Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2018
99 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 99 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.01 against 1.00, unchanged on 2017. A journal needs OJR 1.72 to reach Q1. The top three are Psychological Methods, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Language and Linguistics Compass.
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)
99 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 MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.58Q1 | 7.96 0.98 down from 2017 | 137 | 40% | — | ||
2Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 3.98 0.02 up from 2017 | 165 | 35% | $4,720 | ||
3Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 3.30 1.46 up from 2017 | 99 | 20% | $2,900 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.25Q1 | 4.68 0.97 down from 2017 | 223 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
5Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 4.44 0.90 up from 2017 | 151 | 25% | $3,530 | ||
6Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.99Q1 | 4.29 0.39 up from 2017 | 207 | 38% | $4,330 | ||
7Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.85Q1 | 4.02 0.65 up from 2017 | 183 | 15% | — | ||
8Journal of Second Language PronunciationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 3.64 2.61 up from 2017 | 57 | 5% | — | ||
9British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.09 0.10 up from 2017 | 132 | 40% | $3,760 | ||
10Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 2.57Q1 | 1.00 0.90 down from 2017 | 47 | 27% | $2,760 | ||
11Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.98 0.69 down from 2017 | 187 | 41% | — | ||
12Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 3.64 1.00 up from 2017 | 183 | 33% | $3,730 | ||
13Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.59 0.96 down from 2017 | 240 | 37% | $3,000 | ||
14EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.20Q1 | 3.59 0.29 down from 2017 | 368 | 30% | — | ||
15Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.85 0.41 up from 2017 | 542 | 38% | $3,640 | ||
16The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.14 0.64 up from 2017 | 118 | 18% | — | ||
17Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.14Q1 | 2.85 0.70 up from 2017 | 85 | 28% | $2,190 | ||
18SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 4.79 0.26 down from 2017 | 766 | 27% | $4,388 | ||
19Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 9.38 1.23 up from 2017 | 218 | 30% | $5,950 | ||
20IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.99Q1 | 3.81 0.57 up from 2017 | 291 | 30% | $3,530 | ||
21Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.59 0.76 down from 2017 | 46 | 45% | — | ||
22Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.56 0.11 up from 2017 | 134 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
23Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.56 0.65 down from 2017 | 61 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
24Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.39 0.98 up from 2017 | 211 | 43% | $4,090 | ||
25Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 2.19 0.65 up from 2017 | 79 | 36% | $0 listed | ||
26Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 2.03 0.07 down from 2017 | 178 | 29% | — | ||
27Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.67Q2 | 3.04 0.92 up from 2017 | 65 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
28Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q2 | 2.48 0.55 up from 2017 | 73 | 14% | $1,400 | ||
29Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.59Q2 | 3.97 0.48 up from 2017 | 77 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
30Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 2.25 0.11 up from 2017 | 160 | 48% | — | ||
31Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.56Q2 | 3.02 0.90 down from 2017 | 155 | 29% | $2,950 | ||
32Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q2 | 3.15 0.91 up from 2017 | 151 | 58% | $3,210 | ||
33Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 3.05 0.98 up from 2017 | 91 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
34Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.51Q2 | 2.45 0.53 up from 2017 | 157 | 49% | — | ||
35International Review of PragmaticsBrill · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 0.88 0.38 down from 2017 | 43 | 29% | — | ||
36Adaptive Human Behavior and PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.45Q2 | 2.29 0.54 down from 2017 | 66 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
37Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.93 0.27 down from 2017 | 392 | 59% | $4,340 | ||
38Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.19no 2017 value | 31 | 100% | $975 | — | |
39Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 3.03 0.02 down from 2017 | 956 | 26% | $4,350 | ||
40Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesAmerican Psychological Association | 1.29Q2 | 1.50 0.35 down from 2017 | 77 | 15% | — | ||
41The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.63 0.15 down from 2017 | 117 | 26% | $2,900 | ||
42Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 1.68 0.01 up from 2017 | 63 | 100% | $551 | ||
43Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.00 0.01 up from 2017 | 432 | 41% | — | ||
44Review of Cognitive LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 0.81 0.26 up from 2017 | 65 | 17% | — | ||
45Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.46 0.03 up from 2017 | 98 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
46PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.41 0.22 up from 2017 | 80 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
47journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.06Q2 | 1.28 0.38 down from 2017 | 65 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
48Multisensory ResearchBrill · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 1.90 1.01 down from 2017 | 126 | 21% | — | ||
49Journal of Dance Medicine & ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.52 0.19 up from 2017 | 62 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
50High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 0.90 0.54 down from 2017 | 42 | 21% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive 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.
28 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 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
- 99
- Window papers (baseline)
- 50,738 +12.0% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.01 -6.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 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.