Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Field ranking · 2010
Psychology journal rankings 2010
759 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 759 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.67Q1 | 8.68 1.56 up from 2009 | 462 | 19% | — | ||
2Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.86Q1 | 15.97 0.47 down from 2009 | 143 | 26% | — | ||
3Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.00Q1 | 7.61 2.05 down from 2009 | 150 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 6.25Q1 | 4.63 0.54 up from 2009 | 52 | 13% | — | ||
5ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 2.25 1.10 down from 2009 | 88 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
6Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.68Q1 | 6.14 0.26 up from 2009 | 424 | 36% | — | ||
7Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.61Q1 | 9.66 3.84 up from 2009 | 43 | 25% | $4,330 | ||
8Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.58Q1 | 8.50 1.07 up from 2009 | 317 | 48% | — | ||
9Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 5.76 0.70 down from 2009 | 385 | 39% | $4,320 | ||
10Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.36Q1 | 5.20 1.55 down from 2009 | 74 | 15% | — | ||
11Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 5.31Q1 | 4.57 0.17 up from 2009 | 132 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
12Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.14Q1 | 3.67 1.43 down from 2009 | 71 | 42% | $4,790 | ||
13Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.90Q1 | 4.48 0.06 up from 2009 | 143 | 12% | — | ||
14Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.81Q1 | 7.04 0.36 up from 2009 | 241 | 64% | — | ||
15Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 6.53 0.37 down from 2009 | 202 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
16International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.57Q1 | 5.48 0.87 up from 2009 | 71 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
17Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.44Q1 | 4.43 0.52 up from 2009 | 76 | 20% | $3,530 | ||
18Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.35Q1 | 3.82 0.20 up from 2009 | 275 | 44% | — | ||
19Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 5.91 0.79 down from 2009 | 451 | 47% | $4,530 | ||
20American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.22Q1 | 3.06 0.41 up from 2009 | 520 | 10% | — | ||
21Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.16Q1 | 8.11 1.63 up from 2009 | 217 | 22% | $5,270 | ||
22Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 4.14Q1 | 5.46 1.56 up from 2009 | 166 | 21% | $3,780 | ||
23Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 4.01Q1 | 4.01 0.08 down from 2009 | 173 | 15% | $4,330 | ||
24Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.91Q1 | 4.29 0.69 up from 2009 | 70 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
25Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 6.87 0.30 up from 2009 | 908 | 99% | — | ||
26Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 5.26 0.03 down from 2009 | 223 | 49% | — | ||
27Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.85Q1 | 4.08 0.53 up from 2009 | 57 | 8% | — | ||
28Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and PolicyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.75Q1 | 3.74 9.93 down from 2009 | 34 | 23% | — | ||
29Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.67Q1 | 4.39 0.42 up from 2009 | 152 | 23% | — | ||
30International Journal of Stress ManagementAmerican Psychological Association · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 3.07 0.17 up from 2009 | 70 | 5% | — | ||
31Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.62Q1 | 2.79 0.27 down from 2009 | 109 | 47% | $3,400 | ||
32Prevention ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.54Q1 | 3.73 0.22 down from 2009 | 99 | 77% | $3,790 | ||
33Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.51Q1 | 2.73 0.04 down from 2009 | 36 | 16% | — | ||
34Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.51Q1 | 1.70 1.56 down from 2009 | 92 | 17% | — | ||
35Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.49Q1 | 3.50 1.20 up from 2009 | 162 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
36Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 4.80 0.57 up from 2009 | 283 | 64% | $2,990 | ||
37Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 3.25 0.33 down from 2009 | 311 | 16% | $4,050 | ||
38Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.37Q1 | 2.20 0.37 down from 2009 | 137 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
39American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.36Q1 | 6.11 0.54 up from 2009 | 1,545 | 26% | — | ||
40Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 3.24 1.23 up from 2009 | 100 | 30% | $3,700 | ||
41Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.23Q1 | 5.76 0.63 up from 2009 | 324 | 46% | — | ||
42International Journal of Behavioral DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 2.85 0.34 up from 2009 | 184 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
43Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 2.55 0.42 up from 2009 | 116 | 22% | $2,780 | ||
44Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 4.11 0.12 down from 2009 | 283 | 26% | $3,120 | ||
45EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.13Q1 | 5.11 0.02 up from 2009 | 277 | 32% | — | ||
46Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 4.10 0.14 up from 2009 | 465 | 43% | $3,580 | ||
47Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 2.35 0.99 up from 2009 | 176 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
48Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 2.96 0.60 down from 2009 | 40 | 40% | — | ||
49Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 3.52 2.00 down from 2009 | 47 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
50Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.04Q1 | 2.58 1.01 up from 2009 | 99 | 10% | $3,650 |
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
174 additional Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 759
- Window papers (baseline)
- 212,190 +29.4% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.920 +11.1% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.