Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Psychology journal rankings 2020
1,032 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 1,032 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.
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.
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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 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 BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 8.85Q1 | 19.61 4.30 down from 2019 | 127 | 33% | — | ||
3Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.97Q1 | 14.35 1.16 up from 2019 | 264 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
4World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.70Q1 | 13.05 0.44 up from 2019 | 310 | 76% | — | ||
5Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 9.57 0.89 up from 2019 | 116 | 54% | $3,700 | ||
6Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.92Q1 | 9.60 2.20 up from 2019 | 375 | 32% | — | ||
7Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 5.77Q1 | 8.73 2.35 up from 2019 | 301 | 100% | $916 | ||
8Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.31Q1 | 9.94 0.89 up from 2019 | 132 | 35% | — | ||
9American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.13Q1 | 7.93 2.35 up from 2019 | 476 | 28% | — | ||
10JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.97Q1 | 10.65 1.51 up from 2019 | 865 | 66% | — | ||
11Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 5.92 0.34 down from 2019 | 618 | 53% | $4,320 | ||
12Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.66Q1 | 5.19 2.27 down from 2019 | 62 | 40% | — | ||
13Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.60Q1 | 8.37 0.35 down from 2019 | 243 | 37% | — | ||
14The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal ContextOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 4.45Q1 | 10.70 4.79 up from 2019 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
15Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.26Q1 | 12.40 5.46 up from 2019 | 61 | 42% | $4,330 | ||
16European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 7.28 2.06 up from 2019 | 118 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
17Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.14Q1 | 6.26 1.89 up from 2019 | 226 | 30% | $4,720 | ||
18The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 8.37 1.06 up from 2019 | 386 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
19Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.01Q1 | 8.14 1.96 up from 2019 | 261 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
20American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.96Q1 | 9.83 2.26 up from 2019 | 568 | 60% | — | ||
21Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.95Q1 | 5.92 1.29 up from 2019 | 99 | 34% | $3,900 | ||
22European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 3.89Q1 | 6.63 2.77 up from 2019 | 98 | 42% | — | ||
23Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 6.30 0.98 up from 2019 | 378 | 63% | $4,140 | ||
24Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 3.77Q1 | 5.16 0.69 up from 2019 | 215 | 40% | $3,780 | ||
25Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 6.50 3.15 up from 2019 | 168 | 46% | — | ||
26Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 7.61 0.07 down from 2019 | 373 | 71% | $4,530 | ||
27Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.72Q1 | 7.85 0.86 up from 2019 | 365 | 37% | $4,990 | ||
28The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 8.92 3.05 up from 2019 | 783 | 66% | $7,280 | ||
29Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.62Q1 | 5.07 0.45 up from 2019 | 570 | 39% | — | ||
30Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.51Q1 | 4.78 0.02 up from 2019 | 209 | 13% | — | ||
31Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 5.30 1.22 up from 2019 | 220 | 33% | $4,150 | ||
32Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.44Q1 | 7.11 1.19 up from 2019 | 287 | 40% | — | ||
33International Perspectives in PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · Germany | 3.33Q1 | 4.73 3.79 up from 2019 | 55 | 48% | — | ||
34International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.28Q1 | 6.58 0.89 up from 2019 | 60 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
35Health Psychology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 23.02 16.43 up from 2019 | 79 | 74% | — | ||
36Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.20Q1 | 10.50 3.46 up from 2019 | 111 | 50% | $4,790 | ||
37Motivation ScienceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.16Q1 | 6.25 3.00 up from 2019 | 109 | 24% | — | ||
38International Review of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 7.11 6.73 down from 2019 | 35 | 48% | — | ||
39Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.64 0.36 down from 2019 | 88 | 29% | $3,530 | ||
40Personality Disorders Theory Research and TreatmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.13Q1 | 4.29 0.60 up from 2019 | 156 | 31% | — | ||
41School PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.11Q1 | 4.69 2.96 up from 2019 | 75 | 24% | — | ||
42Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.11Q1 | 6.23 2.23 up from 2019 | 345 | 25% | — | ||
43Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 5.75 0.44 down from 2019 | 134 | 53% | $3,760 | ||
44ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 2.85 0.41 up from 2019 | 75 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
45Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.24 0.44 down from 2019 | 126 | 58% | — | ||
46Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 7.29 0.01 up from 2019 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
47Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.01Q1 | 13.63 0.35 up from 2019 | 201 | 48% | $5,270 | ||
48Journal of Aging StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 2.84 0.08 up from 2019 | 115 | 42% | $3,340 | ||
49Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 5.51 1.30 up from 2019 | 204 | 32% | $3,730 | ||
50Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.33 1.09 up from 2019 | 82 | 19% | $2,900 |
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.
248 additional 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
- 1,032
- Window papers (baseline)
- 361,777 +11.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.95 -5.0% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
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 | 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.