Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Social Psychology journal rankings 2011
156 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 156 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2010 to 0.95, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.56. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
156 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.68Q1 | 8.46 0.21 down from 2010 | 485 | 21% | — | ||
2Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 6.99 0.61 down from 2010 | 189 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.60Q1 | 5.19 0.71 up from 2010 | 155 | 8% | — | ||
4Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 8.13 1.26 up from 2010 | 987 | 100% | — | ||
5Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 3.55 1.00 up from 2010 | 132 | 33% | $2,780 | ||
6Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.63Q1 | 3.09 0.36 up from 2010 | 45 | 18% | — | ||
7The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 3.20Q1 | 3.53 0.15 up from 2010 | 108 | 9% | — | ||
8International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 3.00 0.71 down from 2010 | 79 | 21% | $4,190 | ||
9Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.04 1.37 up from 2010 | 97 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
10Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.93Q1 | 2.81 1.29 down from 2010 | 206 | 19% | $1,500 | ||
11Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.78Q1 | 2.27 0.31 down from 2010 | 113 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
12Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.74Q1 | 3.24 0.53 up from 2010 | 132 | 32% | $3,600 | ||
13International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.15 0.61 up from 2010 | 153 | 14% | — | ||
14Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.31Q1 | 1.97 1.53 down from 2010 | 232 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
15Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.79 0.03 up from 2010 | 100 | 9% | — | ||
16Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.11 0.40 up from 2010 | 82 | 29% | — | ||
17Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.47no change | 53 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
18International Journal of Mental Health SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.23 0.43 up from 2010 | 78 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
19Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.32 0.24 up from 2010 | 549 | 36% | $3,640 | ||
20Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.92 0.44 down from 2010 | 204 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
21Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.89 0.21 up from 2010 | 63 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
22Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.45 0.29 up from 2010 | 121 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
23The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.01Q1 | 2.23 0.39 up from 2010 | 109 | 14% | — | ||
24Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 1.81 0.22 down from 2010 | 144 | 14% | $3,490 | ||
25Journal on Multimodal User InterfacesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 2.56 1.65 up from 2010 | 50 | 26% | $2,990 | ||
26Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 1.16 0.05 down from 2010 | 96 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
27Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.90Q1 | 1.48 0.67 down from 2010 | 79 | 7% | — | ||
28Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.90Q1 | 1.35 0.46 down from 2010 | 97 | 10% | — | ||
29American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.85Q1 | 2.58 0.17 up from 2010 | 396 | 21% | $4,330 | ||
30Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.96 0.37 down from 2010 | 203 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
31Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.26 0.24 up from 2010 | 84 | 4% | — | ||
32Asian Journal Of Social PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.25 0.17 down from 2010 | 107 | 7% | $3,120 | ||
33Journal of Adult DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 1.78 1.06 up from 2010 | 72 | 9% | $3,290 | ||
34Primate ConservationOAConservation International · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.32 0.13 down from 2010 | 46 | — | — | ||
35Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.28 0.01 down from 2010 | 364 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
36Training and Education in Professional PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.33 1.04 up from 2010 | 107 | 3% | — | ||
37The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.67 0.12 up from 2010 | 167 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
38Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 1.61Q1 | 3.07 0.34 up from 2010 | 245 | 39% | $3,760 | ||
39Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.56Q1 | 1.19 0.11 down from 2010 | 92 | 20% | $2,990 | ||
40Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 1.78 0.16 down from 2010 | 77 | 9% | — | ||
41Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 2.46 0.01 up from 2010 | 56 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
42Journal of comparative psychologyPublisher not listed | 1.54Q2 | 2.21 0.32 down from 2010 | 147 | 15% | — | ||
43Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 1.27 0.24 down from 2010 | 89 | 17% | — | ||
44Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.76 0.22 down from 2010 | 119 | 28% | $3,190 | ||
45Team Performance ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 0.86 0.44 down from 2010 | 74 | 4% | — | ||
46International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 2.06 0.16 down from 2010 | 252 | 29% | $3,890 | ||
47Memory StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 1.09 0.22 down from 2010 | 86 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
48Child Indicators ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 0.97 0.40 down from 2010 | 88 | 17% | $3,490 | ||
49Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision MakingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.26 0.10 down from 2010 | 53 | 18% | $1,500 | ||
50ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.16 0.05 down from 2010 | 421 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology438
- Social Psychology156
- Developmental and Educational Psychology110
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology71
- Applied Psychology7
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology2
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
43 additional Social Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 156
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,696 +33.3% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.95 +39.7% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.