Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Psychology journal rankings 2017
976 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 976 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.69. The top three are Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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.
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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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1Therapeutic Recreation JournalUnited States | 15.84Q1 | 0.45 32.42 down from 2016 | 77 | 10% | — | ||
2Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.66Q1 | 11.77 1.40 up from 2016 | 210 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.38Q1 | 8.50 0.16 up from 2016 | 360 | 27% | — | ||
4Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.38Q1 | 16.66 2.21 down from 2016 | 131 | 39% | — | ||
5Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.87Q1 | 8.94 3.09 up from 2016 | 109 | 36% | — | ||
6World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 5.63Q1 | 8.65 0.68 up from 2016 | 276 | 97% | — | ||
7JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.62Q1 | 9.78 0.62 down from 2016 | 752 | 56% | — | ||
8Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 5.52Q1 | 3.68 0.48 up from 2016 | 61 | 10% | — | ||
9Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.30Q1 | 5.57 0.90 up from 2016 | 100 | 43% | — | ||
10Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.79Q1 | 3.96 1.22 down from 2016 | 148 | 31% | $4,720 | ||
11Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 4.81 1.06 down from 2016 | 148 | 41% | $3,700 | ||
12Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 4.76Q1 | 4.66 1.51 down from 2016 | 162 | 100% | $916 | ||
13Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 4.56 0.80 down from 2016 | 455 | 52% | $4,320 | ||
14European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 4.70 0.55 down from 2016 | 122 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
15Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.57Q1 | 6.23 1.02 down from 2016 | 66 | 29% | $4,330 | ||
16Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.33Q1 | 3.28 0.95 down from 2016 | 79 | 31% | $3,530 | ||
17Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 2.21 1.63 up from 2016 | 68 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
18Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 7.63 0.76 up from 2016 | 366 | 62% | $4,530 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.09Q1 | 5.65 0.08 down from 2016 | 166 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
20Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 3.05 0.05 down from 2016 | 124 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
21American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.94Q1 | 4.38 0.15 up from 2016 | 418 | 24% | — | ||
22American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.90Q1 | 7.76 0.68 up from 2016 | 705 | 74% | — | ||
23Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.90 0.97 up from 2016 | 45 | 53% | $2,760 | ||
24Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.83Q1 | 6.54 0.12 up from 2016 | 301 | 50% | — | ||
25ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.37 1.38 down from 2016 | 81 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
26Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.78Q1 | 3.59 0.08 down from 2016 | 151 | 34% | — | ||
27JMIR Serious GamesOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 3.77Q1 | 5.26 0.61 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
28Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 5.58 0.04 up from 2016 | 391 | 53% | $3,580 | ||
29Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 7.24 0.19 down from 2016 | 1,224 | 98% | — | ||
30Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.69Q1 | 4.24 0.10 up from 2016 | 497 | 43% | — | ||
31Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.69Q1 | 5.38 1.28 up from 2016 | 187 | 16% | — | ||
32Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.63Q1 | 5.48 0.25 up from 2016 | 137 | 29% | $4,790 | ||
33International Journal of Language and CultureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 4.38 3.72 up from 2016 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
34Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.54Q1 | 3.66 0.24 up from 2016 | 163 | 24% | $3,760 | ||
35Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.48Q1 | 5.72 0.07 up from 2016 | 296 | 43% | — | ||
36Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.44Q1 | 6.43 0.68 up from 2016 | 313 | 33% | $4,990 | ||
37Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.38Q1 | 3.78 0.21 up from 2016 | 165 | 37% | — | ||
38Journal of Aging StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 2.32 0.23 down from 2016 | 154 | 18% | $3,340 | ||
39Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 3.34 0.32 up from 2016 | 89 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
40Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.22Q1 | 3.54 0.21 up from 2016 | 175 | 19% | $3,530 | ||
41Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.20Q1 | 4.31 1.43 down from 2016 | 209 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
42Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.17Q1 | 3.40 0.44 down from 2016 | 188 | 32% | $3,780 | ||
43Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 3.84 0.34 down from 2016 | 303 | 67% | — | ||
44JMIR Mental HealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 3.13Q1 | 6.75 1.38 up from 2016 | 80 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
45Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.12Q1 | 1.42 0.41 down from 2016 | 67 | 9% | — | ||
46Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 5.84 0.61 up from 2016 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
47Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 6.14 0.41 up from 2016 | 321 | 78% | $2,490 | ||
48Human Resource Development ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.07Q1 | 3.38 0.34 up from 2016 | 51 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
49Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.06Q1 | 3.44 0.31 down from 2016 | 54 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
50Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.05Q1 | 4.07 0.44 up from 2016 | 480 | 30% | — |
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.
247 additional 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
- 976
- Window papers (baseline)
- 323,270 +18.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.001 -1.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 519 | 548 | 577 | 590 | 609 | 627 | 650 | 677 | 713 | 736 | 759 | 789 | 812 | 836 | 872 | 914 | 953 | 976 | 1,000 | 1,008 | 1,032 | 1,032 | 1,044 | 1,049 | 1,036 | 1,032 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 100,368 | 108,714 | 116,356 | 126,019 | 132,361 | 141,328 | 150,104 | 163,997 | 178,881 | 196,566 | 212,190 | 230,053 | 245,061 | 259,850 | 274,026 | 290,061 | 308,630 | 323,270 | 336,144 | 346,025 | 361,777 | 394,757 | 437,922 | 469,605 | 479,050 | 491,558 | |
| Median OJR | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.83 | 0.867 | 0.90 | 0.920 | 0.94 | 1.0178 | 1.0183 | 1.017 | 1.01 | 1.003 | 1.001 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.872 | 0.869 | 0.915 | 0.9249 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.9% | 730 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.819 per 1,000 | 625 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.9% | 962 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 55.7% | 1,032 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 484 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 21.7% | 951 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.1% | 1,032 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.96 | 1,023 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 36.5% | 1,032 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.5% | 1,030 journals |
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.