Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2022
606 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 606 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, The Lancet Psychiatry, and The Lancet Public 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)
606 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 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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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.17Q1 | 25.57 0.80 down from 2021 | 114 | 19% | — | ||
2The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.34Q1 | 21.77 4.09 down from 2021 | 872 | 46% | $7,280 | ||
3The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.29Q1 | 24.49 4.99 down from 2021 | 450 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
4World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.08Q1 | 16.41 2.21 down from 2021 | 332 | 97% | — | ||
5American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.13Q1 | 11.30 1.66 down from 2021 | 534 | 20% | — | ||
6JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.64Q1 | 13.05 0.95 up from 2021 | 774 | 74% | — | ||
7Current Research in Behavioral SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 9.43 3.97 up from 2021 | 61 | 100% | $3,480 | ||
8International Journal of Mental Health and AddictionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.83Q1 | 12.36 3.14 down from 2021 | 618 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
9Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.70Q1 | 9.33 1.94 down from 2021 | 312 | 67% | $4,990 | ||
10Journal of Anxiety DisordersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 14.54 2.47 down from 2021 | 280 | 52% | $4,650 | ||
11International Journal of Clinical and Health PsychologyOAElsevier BV · Spain | 3.42Q1 | 13.13 2.79 up from 2021 | 90 | 100% | $2,970 | ||
12Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 11.95 4.95 up from 2021 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
13American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.32Q1 | 9.79 0.32 down from 2021 | 489 | 29% | — | ||
14Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 3.23Q1 | 9.43 0.87 up from 2021 | 278 | 100% | $916 | ||
15International Journal of Adolescence and YouthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.22 4.60 down from 2021 | 132 | 100% | $1,226 | ||
16Psychiatry ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 13.23 0.53 down from 2021 | 2,003 | 46% | $4,230 | ||
17Journal of Black PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.15Q1 | 6.12 3.06 up from 2021 | 85 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
18Evidence-Based Mental HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 5.41 5.47 down from 2021 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
19Applied Psychology Health and Well-BeingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 9.45 0.18 down from 2021 | 178 | 68% | $3,920 | ||
20Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.98Q1 | 13.34 1.39 up from 2021 | 198 | 57% | — | ||
21International Journal of Social PsychiatrySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 10.06 2.48 down from 2021 | 504 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
22British Journal of Health PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 10.43 0.18 up from 2021 | 214 | 83% | $4,240 | ||
23Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 7.89 0.52 down from 2021 | 388 | 73% | $4,530 | ||
24Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.73Q1 | 4.96 3.37 down from 2021 | 224 | — | — | ||
25Comprehensive PsychiatryOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.70Q1 | 9.99 0.04 up from 2021 | 211 | 100% | $3,470 | ||
26Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 7.89 1.95 down from 2021 | 171 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
27Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)OAPontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas · Brazil | 2.67Q1 | 11.18 3.94 up from 2021 | 115 | 100% | — | ||
28Asian Journal of Social Health and BehaviorOAMedknow · India | 2.63Q1 | 8.67 1.91 up from 2021 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.59Q1 | 6.77 1.96 down from 2021 | 246 | 32% | — | ||
30Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 2.57Q1 | 8.46 0.06 up from 2021 | 319 | 65% | $2,490 | ||
31Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.55Q1 | 5.49 0.14 down from 2021 | 554 | 54% | $3,890 | ||
32Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 8.03 0.97 up from 2021 | 258 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
33Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 8.35 3.45 up from 2021 | 237 | 30% | — | ||
34Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and PolicyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.47Q1 | 8.81 2.47 down from 2021 | 570 | 29% | — | ||
35European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 7.17 1.08 down from 2021 | 183 | 64% | $3,900 | ||
36Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 7.12 0.55 up from 2021 | 617 | 20% | $3,710 | ||
37Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.57 2.35 down from 2021 | 272 | 66% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United States | 2.39Q1 | 6.97 0.52 up from 2021 | 1,081 | 79% | $3,670 | ||
39Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.38Q1 | 5.36 0.32 up from 2021 | 534 | 37% | — | ||
40Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 5.18 1.17 down from 2021 | 226 | 69% | $3,780 | ||
41Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 2.36Q1 | 5.00 1.21 up from 2021 | 242 | 55% | $3,400 | ||
42Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.29Q1 | 22.33 0.33 down from 2021 | 63 | 64% | — | ||
43European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 4.65 0.75 up from 2021 | 105 | 27% | — | ||
44Frontiers in PsychologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.24Q1 | 5.40 0.26 down from 2021 | 12,622 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
45Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.24Q1 | 15.73 3.18 up from 2021 | 230 | 52% | $5,270 | ||
46European Child & Adolescent PsychiatrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 8.53 2.80 up from 2021 | 630 | 77% | $2,990 | ||
47Psychological MedicineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 7.25 0.74 down from 2021 | 1,370 | 81% | $3,550 | ||
48Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 5.10 0.24 up from 2021 | 381 | 53% | $3,150 | ||
49Psychological AssessmentAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.81 3.10 down from 2021 | 328 | 26% | — | ||
50JCPP AdvancesOAWiley · United States | 2.16Q1 | 5.35no 2021 value | 49 | 100% | $2,705 | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical 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.
131 additional Clinical 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
- 606
- Window papers (baseline)
- 173,392 +35.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.76 -9.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 287 | 302 | 320 | 325 | 339 | 349 | 363 | 382 | 396 | 413 | 420 | 438 | 446 | 464 | 487 | 510 | 548 | 555 | 575 | 585 | 599 | 603 | 606 | 609 | 608 | 604 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 37,390 | 40,536 | 43,747 | 47,449 | 50,051 | 53,618 | 57,030 | 62,351 | 67,335 | 72,932 | 77,786 | 83,488 | 88,110 | 93,352 | 98,804 | 105,346 | 112,078 | 118,018 | 123,807 | 127,821 | 132,968 | 149,239 | 173,392 | 190,132 | 192,236 | 190,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.69 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.718 | 0.720 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.874 | 0.865 | 0.870 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.929 | 0.92 | 0.927 | 0.89 | 0.856 | 0.84 | 0.871 | 0.78 | 0.76 | 0.80 | 0.862 | 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.