Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Psychology journal rankings 2019
1,008 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 1,008 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2018 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.
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.
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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 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 BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.92Q1 | 23.91 2.84 up from 2018 | 126 | 39% | — | ||
3Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.31Q1 | 13.19 1.14 up from 2018 | 256 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 6.68Q1 | 7.46 2.85 up from 2018 | 60 | 21% | — | ||
5Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.66Q1 | 8.68 3.18 up from 2018 | 139 | 46% | $3,700 | ||
6World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.51Q1 | 12.61 1.72 up from 2018 | 296 | 97% | — | ||
7Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.91Q1 | 7.39 0.84 down from 2018 | 334 | 29% | — | ||
8Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.65Q1 | 9.05 1.09 up from 2018 | 132 | 34% | — | ||
9JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.79Q1 | 9.14 0.17 up from 2018 | 839 | 63% | — | ||
10Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 6.26 1.40 up from 2018 | 686 | 60% | $4,320 | ||
11Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 4.63Q1 | 6.38 0.10 down from 2018 | 306 | 100% | $916 | ||
12Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.47Q1 | 4.76 0.81 down from 2018 | 190 | 14% | — | ||
13Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.35Q1 | 8.72 0.99 up from 2018 | 258 | 36% | — | ||
14The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 7.31 1.18 up from 2018 | 274 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
15Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.27Q1 | 6.94 1.06 down from 2018 | 61 | 28% | $4,330 | ||
16Human Resource Development ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.01Q1 | 4.97 0.95 up from 2018 | 60 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
17American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.98Q1 | 5.58 1.95 up from 2018 | 456 | 25% | — | ||
18Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 7.69 0.72 up from 2018 | 375 | 70% | $4,530 | ||
19Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.88Q1 | 4.76 0.32 up from 2018 | 148 | 28% | $3,530 | ||
20American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.82Q1 | 7.57 0.47 down from 2018 | 644 | 65% | — | ||
21Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.77Q1 | 4.00 0.80 up from 2018 | 82 | 34% | $3,530 | ||
22Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 4.37 0.39 up from 2018 | 200 | 35% | $4,720 | ||
23Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 4.08 0.56 down from 2018 | 206 | 33% | $4,150 | ||
24Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 3.64Q1 | 3.38 1.19 up from 2018 | 85 | 52% | $0 listed | ||
25Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.62Q1 | 4.62 0.13 up from 2018 | 565 | 34% | — | ||
26Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.59Q1 | 4.68 1.52 up from 2018 | 112 | 49% | — | ||
27Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.54Q1 | 7.04 0.97 up from 2018 | 95 | 40% | $4,790 | ||
28Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 7.28 0.89 up from 2018 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
29The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 5.86 0.02 down from 2018 | 814 | 53% | $7,280 | ||
30European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 5.21 0.70 up from 2018 | 127 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
31Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.37Q1 | 5.91 0.25 down from 2018 | 298 | 38% | — | ||
32Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.35Q1 | 6.19 2.38 up from 2018 | 145 | 52% | $3,760 | ||
33International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.28Q1 | 5.68 2.13 up from 2018 | 59 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
34Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 5.30 1.18 up from 2018 | 146 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
35IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.27Q1 | 6.45 1.77 up from 2018 | 239 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
36Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.26Q1 | 6.18 1.96 up from 2018 | 239 | 63% | $3,900 | ||
37Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.25Q1 | 18.12 1.27 down from 2018 | 60 | 67% | — | ||
38Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.25Q1 | 6.98 0.59 up from 2018 | 335 | 34% | $4,990 | ||
39Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 6.61 0.66 down from 2018 | 1,257 | 97% | — | ||
40Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.22Q1 | 4.63 0.04 down from 2018 | 108 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
41Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 5.32 0.40 up from 2018 | 373 | 54% | $4,140 | ||
42ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 2.44 0.50 up from 2018 | 77 | 52% | $3,550 | ||
43Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 1.77 1.23 down from 2018 | 68 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
44Archives of Scientific PsychologyOAAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.68 4.20 down from 2018 | 32 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
45Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 5.26 0.45 down from 2018 | 394 | 55% | $3,580 | ||
46Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 3.73 0.04 up from 2018 | 418 | 38% | $3,150 | ||
47The Journal of Sex ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.67 0.69 up from 2018 | 295 | 36% | — | ||
48Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.01Q1 | 3.49 0.01 down from 2018 | 547 | 52% | $3,890 | ||
49Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.99Q1 | 4.64 0.35 up from 2018 | 226 | 40% | $4,330 | ||
50Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.97Q1 | 4.46 0.39 up from 2018 | 193 | 44% | $3,780 |
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.
268 additional 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
- 1,008
- Window papers (baseline)
- 346,025 +12.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -7.7% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.