Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Applied Psychology journal rankings 2022
10 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Applied Psychology has 10 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR rose 0.21 on 2021 to 1.43, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.42. The top three are International Coaching Psychology Review, Human Resource Development Review, and JMIR Mental Health.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
10 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1International Coaching Psychology ReviewBritish Psychological Society | 5.96Q1 | 32.37 9.04 up from 2021 | 47 | 33% | — | ||
2Human Resource Development ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.27Q1 | 8.93 1.11 up from 2021 | 42 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
3JMIR Mental HealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.42Q1 | 7.57 1.41 down from 2021 | 443 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
4Internet InterventionsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 5.19 0.59 down from 2021 | 252 | 100% | $2,980 | ||
5Frontiers in Digital HealthOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.54Q2 | 4.48 0.09 up from 2021 | 258 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
6Journal of Technology in Behavioral ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.33Q3 | 3.80 0.32 up from 2021 | 142 | 71% | $3,090 | ||
7Consulting psychology journalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.89Q3 | 1.72 0.32 down from 2021 | 66 | 30% | — | ||
8Coaching An International Journal of Theory Research and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.58 0.46 down from 2021 | 48 | 50% | — | ||
9Performance Improvement JournalWiley · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.94 0.48 up from 2021 | 132 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
10Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the RorschachHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 0.16Q4 | 1.13 0.63 up from 2021 | 40 | 30% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Applied Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology606
- Social Psychology201
- Developmental and Educational Psychology120
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology102
- Applied Psychology10
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3 additional Applied Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 10
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,836 +20.5% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.43 +261.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,974 | 3,261 | 3,456 | 3,664 | 3,761 | 3,990 | 4,191 | 4,632 | 5,008 | 5,650 | 5,999 | 6,606 | 7,066 | 7,572 | 8,050 | 8,820 | 9,729 | 10,620 | 11,073 | 11,478 | 11,837 | 12,644 | 13,836 | 14,663 | 15,283 | 16,344 | |
| Median OJR | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.43 | 0.512 | 0.63 | 0.507 | 1.07 | 0.718 | 0.71 | 0.68 | 0.514 | 0.57 | 0.606 | 0.999 | 0.44 | 0.609 | 0.724 | 0.59 | 0.83 | 0.40 | 0.56 | 1.22 | 1.43 | 1.58 | 1.33 | 1.50 |
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.