Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2020
99 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 99 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2019 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.73. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, and Contemporary Educational Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 14.64Q1 | 26.33 9.29 up from 2019 | 72 | 92% | $2,000 | ||
2Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.31Q1 | 9.94 0.89 up from 2019 | 132 | 35% | — | ||
3Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.14Q1 | 6.26 1.89 up from 2019 | 226 | 30% | $4,720 | ||
4Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 5.51 1.30 up from 2019 | 204 | 32% | $3,730 | ||
5Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.33 1.09 up from 2019 | 82 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
6Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.97Q1 | 5.22 0.58 up from 2019 | 197 | 51% | $4,330 | ||
7Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 2.88Q1 | 4.53 0.24 down from 2019 | 176 | 39% | $3,530 | ||
8Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.81Q1 | 5.43 1.14 up from 2019 | 71 | 8% | $1,400 | ||
9Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.80Q1 | 4.67 1.57 up from 2019 | 355 | 32% | $3,640 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.76Q1 | 5.06 1.39 down from 2019 | 277 | 42% | $2,645 | ||
11British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.63 0.54 up from 2019 | 182 | 53% | $3,760 | ||
12Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.57Q1 | 3.47 0.53 up from 2019 | 66 | 25% | $2,190 | ||
13Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.40Q1 | 6.09 0.80 down from 2019 | 107 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
14Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q1 | 4.29 0.60 up from 2019 | 238 | 43% | — | ||
15SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 2.14Q1 | 6.37 1.18 up from 2019 | 781 | 26% | $4,388 | ||
16Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.95 1.50 up from 2019 | 129 | 100% | $975 | ||
17EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.11Q1 | 4.21 0.61 up from 2019 | 422 | 29% | — | ||
18Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.29 0.84 up from 2019 | 230 | 33% | — | ||
19Lodz Papers in PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Poland | 1.99Q1 | 2.80 1.77 up from 2019 | 41 | 38% | $2,712 | ||
20Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 4.44 0.46 up from 2019 | 156 | 25% | $3,210 | ||
21Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.51 0.82 up from 2019 | 197 | 22% | — | ||
22Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.84Q1 | 4.41 1.63 up from 2019 | 56 | 38% | — | ||
23The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.14 0.01 up from 2019 | 142 | 19% | — | ||
24Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 8.78 0.22 down from 2019 | 225 | 29% | $5,950 | ||
25IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.20 0.15 down from 2019 | 224 | 26% | $3,530 | ||
26Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 2.25 1.15 down from 2019 | 92 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
27Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 3.62 0.01 down from 2019 | 293 | 41% | $3,000 | ||
28Archives of Scientific PsychologyOAAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.65Q2 | 2.73 0.05 up from 2019 | 41 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
29Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.56Q2 | 3.82 0.91 up from 2019 | 106 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
30The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.49Q2 | 3.22 1.27 up from 2019 | 145 | 33% | $2,900 | ||
31Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.45Q2 | 1.70 1.67 down from 2019 | 82 | 58% | $0 listed | ||
32journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.45Q2 | 2.11 0.44 down from 2019 | 51 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
33Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.80 0.27 up from 2019 | 147 | 51% | — | ||
34Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.36Q2 | 3.34 0.75 up from 2019 | 144 | 12% | — | ||
35High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.93 0.43 up from 2019 | 56 | 17% | — | ||
36Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 3.68 0.44 up from 2019 | 465 | 37% | $4,340 | ||
37Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.32Q2 | 2.70 0.22 up from 2019 | 239 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
38Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.40 0.09 down from 2019 | 122 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
39Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q2 | 3.10 0.54 down from 2019 | 150 | 38% | $2,950 | ||
40Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.91 0.97 up from 2019 | 54 | 41% | $3,650 | ||
41Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 3.48 0.60 up from 2019 | 972 | 34% | $4,350 | ||
42Evolutionary Psychological ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 1.83 0.08 up from 2019 | 139 | 24% | $2,390 | ||
43Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesAmerican Psychological Association | 1.19Q2 | 1.80 0.38 up from 2019 | 94 | 16% | — | ||
44Language and CognitionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.44 1.09 up from 2019 | 80 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
45Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 2.17 0.27 up from 2019 | 71 | 100% | $551 | ||
46Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 3.16 0.13 up from 2019 | 475 | 38% | — | ||
47Adaptive Human Behavior and PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 2.32 0.02 down from 2019 | 67 | 41% | $3,190 | ||
48Creativity Theories – Research – ApplicationsDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.95Q2 | 1.41 0.14 up from 2019 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
49Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.93 0.40 up from 2019 | 119 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
50Multisensory ResearchBrill · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 2.81 0.79 up from 2019 | 126 | 46% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology599
- Social Psychology199
- Developmental and Educational Psychology119
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology99
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 99
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,198 +7.5% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.94 -7.1% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 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.