Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Social Psychology journal rankings 2012
159 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 159 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2011 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The top three are Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
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)
159 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 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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1Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.30Q1 | 7.82 0.64 down from 2011 | 502 | 19% | — | ||
2Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.23Q1 | 9.47 2.48 up from 2011 | 210 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.15Q1 | 4.86 0.34 down from 2011 | 163 | 7% | — | ||
4Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.98Q1 | 7.94 0.18 down from 2011 | 990 | 100% | — | ||
5Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.18Q1 | 5.52 1.48 up from 2011 | 99 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
6Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 2.44 1.12 down from 2011 | 144 | 15% | $2,780 | ||
7Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.24Q1 | 3.20 0.11 up from 2011 | 70 | 19% | — | ||
8The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 3.00Q1 | 3.09 0.44 down from 2011 | 144 | 15% | — | ||
9Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.42 0.18 up from 2011 | 124 | 25% | $3,600 | ||
10International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 2.77 0.23 down from 2011 | 111 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
11Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 2.50 0.69 up from 2011 | 166 | 20% | $3,490 | ||
12Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.30 0.33 up from 2011 | 267 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
13International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.14 0.01 down from 2011 | 183 | 12% | — | ||
14Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.30 0.80 down from 2011 | 97 | 16% | — | ||
15Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 2.20 0.93 up from 2011 | 82 | 7% | — | ||
16Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.36 0.57 up from 2011 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
17Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.51 0.76 down from 2011 | 106 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
18Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.16Q1 | 4.20 0.13 down from 2011 | 534 | 41% | $3,640 | ||
19Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.23 0.75 up from 2011 | 70 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
20Training and Education in Professional PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.84 0.49 down from 2011 | 109 | 3% | — | ||
21Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.44 0.37 down from 2011 | 190 | 19% | $1,500 | ||
22Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.42 0.36 down from 2011 | 73 | 13% | — | ||
23Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.30 0.34 up from 2011 | 196 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.07 0.15 up from 2011 | 205 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
25Child Indicators ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 1.60 0.63 up from 2011 | 101 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
26Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.27no change | 342 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
27The Open Criminology JournalOANetherlands | 1.79Q1 | 1.83 1.16 up from 2011 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.79Q1 | 1.80 0.45 up from 2011 | 96 | 4% | — | ||
29Journal of comparative psychologyPublisher not listed | 1.79Q1 | 2.52 0.31 up from 2011 | 167 | 28% | — | ||
30The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.46 0.77 down from 2011 | 107 | 16% | — | ||
31Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.61 0.16 up from 2011 | 199 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
32Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.09 0.33 up from 2011 | 155 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
33Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.75Q1 | 0.90 0.99 down from 2011 | 59 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
34Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.61 0.50 up from 2011 | 219 | 7% | — | ||
35American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.67 0.09 up from 2011 | 359 | 29% | $4,330 | ||
36Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.11 0.44 up from 2011 | 164 | 10% | $3,010 | ||
37Journal of sport behaviorUnited States | 1.72Q1 | 1.63 0.61 up from 2011 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
38Journal of School ViolenceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.38 0.09 up from 2011 | 63 | 3% | — | ||
39The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.97 0.30 up from 2011 | 162 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
40Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.11 0.15 down from 2011 | 84 | 4% | — | ||
41Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.71Q2 | 1.82 0.34 up from 2011 | 82 | 20% | — | ||
42Journal of Family CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q2 | 1.42 0.42 up from 2011 | 45 | 5% | — | ||
43International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 2.20 0.14 up from 2011 | 230 | 33% | $3,890 | ||
44Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 1.78 0.68 down from 2011 | 58 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
45Journal on Multimodal User InterfacesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.67Q2 | 1.34 1.22 down from 2011 | 59 | 35% | $2,990 | ||
46Journal of Couple & Relationship TherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.85 0.74 up from 2011 | 68 | 8% | — | ||
47Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q2 | 1.29 0.12 up from 2011 | 84 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
48ErgonomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 2.44 0.28 up from 2011 | 400 | 17% | — | ||
49Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.48 0.29 up from 2011 | 102 | 28% | $2,990 | ||
50Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.34 0.32 up from 2011 | 62 | 19% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social 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.
50 additional Social 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
- 159
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,356 +28.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.003 +16.7% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.