from 2008 | 211 | 25% | $3,150 | ||
48Merrill-palmer QuarterlyMerrill-Palmer Institute | 2.40Q1 | 1.68 0.41 up from 2008 | 96 | 27% | — | ||
49Sexual AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.72 0.62 up from 2008 | 146 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
50Psychiatric Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.09 0.31 down from 2008 | 166 | 11% | $2,900 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology413
- Social Psychology140
- Developmental and Educational Psychology104
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology66
- Applied Psychology6
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology2
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
76 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 413
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,932 +27.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.874 +18.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.