Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2018
575 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 575 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.59. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, World Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
575 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.50Q1 | 21.07 4.41 up from 2017 | 130 | 31% | — | ||
2World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.22Q1 | 10.89 2.24 up from 2017 | 289 | 97% | — | ||
3JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.90Q1 | 8.97 0.81 down from 2017 | 802 | 64% | — | ||
4Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 5.39Q1 | 6.48 1.82 up from 2017 | 208 | 100% | $916 | ||
5American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.39Q1 | 3.63 0.75 down from 2017 | 419 | 27% | — | ||
6Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.23Q1 | 7.72 2.00 up from 2017 | 285 | 43% | — | ||
7Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 6.97 0.66 down from 2017 | 366 | 60% | $4,530 | ||
8American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.04 0.28 up from 2017 | 648 | 68% | — | ||
9Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.84Q1 | 6.17 0.38 down from 2017 | 293 | 51% | — | ||
10The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 6.13 2.21 up from 2017 | 142 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
11Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.69Q1 | 4.49 0.25 up from 2017 | 566 | 40% | — | ||
12Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.71 0.13 up from 2017 | 404 | 50% | $3,580 | ||
13Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.39 0.04 down from 2017 | 320 | 24% | $4,990 | ||
14Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.27 0.49 up from 2017 | 164 | 29% | — | ||
15Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 6.39 0.55 up from 2017 | 128 | 100% | — | ||
16European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 4.52 0.18 down from 2017 | 132 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
17Child MaltreatmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.30Q1 | 3.70 1.25 up from 2017 | 127 | 48% | $3,900 | ||
18Body ImageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 4.66 0.05 down from 2017 | 252 | 38% | $4,250 | ||
19Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 4.32no change | 830 | 33% | $3,670 | ||
20The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 5.89 1.10 up from 2017 | 946 | 48% | $7,280 | ||
21Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 4.08 0.68 up from 2017 | 175 | 40% | $3,780 | ||
22Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion DysregulationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 4.35 0.42 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
23Child Abuse & NeglectElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.45 0.61 down from 2017 | 696 | 38% | $4,050 | ||
24Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.50 0.59 up from 2017 | 535 | 43% | $3,890 | ||
25Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 3.69 0.92 up from 2017 | 450 | 32% | $3,150 | ||
26Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.87Q1 | 12.32 1.17 down from 2017 | 250 | 39% | $5,270 | ||
27Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.86Q1 | 3.63 0.44 down from 2017 | 458 | 27% | — | ||
28Journal of Research in PersonalityElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 4.27 0.90 up from 2017 | 236 | 27% | $3,330 | ||
29International Journal of Eating DisordersWiley · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.63 0.14 up from 2017 | 397 | 45% | $4,300 | ||
30Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.80Q1 | 6.44 0.05 up from 2017 | 216 | 34% | — | ||
31Applied Psychology Health and Well-BeingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 4.16 0.47 up from 2017 | 52 | 32% | $3,920 | ||
32Journal of Traumatic StressWiley · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 2.52 1.24 down from 2017 | 243 | 45% | $3,120 | ||
33Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 3.84 0.01 up from 2017 | 275 | 64% | — | ||
34Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 6.21 0.08 up from 2017 | 340 | 81% | $2,490 | ||
35Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.74Q1 | 4.21 0.09 down from 2017 | 241 | 47% | $3,900 | ||
36Health Psychology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 9.43 2.36 down from 2017 | 62 | 66% | — | ||
37Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.69Q1 | 19.39 0.39 down from 2017 | 62 | 54% | — | ||
38The Journal of Sex ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.65Q1 | 3.98 0.88 up from 2017 | 296 | 42% | — | ||
39Journal of Personality DisordersGuilford Press · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.90 0.42 down from 2017 | 164 | 25% | — | ||
40Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.57Q1 | 4.28 0.13 down from 2017 | 456 | 50% | $4,390 | ||
41Suicide and Life-Threatening BehaviorWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.77 1.01 up from 2017 | 223 | 37% | $3,700 | ||
42European Journal of Education and PsychologyOAAutonomous University of Chile · Chile | 2.56Q1 | 2.40 0.31 up from 2017 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
43Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.16 0.44 down from 2017 | 146 | 23% | — | ||
44Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.28 0.06 down from 2017 | 954 | 69% | $3,550 | ||
45Family ProcessWiley · United States | 2.51Q1 | 3.75 0.53 up from 2017 | 193 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
46International Journal of Clinical and Health PsychologyOAElsevier BV · Spain | 2.48Q1 | 3.74 0.56 down from 2017 | 94 | 100% | $2,970 | ||
47Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 4.84 0.14 up from 2017 | 219 | 22% | — | ||
48AppetiteElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 4.23 0.40 up from 2017 | 1,344 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
49Journal of Family PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.88 0.14 up from 2017 | 331 | 44% | — | ||
50European Journal of PsychotraumatologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.47Q1 | 3.76 0.92 down from 2017 | 251 | 100% | $1,704 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology575
- Social Psychology193
- Developmental and Educational Psychology117
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology99
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
150 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 575
- Window papers (baseline)
- 123,807 +17.5% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.856 -6.6% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.