Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2013
Social Psychology journal rankings 2013
163 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 163 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2012 to 1.10, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
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.
Subfields of Psychology (7)
163 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.88Q1 | 14.78 5.31 up from 2012 | 198 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.62Q1 | 7.68 0.15 down from 2012 | 483 | 21% | — | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.32Q1 | 5.17 0.32 up from 2012 | 162 | 15% | — | ||
4Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.81Q1 | 4.18 1.35 down from 2012 | 103 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
5Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 7.67 0.27 down from 2012 | 1,034 | 99% | — | ||
6Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.78Q1 | 2.88 0.32 down from 2012 | 77 | 16% | — | ||
7Frontiers in Evolutionary NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 3.23Q1 | 4.78 2.28 up from 2012 | 32 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 2.20 0.24 down from 2012 | 184 | 20% | $2,780 | ||
9The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 3.00Q1 | 3.37 0.28 up from 2012 | 132 | 16% | — | ||
10Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.01 0.71 up from 2012 | 265 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
11Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.49Q1 | 3.05 0.37 down from 2012 | 131 | 30% | $3,600 | ||
12Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.97 0.77 up from 2012 | 555 | 37% | $3,640 | ||
13American Journal of PrimatologyWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.26 0.59 up from 2012 | 354 | 27% | $4,330 | ||
14International Journal of PrimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 3.56 1.36 up from 2012 | 245 | 25% | $3,890 | ||
15Couple and Family Psychology Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.13 2.01 down from 2012 | 30 | 32% | — | ||
16The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.21 0.75 up from 2012 | 95 | 10% | — | ||
17Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 2.09 0.22 down from 2012 | 110 | 32% | — | ||
18Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 2.33 0.22 up from 2012 | 79 | 6% | — | ||
19International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.64 0.13 down from 2012 | 119 | 50% | $4,190 | ||
20International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.93 0.21 down from 2012 | 195 | 17% | — | ||
21Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.71 0.10 up from 2012 | 237 | 8% | — | ||
22International Journal of TransgenderismTaylor & Francis · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 4.56 3.66 up from 2012 | 47 | 10% | — | ||
23Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.96 0.27 down from 2012 | 89 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 2.40 0.10 down from 2012 | 218 | 23% | $3,490 | ||
25Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 1.64 0.66 down from 2012 | 219 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
26Online Readings in Psychology and CultureOAPublisher not listed | 2.08Q1 | 2.19 1.08 up from 2012 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.43 0.36 up from 2012 | 203 | 11% | $2,900 | ||
28Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.66 0.22 up from 2012 | 243 | 22% | $1,500 | ||
29Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.98Q1 | 1.91 0.09 up from 2012 | 79 | 9% | — | ||
30Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.94 0.43 up from 2012 | 105 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
31Child Indicators ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 1.70 0.09 up from 2012 | 115 | 15% | $3,490 | ||
32Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 1.64 0.35 up from 2012 | 95 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
33Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.88 0.48 down from 2012 | 88 | 18% | — | ||
34Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.77 0.65 up from 2012 | 165 | 7% | $3,010 | ||
35Journal of School ViolenceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.71 1.32 up from 2012 | 65 | 15% | — | ||
36Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.56 0.96 up from 2012 | 228 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
37Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.45 0.18 up from 2012 | 374 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
38Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.38 0.04 up from 2012 | 59 | 17% | — | ||
39Journal of Music TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.50 1.21 up from 2012 | 72 | 0% | $3,737 | ||
40Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in LearningRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.30 0.12 down from 2012 | 76 | 10% | — | ||
41Developmental PsychobiologyWiley · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.98 0.33 down from 2012 | 300 | 39% | $3,760 | ||
42Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.74Q2 | 1.83 0.35 up from 2012 | 101 | 24% | $2,990 | ||
43International Journal of WellbeingOAInternational Journal of Wellbeing · New Zealand | 1.72Q2 | 1.56 0.36 up from 2012 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
44The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.68Q2 | 1.26 0.71 down from 2012 | 201 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
45Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 1.80 0.19 up from 2012 | 175 | 20% | $3,140 | ||
46Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q2 | 2.05 0.27 up from 2012 | 59 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
47Canadian Journal of School PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.64Q2 | 2.00 0.26 up from 2012 | 55 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
48Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.16 0.07 up from 2012 | 179 | 16% | $3,190 | ||
49Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.49 0.58 up from 2012 | 56 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
50Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.38 0.07 up from 2012 | 93 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology464
- Social Psychology163
- Developmental and Educational Psychology114
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology81
- Applied Psychology7
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology2
Journals
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.
53 additional Social 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
- 163
- Window papers (baseline)
- 76,793 +24.5% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.10 +28.2% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.