Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2012
79 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 79 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.23 on 2011 to 0.97, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.95. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Psychological Methods, and Evolution and Human Behavior.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
79 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.39Q1 | 7.56 0.13 up from 2011 | 52 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
2Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.80Q1 | 6.67 0.48 up from 2011 | 89 | 40% | — | ||
3Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 4.09Q1 | 4.75 0.74 up from 2011 | 166 | 22% | $4,330 | ||
4Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.66Q1 | 3.40 0.33 down from 2011 | 168 | 5% | $3,530 | ||
5Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.29Q1 | 3.48 0.57 down from 2011 | 89 | 9% | $4,720 | ||
6EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.10Q1 | 4.83 1.39 down from 2011 | 429 | 37% | — | ||
7Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 7.07 0.45 up from 2011 | 167 | 22% | $5,950 | ||
8Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.92Q1 | 2.57 0.28 down from 2011 | 69 | 13% | $2,190 | ||
9Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 1.63 1.16 down from 2011 | 160 | 6% | — | ||
10British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.58 0.84 up from 2011 | 139 | 6% | $3,760 | ||
11PhoneticaKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.35Q1 | 1.31 1.40 down from 2011 | 59 | 29% | $2,712 | ||
12SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 2.32Q1 | 5.02 0.11 down from 2011 | 766 | 89% | $4,388 | ||
13Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.29Q1 | 3.05 0.82 up from 2011 | 109 | 34% | — | ||
14Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.62 1.39 up from 2011 | 70 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
15Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 2.29 0.15 down from 2011 | 300 | 18% | $3,640 | ||
16Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 1.88 0.01 up from 2011 | 81 | 36% | $0 listed | ||
17Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 2.43 0.70 up from 2011 | 67 | 16% | $3,730 | ||
18Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.02 0.25 up from 2011 | 64 | 32% | $2,760 | ||
19Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.07 0.16 down from 2011 | 83 | 0% | $1,400 | ||
20Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 2.53 0.45 down from 2011 | 152 | 19% | $3,210 | ||
21The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.94Q2 | 1.74 0.34 down from 2011 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
22International Review of PragmaticsBrill · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 0.96 0.04 up from 2011 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
23ENGLISH LINGUISTICSOAJapan | 1.70Q2 | 0.98 0.52 up from 2011 | 75 | 80% | — | ||
24Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 1.17 0.05 up from 2011 | 202 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
25Language and CognitionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 1.83 0.14 down from 2011 | 45 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
26High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 1.57 0.06 down from 2011 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
27IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.63Q2 | 3.08 0.58 down from 2011 | 163 | 15% | $3,530 | ||
28Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q2 | 3.36 0.60 down from 2011 | 594 | 18% | $4,350 | ||
29Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 2.32 0.61 up from 2011 | 113 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
30Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 3.02 0.20 down from 2011 | 279 | 32% | $4,340 | ||
31Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.50Q2 | 2.16 0.19 up from 2011 | 118 | 3% | — | ||
32The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.60 0.46 down from 2011 | 52 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
33Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 1.49 0.51 down from 2011 | 85 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
34Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.62 0.18 up from 2011 | 202 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
35Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.11 0.49 down from 2011 | 134 | 5% | — | ||
36PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.30 1.01 down from 2011 | 64 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
37Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 5.56 1.21 up from 2011 | 347 | 23% | — | ||
38Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.71 0.12 down from 2011 | 70 | 29% | — | ||
39Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 0.97Q2 | 1.18 0.08 up from 2011 | 39 | 73% | $551 | ||
40Journal of Experimental PsychopathologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.06 0.44 up from 2011 | 48 | 39% | $2,000 | ||
41Journal of Evolutionary PsychologyAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.97Q3 | 1.12 0.08 up from 2011 | 81 | 11% | — | ||
42Seeing and PerceivingBrill · Netherlands | 0.95Q3 | 1.65 0.34 up from 2011 | 52 | 5% | — | ||
43The Senses and SocietyRoutledge | 0.89Q3 | 0.56 0.30 up from 2011 | 103 | 3% | — | ||
44journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.89Q3 | 0.98 0.41 up from 2011 | 76 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
45SemioticaOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.86Q3 | 0.27 0.20 down from 2011 | 226 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
46Roeper ReviewRoutledge · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.87 0.24 up from 2011 | 102 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of the International Phonetic AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.84 0.02 up from 2011 | 106 | 57% | $3,550 | ||
48Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 0.75 0.54 down from 2011 | 60 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
49Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.74 0.15 down from 2011 | 42 | 22% | — | ||
50Journal of Dance Medicine & ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.80 0.07 up from 2011 | 67 | 100% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology446
- Social Psychology159
- Developmental and Educational Psychology113
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology79
- Applied Psychology8
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology2
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 79
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,972 +25.4% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.97 -2.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 | 46 | 46 | 49 | 50 | 52 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 92 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 102 | 105 | 104 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,729 | 15,884 | 17,225 | 18,824 | 19,987 | 21,367 | 23,176 | 25,747 | 28,755 | 31,869 | 34,468 | 37,293 | 39,972 | 42,003 | 43,859 | 45,321 | 48,043 | 49,491 | 50,738 | 51,227 | 53,198 | 56,392 | 60,486 | 63,684 | 65,590 | 68,101 | |
| Median OJR | 0.854 | 0.77 | 0.81 | 0.910 | 0.78 | 0.862 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.903 | 0.9999 | 1.04 | 1.20 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 1.33 | 1.09 | 0.99 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 0.860 | 0.94 | 0.902 | 0.906 | 0.82 | 0.848 | 0.856 |
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.