Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2019
99 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 99 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2018 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.76. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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
Filters
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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 13.61Q1 | 17.05no 2018 value | 43 | 68% | $2,000 | — | |
2Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.65Q1 | 9.05 1.09 up from 2018 | 132 | 34% | — | ||
3Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.88Q1 | 4.76 0.32 up from 2018 | 148 | 28% | $3,530 | ||
4Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 4.37 0.39 up from 2018 | 200 | 35% | $4,720 | ||
5Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.64Q1 | 3.38 1.19 up from 2018 | 85 | 52% | $0 listed | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.27Q1 | 6.45 1.77 up from 2018 | 239 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
7Archives of Scientific PsychologyOAAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.68 4.20 down from 2018 | 32 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
8Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.99Q1 | 4.64 0.35 up from 2018 | 226 | 40% | $4,330 | ||
9Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 2.24 1.06 down from 2018 | 87 | 32% | $2,900 | ||
10Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 4.21 0.57 up from 2018 | 209 | 22% | $3,730 | ||
11Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 0.77 0.23 down from 2018 | 45 | 50% | $2,760 | ||
11Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.41Q1 | 3.69 0.71 up from 2018 | 200 | 34% | — | ||
13Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.29Q1 | 3.10 0.25 up from 2018 | 494 | 35% | $3,640 | ||
14Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.28Q1 | 6.88 2.92 up from 2018 | 101 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
15Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.28 1.80 up from 2018 | 74 | 11% | $1,400 | ||
16British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.09no change | 144 | 49% | $3,760 | ||
17Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.40 0.35 up from 2018 | 88 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
18SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 2.19Q1 | 5.19 0.40 up from 2018 | 759 | 47% | $4,388 | ||
19Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 9.00 0.38 down from 2018 | 210 | 34% | $5,950 | ||
20EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.60 0.02 up from 2018 | 408 | 29% | — | ||
21The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.13 0.01 down from 2018 | 123 | 23% | — | ||
22Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.93 0.09 up from 2018 | 76 | 35% | $2,190 | ||
23Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.45 0.42 up from 2018 | 183 | 35% | — | ||
24Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.45 1.26 up from 2018 | 71 | 100% | $975 | ||
25journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.55 1.27 up from 2018 | 56 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
26IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q2 | 3.36 0.45 down from 2018 | 257 | 23% | $3,530 | ||
27International Review of PragmaticsBrill · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 2.04 1.15 up from 2018 | 39 | 20% | — | ||
28Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q2 | 3.63 1.04 up from 2018 | 262 | 43% | $3,000 | ||
29Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 3.98 0.83 up from 2018 | 145 | 40% | $3,210 | ||
30Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.66Q2 | 2.69 1.33 down from 2018 | 172 | 21% | — | ||
31Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q2 | 2.48 0.91 down from 2018 | 234 | 36% | $4,090 | ||
32Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.56Q2 | 2.91 0.13 down from 2018 | 98 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
33Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 2.49 1.07 down from 2018 | 126 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
34Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q2 | 3.64 0.62 up from 2018 | 153 | 51% | $2,950 | ||
35Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 3.24 0.31 up from 2018 | 448 | 65% | $4,340 | ||
36Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.78 1.20 up from 2018 | 54 | 33% | — | ||
37Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.53 0.28 up from 2018 | 160 | 51% | — | ||
38Language and CognitionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.36 0.55 up from 2018 | 75 | 60% | $3,550 | ||
39Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.59 0.14 up from 2018 | 158 | 20% | — | ||
40Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 2.88 0.15 down from 2018 | 940 | 9% | $4,350 | ||
41Adaptive Human Behavior and PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 2.34 0.05 up from 2018 | 66 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
42Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 1.90 0.22 up from 2018 | 66 | 100% | $551 | ||
43The Senses and SocietyRoutledge | 1.17Q2 | 1.52 1.17 up from 2018 | 91 | 26% | — | ||
44The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.94 0.31 up from 2018 | 142 | 33% | $2,900 | ||
45Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.16Q2 | 3.03 0.03 up from 2018 | 481 | 31% | — | ||
46Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.54 0.08 up from 2018 | 100 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
47Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesAmerican Psychological Association | 0.93Q2 | 1.42 0.08 down from 2018 | 87 | 32% | — | ||
48PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.00 0.41 down from 2018 | 81 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
49Journal of the International Phonetic AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.01 0.51 up from 2018 | 108 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
50Journal of Experimental PsychopathologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.57 0.31 up from 2018 | 93 | 100% | $2,000 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology585
- Social Psychology191
- Developmental and Educational Psychology117
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology99
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 99
- Window papers (baseline)
- 51,227 +6.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.860 -13.4% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.