Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Social Psychology journal rankings 2019
191 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 191 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.03 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 1.50 to reach Q1. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
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)
191 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 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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1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.31Q1 | 13.19 1.14 up from 2018 | 256 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.91Q1 | 7.39 0.84 down from 2018 | 334 | 29% | — | ||
3Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.47Q1 | 4.76 0.81 down from 2018 | 190 | 14% | — | ||
4Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 5.30 1.18 up from 2018 | 146 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
5Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 6.61 0.66 down from 2018 | 1,257 | 97% | — | ||
6Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.22Q1 | 4.63 0.04 down from 2018 | 108 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Multicultural Counseling and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 1.77 1.23 down from 2018 | 68 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
8Transgender HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.96Q1 | 5.02 0.10 up from 2018 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
9Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 3.08 0.43 up from 2018 | 142 | 30% | $3,290 | ||
10The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 2.67Q1 | 3.44 0.20 down from 2018 | 203 | 28% | — | ||
11Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.62Q1 | 3.99 0.24 down from 2018 | 272 | 23% | $1,500 | ||
12Psicologí a EducativaOAPublisher not listed | 2.56Q1 | 2.39 0.93 down from 2018 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
13Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender DiversityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.08 0.39 up from 2018 | 156 | 45% | — | ||
14LGBT HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.54Q1 | 4.58 0.63 up from 2018 | 165 | 69% | — | ||
15Psychology Public Policy and LawAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.77 0.09 up from 2018 | 110 | 29% | — | ||
16Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.46Q1 | 3.02 1.33 up from 2018 | 78 | 45% | $3,650 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.28 0.86 up from 2018 | 278 | 51% | $2,645 | ||
18Personal RelationshipsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.59 1.96 up from 2018 | 137 | 28% | $3,140 | ||
19Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.02 0.53 up from 2018 | 261 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
20International Journal of Mental Health SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 3.32 0.45 up from 2018 | 214 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
21Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 2.87 0.56 up from 2018 | 352 | 32% | $3,490 | ||
22International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 3.79 0.39 up from 2018 | 160 | 52% | $4,190 | ||
23Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 4.14 0.45 up from 2018 | 629 | 41% | $3,400 | ||
24Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.18 0.15 down from 2018 | 703 | 38% | $2,780 | ||
25International Journal of TransgenderismTaylor & Francis · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 4.20 0.86 up from 2018 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
26Attachment & Human DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.36 0.80 up from 2018 | 134 | 44% | — | ||
27Sexuality Research and Social PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.27 0.12 down from 2018 | 143 | 38% | $2,990 | ||
28International Journal of WellbeingOAInternational Journal of Wellbeing · New Zealand | 1.95Q1 | 1.76 0.60 down from 2018 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
29Revista de Psicodidáctica (English ed )Elsevier BV · Spain | 1.88Q1 | 2.15 0.49 up from 2018 | 49 | 35% | $3,740 | ||
30The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.19 0.19 up from 2018 | 130 | 20% | — | ||
31Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.41 0.41 up from 2018 | 279 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
32Motivation ScienceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.25 0.89 up from 2018 | 90 | 20% | — | ||
33Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.55 0.14 down from 2018 | 165 | 50% | $3,600 | ||
34Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.03 0.33 up from 2018 | 395 | 20% | — | ||
35Journal of Counseling & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.45 0.04 up from 2018 | 151 | 13% | $2,900 | ||
36Journal of School ViolenceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.06 0.02 up from 2018 | 100 | 10% | — | ||
37Communication QuarterlyRoutledge · United States | 1.73Q1 | 1.40 0.16 down from 2018 | 93 | 7% | — | ||
38International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.94 0.70 up from 2018 | 336 | 20% | — | ||
39Hormones and BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.54 0.84 down from 2018 | 466 | 41% | $3,640 | ||
40Couple and Family Psychology Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.26 0.84 up from 2018 | 56 | 22% | — | ||
41Journal of LGBT YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.30 0.24 up from 2018 | 75 | 17% | — | ||
42Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 1.83 0.42 down from 2018 | 150 | 24% | — | ||
43The Counseling PsychologistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.25 0.77 up from 2018 | 164 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
44Journal of Family CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.39 0.59 up from 2018 | 81 | 4% | — | ||
45Culture & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.62 0.98 up from 2018 | 115 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
46Business and Professional Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.19 0.41 down from 2018 | 71 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
47Memory StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.39 0.03 down from 2018 | 161 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
48Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 2.68 0.68 up from 2018 | 63 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
49Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q2 | 2.57 0.34 up from 2018 | 214 | 31% | $3,190 | ||
50Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 1.92 0.33 up from 2018 | 74 | 25% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social 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.
62 additional Social 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
- 191
- Window papers (baseline)
- 100,160 +10.5% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.03 -4.4% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 101 | 109 | 116 | 119 | 121 | 122 | 124 | 127 | 136 | 140 | 151 | 156 | 159 | 163 | 173 | 184 | 183 | 188 | 193 | 191 | 199 | 197 | 201 | 196 | 188 | 190 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 28,066 | 30,845 | 33,076 | 35,905 | 37,696 | 40,350 | 42,722 | 46,442 | 50,784 | 56,475 | 61,672 | 67,696 | 72,356 | 76,793 | 80,841 | 85,396 | 90,662 | 94,142 | 97,395 | 100,160 | 105,268 | 112,687 | 120,908 | 126,957 | 130,021 | 137,461 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.670 | 0.6778 | 0.673 | 0.64 | 0.6780 | 0.8596 | 0.8604 | 0.95 | 1.003 | 1.10 | 1.04 | 1.12 | 1.07 | 1.09 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 0.99 | 0.921 | 0.922 | 0.923 | 0.925 | 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.