Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2017
555 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 555 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, World Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
555 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.38Q1 | 16.66 2.21 down from 2016 | 131 | 39% | — | ||
2World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 5.63Q1 | 8.65 0.68 up from 2016 | 276 | 97% | — | ||
3JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.62Q1 | 9.78 0.62 down from 2016 | 752 | 56% | — | ||
4Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 4.76Q1 | 4.66 1.51 down from 2016 | 162 | 100% | $916 | ||
5European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 4.70 0.55 down from 2016 | 122 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 7.63 0.76 up from 2016 | 366 | 62% | $4,530 | ||
7American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.94Q1 | 4.38 0.15 up from 2016 | 418 | 24% | — | ||
8American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.90Q1 | 7.76 0.68 up from 2016 | 705 | 74% | — | ||
9Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.83Q1 | 6.54 0.12 up from 2016 | 301 | 50% | — | ||
10Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.78Q1 | 3.59 0.08 down from 2016 | 151 | 34% | — | ||
11Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 5.58 0.04 up from 2016 | 391 | 53% | $3,580 | ||
12Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.69Q1 | 4.24 0.10 up from 2016 | 497 | 43% | — | ||
13Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.48Q1 | 5.72 0.07 up from 2016 | 296 | 43% | — | ||
14Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.44Q1 | 6.43 0.68 up from 2016 | 313 | 33% | $4,990 | ||
15Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.38Q1 | 3.78 0.21 up from 2016 | 165 | 37% | — | ||
16Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.20Q1 | 4.31 1.43 down from 2016 | 209 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
17Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.17Q1 | 3.40 0.44 down from 2016 | 188 | 32% | $3,780 | ||
18Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 3.84 0.34 down from 2016 | 303 | 67% | — | ||
19Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 5.84 0.61 up from 2016 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
20Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 6.14 0.41 up from 2016 | 321 | 78% | $2,490 | ||
21Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.05Q1 | 4.07 0.44 up from 2016 | 480 | 30% | — | ||
22Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 2.99Q1 | 4.32 0.68 down from 2016 | 783 | 39% | $3,670 | ||
23Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.99Q1 | 13.49 0.36 up from 2016 | 212 | 47% | $5,270 | ||
24Applied Psychology Health and Well-BeingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.69 0.85 up from 2016 | 52 | 43% | $3,920 | ||
25Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 4.06 1.05 up from 2016 | 567 | 31% | $4,050 | ||
26Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 2.96Q1 | 3.36 0.70 down from 2016 | 254 | 44% | $3,330 | ||
27The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.78 0.72 up from 2016 | 834 | 49% | $7,280 | ||
28Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 2.91 0.42 down from 2016 | 522 | 39% | $3,890 | ||
29Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 4.69 0.55 down from 2016 | 216 | 26% | — | ||
30Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.86Q1 | 2.44 0.19 up from 2016 | 123 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
31Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.80Q1 | 6.40 2.01 up from 2016 | 223 | 34% | — | ||
32Behavior TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.73 0.27 down from 2016 | 238 | 39% | $3,600 | ||
33Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 3.75 0.07 down from 2016 | 260 | 35% | $3,120 | ||
34ParentingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 2.71 0.33 up from 2016 | 49 | 35% | — | ||
35Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.77Q1 | 2.74 0.04 up from 2016 | 350 | 38% | — | ||
36International Review of PsychiatryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 4.35 0.88 up from 2016 | 183 | 39% | — | ||
37Research on Child and Adolescent PsychopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 3.67 0.16 down from 2016 | 388 | 59% | $2,990 | ||
38International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.49 0.06 up from 2016 | 388 | 43% | $4,300 | ||
39Family RelationsWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 2.78 0.16 up from 2016 | 151 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
40Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 5.34 0.11 down from 2016 | 869 | 70% | $3,550 | ||
41Psychological ServicesAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.65Q1 | 2.81 0.13 up from 2016 | 131 | 29% | — | ||
42Body ImageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.71 0.65 up from 2016 | 259 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
43Development and PsychopathologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.83 0.03 down from 2016 | 403 | 70% | $3,550 | ||
44Conflict and HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 4.07 1.28 up from 2016 | 96 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
45Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.61Q1 | 19.78 5.61 up from 2016 | 58 | 70% | — | ||
46The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal ContextOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 2.61Q1 | 4.42 1.42 up from 2016 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
47PsychiatryTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.60Q1 | 2.05 1.65 down from 2016 | 107 | 20% | — | ||
48Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.03 0.38 down from 2016 | 400 | 44% | — | ||
49European Journal of PsychotraumatologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 4.68 1.12 up from 2016 | 241 | 100% | $1,704 | ||
50PsychotherapyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.13 0.44 down from 2016 | 153 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology555
- Social Psychology188
- Developmental and Educational Psychology121
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology97
- Applied Psychology10
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
142 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 555
- Window papers (baseline)
- 118,018 +19.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.89 -4.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.