Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2017
97 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 97 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016. A journal needs OJR 1.78 to reach Q1. The top three are Psychological Methods, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics.
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)
97 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 MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.87Q1 | 8.94 3.09 up from 2016 | 109 | 36% | — | ||
2Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.79Q1 | 3.96 1.22 down from 2016 | 148 | 31% | $4,720 | ||
3Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 2.21 1.63 up from 2016 | 68 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.09Q1 | 5.65 0.08 down from 2016 | 166 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
5Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.90 0.97 up from 2016 | 45 | 53% | $2,760 | ||
6International Journal of Language and CultureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 4.38 3.72 up from 2016 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
7Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.22Q1 | 3.54 0.21 up from 2016 | 175 | 19% | $3,530 | ||
8British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 2.99 0.20 up from 2016 | 101 | 33% | $3,760 | ||
9Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.93Q1 | 3.90 0.36 down from 2016 | 227 | 46% | $4,330 | ||
10Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.74Q1 | 3.67 0.02 up from 2016 | 175 | 42% | — | ||
11EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.88 0.08 up from 2016 | 342 | 36% | — | ||
12Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.53Q1 | 1.54 0.64 down from 2016 | 81 | 21% | $0 listed | ||
13Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.46Q1 | 3.37 0.04 down from 2016 | 180 | 14% | — | ||
14Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2016 | 123 | 21% | $2,900 | ||
15Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.15 0.57 down from 2016 | 93 | 26% | $2,190 | ||
16SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 2.30Q1 | 5.05 0.52 down from 2016 | 804 | 35% | $4,388 | ||
17Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.23Q1 | 2.44 0.09 down from 2016 | 551 | 30% | $3,640 | ||
18Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.55 0.73 down from 2016 | 145 | 30% | $3,000 | ||
19Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 8.15 0.16 up from 2016 | 219 | 37% | $5,950 | ||
20Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 2.64 0.57 up from 2016 | 158 | 14% | $3,730 | ||
21The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.50 0.79 down from 2016 | 97 | 19% | — | ||
22International Review of PragmaticsBrill · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 1.27 0.51 up from 2016 | 42 | 21% | — | ||
23Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.41 0.21 down from 2016 | 225 | 42% | $4,090 | ||
24Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.10 0.18 up from 2016 | 191 | 30% | — | ||
25Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.45 0.89 up from 2016 | 150 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
26IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q2 | 3.24 0.16 up from 2016 | 329 | 31% | $3,530 | ||
27Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.67Q2 | 3.49 0.25 down from 2016 | 67 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
28Adaptive Human Behavior and PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q2 | 2.83 0.28 down from 2016 | 57 | 42% | $3,190 | ||
29Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 2.15 0.23 up from 2016 | 164 | 41% | — | ||
30Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.54Q2 | 2.34 0.78 up from 2016 | 49 | 19% | — | ||
31Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 3.20 0.37 down from 2016 | 330 | 64% | $4,340 | ||
32journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.67 0.07 up from 2016 | 63 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
33Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 2.24 0.15 down from 2016 | 157 | 49% | $3,210 | ||
34Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.06 0.72 up from 2016 | 111 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
35Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 3.05 0.56 down from 2016 | 931 | 8% | $4,350 | ||
36Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.41Q2 | 3.92 1.30 up from 2016 | 151 | 36% | $2,950 | ||
37Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.93 0.50 down from 2016 | 160 | 13% | — | ||
38Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 1.36Q2 | 1.67 0.08 down from 2016 | 49 | 100% | $551 | ||
39High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.44 0.43 down from 2016 | 38 | 33% | — | ||
40The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.78 0.35 up from 2016 | 96 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
41Journal of Dance Medicine & ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.33 0.07 down from 2016 | 58 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
42Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.93 0.19 up from 2016 | 67 | 18% | $1,400 | ||
43Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.99 0.21 down from 2016 | 413 | 31% | — | ||
44Journal for Person-Oriented ResearchOASweden | 1.18Q2 | 1.59 0.11 down from 2016 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
45Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesAmerican Psychological Association | 1.14Q2 | 1.85 0.37 up from 2016 | 87 | 23% | — | ||
46PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.18 0.02 down from 2016 | 72 | 43% | $3,550 | ||
47Multisensory ResearchBrill · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 2.91 0.84 up from 2016 | 89 | 34% | — | ||
48Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.44 0.03 down from 2016 | 73 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
49Evolutionary Psychological ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.02Q2 | 1.68 0.02 down from 2016 | 79 | 17% | $2,390 | ||
50Journal of World LanguagesOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.98Q3 | 0.38 0.13 up from 2016 | 38 | 100% | $0 listed |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive 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.
29 additional Experimental and Cognitive 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
- 97
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,491 +12.8% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.02 -23.5% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 46 | 46 | 49 | 50 | 52 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 92 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 102 | 105 | 104 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,729 | 15,884 | 17,225 | 18,824 | 19,987 | 21,367 | 23,176 | 25,747 | 28,755 | 31,869 | 34,468 | 37,293 | 39,972 | 42,003 | 43,859 | 45,321 | 48,043 | 49,491 | 50,738 | 51,227 | 53,198 | 56,392 | 60,486 | 63,684 | 65,590 | 68,101 | |
| Median OJR | 0.854 | 0.77 | 0.81 | 0.910 | 0.78 | 0.862 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.903 | 0.9999 | 1.04 | 1.20 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 1.33 | 1.09 | 0.99 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 0.860 | 0.94 | 0.902 | 0.906 | 0.82 | 0.848 | 0.856 |
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.