Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2015
510 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 510 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.69. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, JAMA Psychiatry, and Clinical Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
510 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.60Q1 | 14.25 0.07 up from 2014 | 181 | 32% | — | ||
2JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.42Q1 | 10.44 0.44 down from 2014 | 475 | 53% | — | ||
3Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.72Q1 | 7.44 1.40 up from 2014 | 143 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.61Q1 | 6.74 0.71 down from 2014 | 244 | 53% | — | ||
5Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.44Q1 | 4.16 0.81 down from 2014 | 553 | 51% | — | ||
6Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.41Q1 | 3.97 0.01 down from 2014 | 95 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
7European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 4.26Q1 | 3.94 1.62 up from 2014 | 104 | 15% | — | ||
8American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.25Q1 | 3.58 0.48 up from 2014 | 411 | 16% | — | ||
9American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 4.22Q1 | 8.23 0.39 up from 2014 | 759 | 40% | — | ||
10Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 6.87 1.14 down from 2014 | 380 | 59% | $4,530 | ||
11Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.04Q1 | 6.46 0.80 down from 2014 | 331 | 66% | — | ||
12Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 3.94Q1 | 5.29 2.63 up from 2014 | 89 | 100% | $916 | ||
13World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 3.94Q1 | 6.57 1.77 up from 2014 | 241 | 97% | — | ||
14International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric ResearchOAWiley · United States | 3.77Q1 | 4.03 1.28 down from 2014 | 101 | 90% | $4,070 | ||
15Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 5.74 0.54 up from 2014 | 352 | 53% | $3,580 | ||
16Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 4.57 0.05 down from 2014 | 374 | 74% | $3,550 | ||
17Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.53Q1 | 3.87 0.49 up from 2014 | 490 | 41% | $3,890 | ||
18Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 4.79 1.06 up from 2014 | 323 | 31% | $3,120 | ||
19Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 5.48 0.86 up from 2014 | 66 | 41% | $3,990 | ||
20Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 5.89 0.24 up from 2014 | 395 | 77% | $2,490 | ||
21Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 4.78 0.40 up from 2014 | 300 | 53% | — | ||
22Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.24Q1 | 12.85 2.26 up from 2014 | 197 | 35% | $5,270 | ||
23Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 3.20 0.51 up from 2014 | 246 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
24ParentingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 2.65 0.19 up from 2014 | 55 | 35% | — | ||
25Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 3.13Q1 | 4.92 0.46 up from 2014 | 810 | 63% | $3,670 | ||
26Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 4.56 0.17 up from 2014 | 199 | 38% | $3,600 | ||
27Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 3.22 0.03 down from 2014 | 378 | 34% | $3,150 | ||
28Family RelationsWiley · United States | 3.07Q1 | 1.84 0.68 down from 2014 | 180 | 20% | $3,590 | ||
29Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 3.61 0.10 down from 2014 | 491 | 36% | $4,050 | ||
30International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 4.95 0.81 up from 2014 | 389 | 45% | $4,300 | ||
31Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 6.22 0.96 up from 2014 | 128 | 100% | — | ||
32Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 4.11 0.37 down from 2014 | 338 | 60% | $2,990 | ||
33Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses AssociationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.00Q1 | 5.37 1.56 up from 2014 | 91 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
34Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.98Q1 | 3.07 0.10 down from 2014 | 205 | 36% | $3,780 | ||
35Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.78 0.81 up from 2014 | 144 | 41% | — | ||
36PsychiatryTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.53 0.14 up from 2014 | 84 | 26% | — | ||
37Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.94Q1 | 3.05 0.02 down from 2014 | 93 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.94Q1 | 5.41 0.51 up from 2014 | 624 | 37% | $3,710 | ||
39Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 5.03 0.11 down from 2014 | 252 | 14% | — | ||
40American Journal of OrthopsychiatryAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.90Q1 | 2.42 0.30 down from 2014 | 195 | 26% | — | ||
41European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 5.40 2.30 up from 2014 | 138 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
42School Psychology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.40 0.12 up from 2014 | 115 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
43Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.24 0.72 up from 2014 | 338 | 33% | — | ||
44AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.75Q1 | 4.10 0.11 down from 2014 | 186 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
45The Journal of Sex ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.75Q1 | 3.36 0.29 up from 2014 | 234 | 35% | — | ||
46Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.73Q1 | 2.96no change | 321 | 46% | — | ||
47Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.72Q1 | 4.39 0.44 up from 2014 | 424 | 54% | — | ||
48Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.69Q1 | 3.71 1.16 up from 2014 | 131 | 31% | — | ||
49Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 2.69Q1 | 3.54 0.36 up from 2014 | 277 | 25% | $3,330 | ||
50Journal of Clinical PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.39 0.20 up from 2014 | 333 | 12% | $3,710 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology510
- Social Psychology184
- Developmental and Educational Psychology117
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology89
- Applied Psychology9
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
124 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 510
- Window papers (baseline)
- 105,346 +19.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.92 -7.3% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 287 | 302 | 320 | 325 | 339 | 349 | 363 | 382 | 396 | 413 | 420 | 438 | 446 | 464 | 487 | 510 | 548 | 555 | 575 | 585 | 599 | 603 | 606 | 609 | 608 | 604 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 37,390 | 40,536 | 43,747 | 47,449 | 50,051 | 53,618 | 57,030 | 62,351 | 67,335 | 72,932 | 77,786 | 83,488 | 88,110 | 93,352 | 98,804 | 105,346 | 112,078 | 118,018 | 123,807 | 127,821 | 132,968 | 149,239 | 173,392 | 190,132 | 192,236 | 190,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.69 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.718 | 0.720 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.874 | 0.865 | 0.870 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.929 | 0.92 | 0.927 | 0.89 | 0.856 | 0.84 | 0.871 | 0.78 | 0.76 | 0.80 | 0.862 | 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.