Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Psychology journal rankings 2013
836 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 836 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, unchanged on 2012. A journal needs OJR 1.80 to reach Q1. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.88Q1 | 14.78 5.31 up from 2012 | 198 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
2Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.41Q1 | 14.58 2.84 down from 2012 | 194 | 28% | — | ||
3Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 7.66Q1 | 3.92 0.18 down from 2012 | 157 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.75Q1 | 8.49 0.94 up from 2012 | 85 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
5Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 6.67Q1 | 5.99 1.28 down from 2012 | 527 | 56% | $4,320 | ||
6Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.62Q1 | 7.68 0.15 down from 2012 | 483 | 21% | — | ||
7Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 6.38Q1 | 5.08 0.56 down from 2012 | 64 | 29% | $3,530 | ||
8Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.37Q1 | 8.10 1.43 up from 2012 | 109 | 36% | — | ||
9Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 5.60Q1 | 4.11 0.76 down from 2012 | 61 | 14% | — | ||
10Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.32Q1 | 5.17 0.32 up from 2012 | 162 | 15% | — | ||
11Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.24Q1 | 7.60 0.57 down from 2012 | 311 | 57% | — | ||
12American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.20Q1 | 3.95 0.30 up from 2012 | 449 | 16% | — | ||
13Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.81Q1 | 4.18 1.35 down from 2012 | 103 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
14Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 7.67 0.27 down from 2012 | 1,034 | 99% | — | ||
15ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 2.46 0.48 up from 2012 | 71 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
16Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 7.36 0.21 up from 2012 | 383 | 60% | $4,530 | ||
17Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.46Q1 | 4.90 0.27 up from 2012 | 621 | 37% | — | ||
18International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.45Q1 | 4.80 1.33 up from 2012 | 79 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
19Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 4.38Q1 | 4.60 0.15 up from 2012 | 205 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
20Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 5.72 0.43 up from 2012 | 367 | 36% | $3,580 | ||
21School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.24Q1 | 3.33 0.26 down from 2012 | 65 | 16% | — | ||
22Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.22Q1 | 6.78 0.62 up from 2012 | 46 | 35% | $4,330 | ||
23Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.19Q1 | 6.68 0.67 up from 2012 | 315 | 52% | — | ||
24Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 4.73 1.21 up from 2012 | 167 | 45% | $3,700 | ||
25Written Language & LiteracyJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.16Q1 | 3.36 3.02 up from 2012 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
26Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 6.38 0.35 down from 2012 | 276 | 73% | $3,550 | ||
27Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 4.07Q1 | 5.59 0.21 down from 2012 | 395 | 67% | $2,490 | ||
28World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 3.99Q1 | 6.44 1.30 up from 2012 | 189 | 94% | — | ||
29American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.99Q1 | 6.99 0.53 down from 2012 | 861 | 29% | — | ||
30Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.91Q1 | 2.77 0.45 down from 2012 | 176 | 22% | $3,760 | ||
31Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.86Q1 | 3.00 0.48 down from 2012 | 88 | 17% | $4,720 | ||
32Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.78Q1 | 2.88 0.32 down from 2012 | 77 | 16% | — | ||
33Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.75Q1 | 4.94 0.43 down from 2012 | 118 | 19% | — | ||
34Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 5.32 0.49 up from 2012 | 257 | 45% | $4,140 | ||
35Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 6.89 0.91 down from 2012 | 58 | 37% | $3,990 | ||
36Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.58Q1 | 4.17 0.22 down from 2012 | 92 | 9% | $4,790 | ||
37Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.57Q1 | 3.44 0.05 up from 2012 | 179 | 19% | $3,530 | ||
38Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.42Q1 | 1.41 0.31 up from 2012 | 61 | 11% | — | ||
39Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.23 0.69 up from 2012 | 88 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
40Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 5.09 1.58 up from 2012 | 207 | 33% | $3,600 | ||
41Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.31Q1 | 9.54 0.04 down from 2012 | 256 | 23% | $5,270 | ||
42Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 1.84 0.81 up from 2012 | 59 | 22% | $2,760 | ||
43Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.25Q1 | 2.70 0.58 down from 2012 | 388 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
44Frontiers in Evolutionary NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 3.23Q1 | 4.78 2.28 up from 2012 | 32 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
45Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 2.37 0.03 down from 2012 | 159 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
46Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 3.56 0.79 down from 2012 | 339 | 29% | $3,120 | ||
47PsychotherapyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.17Q1 | 5.08 0.69 up from 2012 | 197 | 7% | — | ||
48Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 2.20 0.24 down from 2012 | 184 | 20% | $2,780 | ||
49Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.22 0.25 down from 2012 | 249 | 24% | $3,780 | ||
50Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.10Q1 | 4.72 1.67 up from 2012 | 110 | 20% | — |
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
201 additional Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 836
- Window papers (baseline)
- 259,850 +22.5% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.0183 +10.7% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.