Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2023
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 105 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2022 to 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Contemporary Educational Psychology, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, and Psychological Methods.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
105 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.60Q1 | 5.47 7.39 down from 2022 | 228 | 40% | $4,720 | ||
2Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 8.38Q1 | 21.48 3.75 up from 2022 | 86 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
3Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.09Q1 | 9.52 2.52 up from 2022 | 228 | 50% | — | ||
4Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.06Q1 | 7.17 0.34 down from 2022 | 451 | 32% | $3,730 | ||
5Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 3.26Q1 | 5.83 0.58 up from 2022 | 244 | 41% | $3,640 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.17Q1 | 7.45 0.54 up from 2022 | 342 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
7British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.44 0.72 down from 2022 | 221 | 77% | $3,760 | ||
8Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 2.52Q1 | 4.47 1.07 down from 2022 | 196 | 41% | $3,530 | ||
9Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 4.78 1.58 up from 2022 | 186 | 31% | — | ||
10Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 5.00 1.14 up from 2022 | 79 | 61% | $2,900 | ||
11EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.92 1.27 down from 2022 | 415 | 34% | — | ||
12Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.04 1.29 down from 2022 | 171 | 36% | $4,330 | ||
13Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.15 0.59 up from 2022 | 41 | 95% | $2,760 | ||
14Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 2.07Q1 | 5.03 1.24 up from 2022 | 213 | 100% | $975 | ||
15Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 12.31 1.03 up from 2022 | 302 | 43% | $5,950 | ||
16Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.95Q1 | 3.40 0.28 up from 2022 | 65 | 85% | $0 listed | ||
17Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.69 0.39 up from 2022 | 152 | 29% | — | ||
18The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.93Q1 | 3.64 0.91 down from 2022 | 130 | 73% | $2,900 | ||
19Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.91Q1 | 4.62 0.89 up from 2022 | 234 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
20SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 1.73Q1 | 4.55 0.98 down from 2022 | 880 | 94% | $4,388 | ||
21The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.63 0.45 up from 2022 | 117 | 24% | — | ||
22Journal of World LanguagesOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.45 1.17 up from 2022 | 68 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q1 | 4.43 0.73 up from 2022 | 164 | 44% | $3,530 | ||
24Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 4.44 0.69 up from 2022 | 155 | 41% | $2,950 | ||
25Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.59 0.41 down from 2022 | 78 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
26Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.51Q1 | 2.56 1.39 down from 2022 | 87 | 44% | $1,400 | ||
27Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 4.11 0.69 down from 2022 | 709 | 83% | $4,340 | ||
28International Review of PragmaticsBrill · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 0.65 0.48 down from 2022 | 37 | 73% | — | ||
29Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.43Q2 | 3.98 0.09 up from 2022 | 473 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
30Journal of CreativityOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.41Q2 | 3.42 0.89 up from 2022 | 31 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
31Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 3.64 0.46 down from 2022 | 337 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
32Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 2.29 0.33 down from 2022 | 134 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
33Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.38Q2 | 3.19 1.37 up from 2022 | 60 | 50% | — | ||
34Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.36Q2 | 2.71no change | 229 | 30% | — | ||
35Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 3.79 1.47 down from 2022 | 1,239 | 43% | $4,350 | ||
36Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.30Q2 | 2.58 0.50 down from 2022 | 72 | 75% | $2,190 | ||
37Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q2 | 2.99 0.23 up from 2022 | 162 | 49% | — | ||
38SLEEP AdvancesOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 2.72 0.50 up from 2022 | 71 | 100% | $2,054 | ||
39journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.28 0.29 down from 2022 | 50 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
40Gifted Education InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.28 0.49 up from 2022 | 78 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
41Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 2.77 0.41 up from 2022 | 116 | 55% | $3,210 | ||
42Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.17Q2 | 3.34 0.18 down from 2022 | 255 | 55% | $4,090 | ||
43Sleep DisordersHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.17 0.05 up from 2022 | 34 | 100% | $800 | ||
44Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 2.73 0.56 down from 2022 | 477 | 50% | — | ||
45Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.68 0.43 down from 2022 | 162 | 62% | — | ||
46Multisensory ResearchBrill · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 2.11 0.26 up from 2022 | 84 | 74% | — | ||
47Journal of Second Language PronunciationJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 0.76 1.46 down from 2022 | 77 | 13% | — | ||
48Lodz Papers in PragmaticsDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.91Q2 | 1.04 0.49 up from 2022 | 39 | 17% | $2,712 | ||
49Sleep Medicine XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 2.74 1.43 down from 2022 | 42 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
50Sleep ScienceOABrazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep Societies · Brazil | 0.88Q2 | 2.31 1.38 up from 2022 | 189 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology609
- Social Psychology196
- Developmental and Educational Psychology123
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology105
- Applied Psychology10
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
24 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,684 +19.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -12.6% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.