Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Social Psychology journal rankings 2022
201 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Social Psychology has 201 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Review of General Psychology.
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)
201 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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1Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.17Q1 | 17.23 2.32 up from 2021 | 302 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.22Q1 | 8.29 0.53 down from 2021 | 368 | 27% | — | ||
3Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.86Q1 | 5.00 0.31 down from 2021 | 87 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Human-Robot InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.76Q1 | 7.07 1.22 up from 2021 | 98 | 94% | — | ||
5Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 4.56 0.97 up from 2021 | 194 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
6Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 7.38 0.08 up from 2021 | 1,246 | 97% | — | ||
7International Journal of Social RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 6.41 0.68 up from 2021 | 307 | 71% | $4,190 | ||
8Journal of Happiness StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 5.00 0.51 down from 2021 | 395 | 66% | $3,490 | ||
9Emotion ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 4.22 2.84 down from 2021 | 74 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
10Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.44Q1 | 5.98 0.69 up from 2021 | 167 | 57% | $3,190 | ||
11The Journal of Positive PsychologyRoutledge | 2.44Q1 | 6.46 1.68 up from 2021 | 252 | 23% | — | ||
12International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 6.17 0.37 up from 2021 | 429 | 27% | — | ||
13LGBT HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.31Q1 | 5.20 0.45 down from 2021 | 180 | 55% | — | ||
14Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 5.07 0.46 down from 2021 | 705 | 37% | $2,780 | ||
15Leisure SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 4.72 0.26 up from 2021 | 223 | 30% | — | ||
16International Journal of Transgender HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.03 2.15 up from 2021 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
17Affective ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.06Q1 | 4.79 2.04 up from 2021 | 74 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
18Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender DiversityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.05Q1 | 3.55 0.26 up from 2021 | 182 | 30% | — | ||
19Journal of Counseling PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.55 0.21 up from 2021 | 206 | 10% | — | ||
20International Journal of Applied Positive PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.03Q1 | 4.11 0.35 down from 2021 | 48 | 70% | $3,490 | ||
21Small Group ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.90 2.17 up from 2021 | 89 | 32% | $3,650 | ||
22Motivation ScienceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.44 1.38 up from 2021 | 100 | 43% | — | ||
23International Journal of WellbeingOAInternational Journal of Wellbeing · New Zealand | 1.93Q1 | 6.38 2.50 up from 2021 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Nonverbal BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 2.55 2.10 down from 2021 | 84 | 68% | $3,290 | ||
25Child Indicators ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 4.02 0.92 up from 2021 | 262 | 57% | $3,490 | ||
26International Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.93 2.04 up from 2021 | 243 | 46% | $3,570 | ||
27Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision MakingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.87Q1 | 3.32no change | 43 | 25% | $1,500 | ||
28Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.84Q1 | 4.05 1.00 down from 2021 | 408 | 39% | $1,500 | ||
29International Journal of Mental Health SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 5.03 0.27 down from 2021 | 250 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
30Journal of GLBT Family StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.97 1.35 up from 2021 | 68 | — | — | ||
31Applied Research in Quality of LifeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 3.99 0.24 down from 2021 | 293 | 63% | $3,190 | ||
32Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.22 1.66 up from 2021 | 143 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
33Applied ErgonomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 4.09 0.17 down from 2021 | 719 | 49% | $3,400 | ||
34The Journal of PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.88 0.95 down from 2021 | 108 | 29% | — | ||
35Cognition Technology & WorkSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 4.03 1.14 up from 2021 | 148 | 70% | $3,390 | ||
36Journal of Leisure ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.71 0.02 up from 2021 | 126 | 13% | — | ||
37Cross-Cultural ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.58 1.14 up from 2021 | 42 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
38Group Dynamics Theory Research and PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.75 0.78 down from 2021 | 74 | 15% | — | ||
39Aggressive BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.45 0.07 up from 2021 | 177 | 41% | $3,600 | ||
40Journal of Corporate Real EstateEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.93 0.44 up from 2021 | 66 | 56% | — | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.59Q1 | 4.21 0.41 down from 2021 | 240 | 46% | $2,645 | ||
42International Journal of Industrial ErgonomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 4.23 0.44 up from 2021 | 377 | 31% | $2,990 | ||
43New Ideas in PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 3.30 0.04 up from 2021 | 142 | 39% | $3,600 | ||
44Journal of HomosexualityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.00 0.89 up from 2021 | 363 | 29% | — | ||
45Journal of Music TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.88 0.16 down from 2021 | 62 | 17% | $3,737 | ||
46Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 3.46 0.99 up from 2021 | 459 | 47% | $3,650 | ||
47Canadian Journal of School PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.53Q1 | 3.70 2.60 up from 2021 | 57 | 75% | $3,650 | ||
48International Journal of Educational PsychologyOAHipatia Press · Spain | 1.51Q1 | 1.96 0.22 down from 2021 | 41 | 100% | $431 | ||
49Journal of Family CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.72 0.70 up from 2021 | 70 | 9% | — | ||
50IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human FactorsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 1.79 3.82 down from 2021 | 73 | 24% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Social 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.
51 additional Social 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
- 201
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,908 +20.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.922 -10.0% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 101 | 109 | 116 | 119 | 121 | 122 | 124 | 127 | 136 | 140 | 151 | 156 | 159 | 163 | 173 | 184 | 183 | 188 | 193 | 191 | 199 | 197 | 201 | 196 | 188 | 190 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 28,066 | 30,845 | 33,076 | 35,905 | 37,696 | 40,350 | 42,722 | 46,442 | 50,784 | 56,475 | 61,672 | 67,696 | 72,356 | 76,793 | 80,841 | 85,396 | 90,662 | 94,142 | 97,395 | 100,160 | 105,268 | 112,687 | 120,908 | 126,957 | 130,021 | 137,461 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.670 | 0.6778 | 0.673 | 0.64 | 0.6780 | 0.8596 | 0.8604 | 0.95 | 1.003 | 1.10 | 1.04 | 1.12 | 1.07 | 1.09 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 0.99 | 0.921 | 0.922 | 0.923 | 0.925 | 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.