Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2016
548 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 548 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.65. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, JAMA Psychiatry, and Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
548 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.65Q1 | 18.87 4.62 up from 2015 | 154 | 37% | — | ||
2JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.81Q1 | 10.40 0.03 down from 2015 | 674 | 50% | — | ||
3Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 5.47Q1 | 6.17 0.88 up from 2015 | 99 | 100% | $916 | ||
4European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 4.54Q1 | 3.06 0.88 down from 2015 | 110 | 14% | — | ||
5American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.47Q1 | 4.23 0.65 up from 2015 | 410 | 15% | — | ||
6Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.37Q1 | 5.74 1.71 down from 2015 | 205 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
7World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 4.26Q1 | 7.97 1.40 up from 2015 | 267 | 98% | — | ||
8European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 5.25 0.14 down from 2015 | 125 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
9American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 4.09Q1 | 7.08 1.15 down from 2015 | 729 | 72% | — | ||
10Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.89Q1 | 6.43 0.03 down from 2015 | 307 | 60% | — | ||
11Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 6.87no change | 372 | 60% | $4,530 | ||
12Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.83Q1 | 4.15 0.01 down from 2015 | 491 | 48% | — | ||
13Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.68Q1 | 5.65 1.08 down from 2015 | 263 | 49% | — | ||
14Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.54 0.20 down from 2015 | 390 | 49% | $3,580 | ||
15Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.18 0.60 down from 2015 | 291 | 65% | — | ||
16Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 3.34Q1 | 5.01 0.09 up from 2015 | 817 | 38% | $3,670 | ||
17Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.28Q1 | 13.13 0.28 up from 2015 | 206 | 58% | $5,270 | ||
18Trauma Violence & AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.23Q1 | 3.85 0.12 down from 2015 | 135 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
19Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.21Q1 | 3.68 0.03 down from 2015 | 147 | 35% | — | ||
20Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 3.86 0.71 down from 2015 | 403 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
21Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 3.20Q1 | 3.82 0.97 down from 2015 | 295 | 38% | $3,120 | ||
22Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.17Q1 | 3.33 0.53 down from 2015 | 494 | 44% | $3,890 | ||
23Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 3.83 0.28 down from 2015 | 385 | 61% | $2,990 | ||
24Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 3.07Q1 | 4.07 0.52 up from 2015 | 244 | 42% | $3,330 | ||
25PsychiatryTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.03Q1 | 3.70 0.18 up from 2015 | 89 | 16% | — | ||
26Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.99Q1 | 3.83 0.77 up from 2015 | 192 | 42% | $3,780 | ||
27International Journal of Stress ManagementAmerican Psychological Association · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 2.60 0.12 down from 2015 | 64 | 18% | — | ||
28Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.96Q1 | 5.75 1.13 up from 2015 | 299 | 26% | $4,990 | ||
29European Journal of Education and PsychologyOAAutonomous University of Chile · Chile | 2.94Q1 | 2.18 2.18 up from 2015 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 2.92Q1 | 2.63 0.57 down from 2015 | 239 | 50% | $3,400 | ||
31Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 3.01 0.60 down from 2015 | 606 | 36% | $4,050 | ||
32Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.91Q1 | 3.63 0.61 down from 2015 | 468 | 29% | — | ||
33Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 2.91Q1 | 5.73 0.17 down from 2015 | 374 | 82% | $2,490 | ||
34Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 4.00 0.56 down from 2015 | 215 | 26% | $3,600 | ||
35Family RelationsWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 2.62 0.78 up from 2015 | 165 | 35% | $3,590 | ||
36Clinical Child and Family Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 5.41 0.07 down from 2015 | 69 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
37American Journal of OrthopsychiatryAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.85Q1 | 2.72 0.30 up from 2015 | 212 | 27% | — | ||
38Journal of Clinical PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.81Q1 | 3.18 0.21 down from 2015 | 301 | 37% | $3,710 | ||
39Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 5.23 0.99 down from 2015 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
40Suicide and Life-Threatening BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 3.72 0.65 up from 2015 | 194 | 29% | $3,700 | ||
41Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 5.24 0.21 up from 2015 | 233 | 26% | — | ||
42The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 4.07 1.51 up from 2015 | 506 | 40% | $7,280 | ||
43International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 4.43 0.51 down from 2015 | 410 | 49% | $4,300 | ||
44Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.62 0.60 down from 2015 | 438 | 37% | $3,150 | ||
45Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.73Q1 | 4.41 0.02 up from 2015 | 429 | 37% | — | ||
46Sexual AbuseSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.71Q1 | 2.98 0.68 up from 2015 | 129 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
47Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 5.45 0.04 down from 2015 | 840 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
48AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.45 1.64 down from 2015 | 235 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
49Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.60Q1 | 4.17 1.24 down from 2015 | 619 | 9% | $3,710 | ||
50Harvard Review of PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.54Q1 | 4.32 0.53 up from 2015 | 102 | 28% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology548
- Social Psychology183
- Developmental and Educational Psychology116
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology92
- Applied Psychology9
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
112 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 548
- Window papers (baseline)
- 112,078 +20.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.927 -2.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 | 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.