Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2021
98 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 98 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Psychological Methods.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
98 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 12.11Q1 | 23.37 2.97 down from 2020 | 106 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
2Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.12Q1 | 10.50 4.24 up from 2020 | 237 | 32% | $4,720 | ||
3Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.20Q1 | 10.00 0.06 up from 2020 | 137 | 44% | — | ||
4Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.66Q1 | 6.89 1.38 up from 2020 | 262 | 21% | $3,730 | ||
5Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 4.16 0.84 up from 2020 | 87 | 31% | $2,900 | ||
6Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 3.15Q1 | 6.03 1.50 up from 2020 | 210 | 31% | $3,530 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.80Q1 | 7.56 2.50 up from 2020 | 283 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
8Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.74Q1 | 5.73 0.51 up from 2020 | 201 | 35% | $4,330 | ||
9British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 5.27 1.64 up from 2020 | 180 | 55% | $3,760 | ||
10Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.90 0.23 up from 2020 | 297 | 41% | $3,640 | ||
11Lodz Papers in PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Poland | 2.45Q1 | 0.79 2.01 down from 2020 | 39 | 20% | $2,712 | ||
12Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.20Q1 | 3.94 0.35 down from 2020 | 252 | 43% | — | ||
13Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 3.83 0.54 up from 2020 | 233 | 34% | — | ||
14Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 2.20Q1 | 4.24 0.71 down from 2020 | 153 | 100% | $975 | ||
15EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.01Q1 | 4.88 0.67 up from 2020 | 434 | 25% | — | ||
16Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.96Q1 | 4.04 2.05 down from 2020 | 190 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
17Archives of Scientific PsychologyOAAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.76 2.03 up from 2020 | 41 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
18Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.39 1.03 down from 2020 | 63 | 24% | $1,400 | ||
19SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 1.92Q1 | 5.63 0.74 down from 2020 | 845 | 50% | $4,388 | ||
20Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.32 0.81 up from 2020 | 204 | 25% | — | ||
21Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 5.71 2.03 up from 2020 | 522 | 55% | $4,340 | ||
22Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.72Q1 | 3.00 0.47 down from 2020 | 65 | 34% | $2,190 | ||
23Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.89 1.55 down from 2020 | 125 | 46% | $3,210 | ||
24Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.47 0.13 up from 2020 | 144 | 36% | — | ||
25The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.72 0.50 up from 2020 | 145 | 26% | $2,900 | ||
26Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 10.29 1.51 up from 2020 | 243 | 42% | $5,950 | ||
27Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q2 | 3.68 0.06 up from 2020 | 322 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
28Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.57Q2 | 3.55 0.27 down from 2020 | 113 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
29IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.56Q2 | 4.49 1.28 up from 2020 | 191 | 32% | $3,530 | ||
30Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 2.80 0.55 up from 2020 | 113 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
31High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.59 0.66 up from 2020 | 51 | 33% | — | ||
32The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.40Q2 | 2.75 0.61 up from 2020 | 147 | 17% | — | ||
33Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 5.21 1.73 up from 2020 | 1,065 | 38% | $4,350 | ||
34Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 3.51 0.71 up from 2020 | 152 | 51% | — | ||
35Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.40Q2 | 4.11 1.01 up from 2020 | 151 | 33% | $2,950 | ||
36Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.36Q2 | 1.73 2.68 down from 2020 | 57 | 18% | — | ||
37Journal of Experimental PsychopathologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 3.80 1.65 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
38Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.29Q2 | 3.34 0.64 up from 2020 | 291 | 58% | $4,090 | ||
39Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q2 | 4.11 0.95 up from 2020 | 485 | 30% | — | ||
40Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 2.25 0.31 up from 2020 | 116 | 55% | $3,650 | ||
41Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.15Q2 | 1.81 0.11 up from 2020 | 79 | 74% | $0 listed | ||
42journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.83 0.72 up from 2020 | 46 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
43Sleep DisordersHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.58 0.47 down from 2020 | 36 | 27% | $800 | ||
44Clocks & SleepOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.07Q2 | 3.32 1.34 up from 2020 | 80 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
45The Senses and SocietyRoutledge | 1.05Q2 | 1.24 0.44 up from 2020 | 94 | 11% | — | ||
46Sleep ScienceOABrazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep Societies · Brazil | 0.98Q2 | 2.40 0.09 down from 2020 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
47Language and CognitionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.81 0.37 up from 2020 | 97 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
48Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesAmerican Psychological Association | 0.92Q2 | 1.52 0.27 down from 2020 | 123 | 21% | — | ||
49Evolutionary PsychologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.14 0.26 down from 2020 | 109 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
50Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory PhonologyOAUbiquity Press · Germany | 0.89Q3 | 2.26 0.08 up from 2020 | 66 | 100% | $551 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology603
- Social Psychology197
- Developmental and Educational Psychology118
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology98
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
31 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 98
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,392 +11.1% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.902 -10.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.