Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Social Psychology journal rankings 2014
173 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 173 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2013 to 1.04, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
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.
Subfields of Psychology (7)
173 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 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 | ||
2Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.30Q1 | 6.82 0.86 down from 2013 | 426 | 27% | — | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.76Q1 | 4.34 0.83 down from 2013 | 172 | 14% | — | ||
4Journal of Human-Robot InteractionUnited States | 4.47Q1 | 5.66 1.01 down from 2013 | 32 | 92% | — | ||
5Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 7.71 0.04 up from 2013 | 1,055 | 100% | — | ||
6Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.58 3.02 up from 2013 | 247 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
7Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 2.58 0.38 up from 2013 | 223 | 22% | $2,780 | ||
8International Journal of TransgenderismTaylor & Francis · Germany | 3.16Q1 | 5.35 0.79 up from 2013 | 37 | 8% | — | ||
9Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.80Q1 | 2.69 1.49 down from 2013 | 111 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
10Online Readings in Psychology and CultureOAPublisher not listed | 2.68Q1 | 2.48 0.29 up from 2013 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
11International Journal of WellbeingOAInternational Journal of Wellbeing · New Zealand | 2.67Q1 | 2.92 1.36 up from 2013 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
12The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 2.66Q1 | 3.21 0.16 down from 2013 | 157 | 26% | — | ||
13Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.07 0.05 up from 2013 | 216 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
14Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.58Q1 | 3.03 0.02 down from 2013 | 148 | 36% | $3,600 | ||
15Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 2.66 0.27 up from 2013 | 245 | 28% | $3,490 | ||
16Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.43Q1 | 5.07 0.10 up from 2013 | 510 | 34% | $3,640 | ||
17Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.24 0.19 down from 2013 | 186 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
18Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.14 1.06 up from 2013 | 118 | 47% | — | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.32Q1 | 3.61 1.07 up from 2013 | 64 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
20Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.25 0.62 down from 2013 | 88 | 20% | — | ||
21Couple and Family Psychology Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.00 0.13 down from 2013 | 54 | 22% | — | ||
22Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 1.61 0.02 down from 2013 | 85 | 16% | $3,290 | ||
23Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.49 0.11 up from 2013 | 104 | 11% | — | ||
24The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 1.81 0.41 down from 2013 | 114 | 16% | — | ||
25Journal of School ViolenceTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.49 0.22 down from 2013 | 81 | 5% | — | ||
26Communication EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.49 1.16 up from 2013 | 66 | 7% | — | ||
27International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 3.02 0.38 up from 2013 | 125 | 17% | $4,190 | ||
28Team Performance ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.75 0.40 up from 2013 | 67 | 14% | — | ||
29Journal of Marital and Family TherapyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.54 0.23 down from 2013 | 177 | 14% | $3,010 | ||
30Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.59 0.12 down from 2013 | 309 | 13% | — | ||
31Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.98Q1 | 1.88 0.40 up from 2013 | 56 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
32Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.82 0.15 up from 2013 | 288 | 27% | $1,500 | ||
33Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.40 0.05 down from 2013 | 430 | 25% | $3,400 | ||
34Qualitative Communication ResearchUniversity of California Press · United States | 1.94Q1 | 0.89 0.50 up from 2013 | 46 | — | — | ||
35Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.93Q1 | 1.68 0.24 down from 2013 | 68 | 13% | — | ||
36Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision MakingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.76 1.12 up from 2013 | 59 | 25% | $1,500 | ||
37New Ideas in PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.13 0.71 up from 2013 | 81 | 25% | $3,600 | ||
38Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.77 0.05 down from 2013 | 101 | 30% | $2,990 | ||
39Humor - International Journal of Humor ResearchDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.82Q1 | 1.22 0.21 down from 2013 | 84 | 16% | $2,712 | ||
40International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.98 0.05 up from 2013 | 203 | 10% | — | ||
41Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.93 0.29 up from 2013 | 180 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
42Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.09 0.07 down from 2013 | 189 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
43Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.73Q1 | 1.60 0.35 down from 2013 | 100 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
44Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.67 0.33 up from 2013 | 90 | 15% | — | ||
45Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 2.17 0.13 up from 2013 | 69 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
46Canadian Journal of School PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.69Q2 | 2.02 0.02 up from 2013 | 60 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
47Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 1.80no change | 110 | 10% | $3,140 | ||
48International Journal of Mental Health SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.83 0.14 up from 2013 | 83 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
49Journal of Family CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q2 | 1.58 0.55 up from 2013 | 55 | 9% | — | ||
50Journal of comparative psychologyPublisher not listed | 1.64Q2 | 2.74 0.45 up from 2013 | 157 | 30% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology487
- Social Psychology173
- Developmental and Educational Psychology113
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology85
- Applied Psychology8
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology2
Journals
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.
48 additional Social 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
- 173
- Window papers (baseline)
- 80,841 +19.4% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.04 +9.3% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.