Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Field ranking · 2014
Psychology journal rankings 2014
872 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 872 ranked journals in 2014. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, unchanged on 2013. A journal needs OJR 1.82 to reach Q1. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, and Cognitive Linguistics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.89Q1 | 12.67 2.10 down from 2013 | 201 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
2Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.09Q1 | 8.74 0.64 up from 2013 | 121 | 25% | — | ||
3Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 7.00Q1 | 4.97 3.85 up from 2013 | 68 | 26% | $0 listed | ||
4JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.79Q1 | 10.88 2.76 down from 2013 | 232 | 44% | — | ||
5Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.52Q1 | 14.18 0.40 down from 2013 | 194 | 39% | — | ||
6Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 6.43Q1 | 4.61 0.47 down from 2013 | 71 | 23% | $3,530 | ||
7Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.30Q1 | 6.82 0.86 down from 2013 | 426 | 27% | — | ||
8Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 5.18 0.82 down from 2013 | 553 | 51% | $4,320 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.36Q1 | 5.01 3.48 down from 2013 | 105 | 40% | $2,645 | ||
10Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 5.30Q1 | 3.62 0.30 down from 2013 | 143 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
11Language LearningWiley · United States | 5.03Q1 | 3.43 0.66 up from 2013 | 153 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
12ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 3.07 0.61 up from 2013 | 79 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.90Q1 | 3.91 0.20 down from 2013 | 53 | 11% | — | ||
14Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.76Q1 | 4.34 0.83 down from 2013 | 172 | 14% | — | ||
15Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.74Q1 | 7.26 0.34 down from 2013 | 314 | 58% | — | ||
16Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.49Q1 | 6.04 2.34 up from 2013 | 74 | 60% | $3,900 | ||
17Journal of Human-Robot InteractionUnited States | 4.47Q1 | 5.66 1.01 down from 2013 | 32 | 92% | — | ||
18Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 4.45Q1 | 2.69 1.91 down from 2013 | 218 | 41% | $3,400 | ||
19American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.30Q1 | 3.11 0.84 down from 2013 | 428 | 11% | — | ||
20Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 5.25 0.52 up from 2013 | 168 | 41% | $3,700 | ||
21Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.27Q1 | 4.97 0.07 up from 2013 | 615 | 37% | — | ||
22American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 4.21Q1 | 7.84 0.84 up from 2013 | 794 | 28% | — | ||
23Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.20Q1 | 5.97 0.81 down from 2013 | 43 | 35% | $4,330 | ||
24Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.19Q1 | 3.90 0.83 down from 2013 | 105 | 27% | — | ||
25Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.14Q1 | 8.01 0.65 up from 2013 | 373 | 63% | $4,530 | ||
26Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 4.39 0.70 down from 2013 | 225 | 36% | $3,600 | ||
27Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.04Q1 | 7.45 0.77 up from 2013 | 284 | 45% | — | ||
28International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.03Q1 | 3.64 1.16 down from 2013 | 78 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
29Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 7.71 0.04 up from 2013 | 1,055 | 100% | — | ||
30Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 5.20 0.53 down from 2013 | 332 | 43% | $3,580 | ||
31Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.58 3.02 up from 2013 | 247 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
32Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.63Q1 | 3.07 1.16 down from 2013 | 83 | 34% | $3,900 | ||
33Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.58Q1 | 2.52 0.15 up from 2013 | 174 | 18% | $3,590 | ||
34Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 4.62 1.76 down from 2013 | 331 | 72% | $3,550 | ||
35DyslexiaWiley · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 4.03 1.74 up from 2013 | 54 | 25% | $3,460 | ||
36School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.49Q1 | 3.64 0.31 up from 2013 | 80 | 12% | — | ||
37Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.47Q1 | 4.08 1.34 up from 2013 | 52 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
38International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric ResearchOAWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 5.31 0.41 up from 2013 | 92 | 90% | $4,070 | ||
39World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 3.33Q1 | 4.80 1.64 down from 2013 | 214 | 97% | — | ||
40Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 4.38 0.32 up from 2013 | 285 | 65% | — | ||
41Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 3.31Q1 | 5.66 0.07 up from 2013 | 438 | 54% | $2,490 | ||
42Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.28Q1 | 3.38 0.68 up from 2013 | 452 | 37% | $3,890 | ||
43PsychotherapyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.27Q1 | 2.14 2.94 down from 2013 | 255 | 10% | — | ||
44Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.25Q1 | 3.98 0.57 up from 2013 | 86 | 43% | — | ||
45Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.25Q1 | 3.45 0.01 up from 2013 | 197 | 17% | $3,530 | ||
46Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 3.25 0.48 up from 2013 | 331 | 27% | $3,150 | ||
47Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 2.58 0.38 up from 2013 | 223 | 22% | $2,780 | ||
48Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 4.62 2.28 down from 2013 | 75 | 46% | $3,990 | ||
49Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.21Q1 | 3.98 0.50 down from 2013 | 66 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
50Scandinavian Journal of Public HealthSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 2.63 1.90 down from 2013 | 420 | 21% | $4,400 |
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
215 additional Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 872
- Window papers (baseline)
- 274,026 +19.1% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.017 +7.8% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.