Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Psychology journal rankings 2023
1,049 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 1,049 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Contemporary Educational Psychology, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, and Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience.
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.
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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 | ||
3Dialogues in Clinical NeuroscienceOALaboratoires Servier · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 8.13 3.82 down from 2022 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
4Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.99Q1 | 19.98 5.58 down from 2022 | 103 | 37% | — | ||
5Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.78Q1 | 14.34 2.89 down from 2022 | 338 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
6The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.71Q1 | 16.65 7.84 down from 2022 | 465 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
7World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.66Q1 | 16.00 0.41 down from 2022 | 337 | 97% | — | ||
8International Coaching Psychology ReviewBritish Psychological Society | 6.34Q1 | 0.50 31.87 down from 2022 | 35 | 22% | — | ||
9The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 10.75 11.02 down from 2022 | 786 | 55% | $7,280 | ||
10ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 7.73 1.75 up from 2022 | 67 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
11JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.78Q1 | 12.08 0.98 down from 2022 | 701 | 73% | — | ||
12American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.73Q1 | 4.65 6.66 down from 2022 | 538 | 29% | — | ||
13Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 7.04 1.28 down from 2022 | 114 | 75% | $3,700 | ||
14Journal of Black PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.38Q1 | 2.96 3.15 down from 2022 | 84 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
15Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.20Q1 | 5.24 0.02 down from 2022 | 179 | 78% | $3,530 | ||
16Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.11Q1 | 15.38 3.26 up from 2022 | 186 | 59% | $4,790 | ||
17Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.09Q1 | 9.52 2.52 up from 2022 | 228 | 50% | — | ||
18Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.06Q1 | 7.17 0.34 down from 2022 | 451 | 32% | $3,730 | ||
19Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.05Q1 | 4.71 0.27 down from 2022 | 57 | 38% | — | ||
20Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.91Q1 | 6.94 1.36 down from 2022 | 352 | 33% | — | ||
21International Journal of Transgender HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.85Q1 | 12.80 7.77 up from 2022 | 130 | 98% | — | ||
22Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 8.98 1.51 up from 2022 | 336 | 67% | $4,150 | ||
23Human Resource Development ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.44Q1 | 4.95 3.98 down from 2022 | 55 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
24Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.39Q1 | 8.45 4.88 down from 2022 | 175 | 65% | — | ||
25American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.37Q1 | 9.98 0.19 up from 2022 | 457 | 38% | — | ||
26Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 3.26Q1 | 5.83 0.58 up from 2022 | 244 | 41% | $3,640 | ||
27IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.17Q1 | 7.45 0.54 up from 2022 | 342 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
28Current Research in Behavioral SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.14Q1 | 7.36 2.06 down from 2022 | 88 | 100% | $3,480 | ||
29Journal of Anxiety DisordersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 5.13 9.41 down from 2022 | 299 | 50% | $4,650 | ||
30Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 9.52 1.17 up from 2022 | 213 | 28% | — | ||
31Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.03Q1 | 5.38 0.38 up from 2022 | 93 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
32Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.03Q1 | 8.04 1.29 down from 2022 | 266 | 54% | $4,990 | ||
33Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 7.85 0.04 down from 2022 | 394 | 88% | $4,530 | ||
34International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.96Q1 | 5.19 0.32 down from 2022 | 63 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
35Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 2.89Q1 | 6.26 1.26 up from 2022 | 254 | 73% | $3,400 | ||
36International Journal of Mental Health and AddictionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.88Q1 | 3.90 8.46 down from 2022 | 755 | 59% | $4,090 | ||
37Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 6.26 1.13 down from 2022 | 1,229 | 99% | — | ||
38Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 4.72 0.16 up from 2022 | 199 | 67% | $3,290 | ||
39British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.44 0.72 down from 2022 | 221 | 77% | $3,760 | ||
40Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 2.68Q1 | 6.91 2.51 down from 2022 | 279 | 100% | $916 | ||
41Motivation and EmotionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.73 3.25 down from 2022 | 171 | 63% | $3,190 | ||
42Psychiatry ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.74 8.49 down from 2022 | 1,946 | 52% | $4,230 | ||
43Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.65Q1 | 5.41 0.67 up from 2022 | 105 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
44International Journal of Clinical and Health PsychologyOAElsevier BV · Spain | 2.65Q1 | 4.74 8.40 down from 2022 | 122 | 100% | $2,970 | ||
45Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.64Q1 | 20.18 2.15 down from 2022 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
46Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 6.58 1.45 down from 2022 | 260 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
47International Journal of Applied Positive PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.60Q1 | 1.91 2.20 down from 2022 | 59 | 75% | $3,490 | ||
48Comprehensive PsychiatryOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.59Q1 | 5.27 4.71 down from 2022 | 199 | 100% | $3,470 | ||
49European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 4.50 2.67 down from 2022 | 198 | 73% | $3,900 | ||
50Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 4.75 3.14 down from 2022 | 232 | 100% | $3,190 |
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.
220 additional 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
- 1,049
- Window papers (baseline)
- 469,605 +29.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.869 -8.6% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 519 | 548 | 577 | 590 | 609 | 627 | 650 | 677 | 713 | 736 | 759 | 789 | 812 | 836 | 872 | 914 | 953 | 976 | 1,000 | 1,008 | 1,032 | 1,032 | 1,044 | 1,049 | 1,036 | 1,032 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 100,368 | 108,714 | 116,356 | 126,019 | 132,361 | 141,328 | 150,104 | 163,997 | 178,881 | 196,566 | 212,190 | 230,053 | 245,061 | 259,850 | 274,026 | 290,061 | 308,630 | 323,270 | 336,144 | 346,025 | 361,777 | 394,757 | 437,922 | 469,605 | 479,050 | 491,558 | |
| Median OJR | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.83 | 0.867 | 0.90 | 0.920 | 0.94 | 1.0178 | 1.0183 | 1.017 | 1.01 | 1.003 | 1.001 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.872 | 0.869 | 0.915 | 0.9249 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.9% | 730 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.819 per 1,000 | 625 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.9% | 962 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 55.7% | 1,032 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 484 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 21.7% | 951 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.1% | 1,032 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.96 | 1,023 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 36.5% | 1,032 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.5% | 1,030 journals |
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.