Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Social Psychology journal rankings 2009
140 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 140 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.18 on 2008 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Counseling 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)
140 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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1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.95Q1 | 9.66 1.98 down from 2008 | 94 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.57Q1 | 7.11 0.46 down from 2008 | 452 | 23% | — | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.68Q1 | 4.42 0.50 up from 2008 | 141 | 14% | — | ||
4Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 6.57 0.57 up from 2008 | 812 | 99% | — | ||
5Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 2.85 0.23 up from 2008 | 169 | 16% | $3,600 | ||
6Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.14 0.34 down from 2008 | 115 | 25% | $2,780 | ||
7Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.74Q1 | 2.77 0.03 up from 2008 | 39 | 7% | — | ||
8Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.68Q1 | 1.57 0.53 down from 2008 | 100 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.30 0.22 down from 2008 | 155 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
10The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 2.46Q1 | 2.84 0.58 up from 2008 | 63 | 14% | — | ||
11Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.00no change | 540 | 35% | $3,640 | ||
12Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.40 0.19 down from 2008 | 77 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
13Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 1.68 0.38 down from 2008 | 78 | 11% | — | ||
14Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.14 0.25 up from 2008 | 246 | 12% | $1,500 | ||
15Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.21Q1 | 2.03 0.29 up from 2008 | 93 | 6% | — | ||
16Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.14 0.38 up from 2008 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
17Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.42 0.34 up from 2008 | 78 | 16% | — | ||
18Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 1.54 0.78 down from 2008 | 150 | 23% | $3,490 | ||
19Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.02 0.40 down from 2008 | 102 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
20Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.00 0.25 up from 2008 | 84 | 6% | — | ||
21Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.19 0.59 up from 2008 | 107 | 15% | $3,140 | ||
22Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 2.42 0.87 up from 2008 | 59 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
23Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.79 0.02 up from 2008 | 105 | 25% | — | ||
24International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.64 0.36 up from 2008 | 134 | 4% | — | ||
25The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.52 0.64 down from 2008 | 169 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
26Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 1.46 0.22 down from 2008 | 89 | 18% | $3,120 | ||
27Journal of comparative psychologyPublisher not listed | 1.77Q1 | 2.72 0.27 up from 2008 | 154 | 14% | — | ||
28International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 2.34 0.04 up from 2008 | 309 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
29British Journal of Guidance and CounsellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.09 0.26 down from 2008 | 87 | 6% | — | ||
30Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.63 0.07 up from 2008 | 183 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
31Humor - International Journal of Humor ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.17 0.94 up from 2008 | 54 | 37% | $2,712 | ||
32Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 1.65 0.06 up from 2008 | 155 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
33Training and Education in Professional PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.26 0.98 up from 2008 | 71 | 5% | — | ||
| 1.48Q1 | 1.39 0.59 up from 2008 | 37 | 0% | — | |||
35ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 1.99 0.54 down from 2008 | 399 | 16% | — | ||
36Memory StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 1.47 1.61 down from 2008 | 34 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
37Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.42Q2 | 2.14 1.27 up from 2008 | 67 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
38Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 1.33Q2 | 2.29 0.10 down from 2008 | 239 | 31% | $3,760 | ||
39PrimatesSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.32Q2 | 1.77 0.04 up from 2008 | 139 | 16% | $3,490 | ||
40Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.46 0.35 down from 2008 | 307 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
41American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.05 0.18 up from 2008 | 431 | 18% | $4,330 | ||
42Journal of Family CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q2 | 0.85 0.15 up from 2008 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
43Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 0.87 0.08 down from 2008 | 91 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
44Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q2 | 0.60 0.60 down from 2008 | 189 | 18% | — | ||
45Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.28Q2 | 0.96 0.33 up from 2008 | 75 | 3% | — | ||
46The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.37 0.26 up from 2008 | 124 | 11% | — | ||
47Integrative Psychological and Behavioral ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.84 1.11 up from 2008 | 80 | 15% | $3,390 | ||
48Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision MakingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.44 0.05 up from 2008 | 39 | 5% | $1,500 | ||
49New Ideas in PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 1.49 0.14 down from 2008 | 77 | 9% | $3,600 | ||
50International Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.22 0.23 up from 2008 | 188 | 14% | $3,570 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social 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.
44 additional Social 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
- 140
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,475 +32.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.8596 +27.8% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.