Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Clinical Psychology journal rankings 2024
608 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Clinical Psychology has 608 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2023 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Psychological Bulletin, World Psychiatry, and The Lancet Public Health.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
608 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.81Q1 | 20.89 0.91 up from 2023 | 93 | 53% | — | ||
2World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.51Q1 | 15.62 0.38 down from 2023 | 336 | 97% | — | ||
3The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 15.92 0.74 down from 2023 | 458 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
4JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.82Q1 | 10.04 2.03 down from 2023 | 700 | 65% | — | ||
5The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 9.92 0.83 down from 2023 | 681 | 37% | $7,280 | ||
6American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.73Q1 | 8.06 1.93 down from 2023 | 393 | 35% | — | ||
7Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 6.61 2.08 up from 2023 | 184 | 62% | — | ||
8Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.44Q1 | 3.92 2.34 down from 2023 | 282 | 77% | $3,400 | ||
9Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.44Q1 | 9.06 1.02 up from 2023 | 247 | 48% | $4,990 | ||
10Psychedelic MedicineMary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 3.08Q1 | 5.33 1.33 down from 2023 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 6.44 1.41 down from 2023 | 410 | 83% | $4,530 | ||
12Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 5.70 3.82 down from 2023 | 187 | 25% | — | ||
13Journal of College Student PsychotherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.00Q1 | 5.22 2.22 up from 2023 | 30 | — | — | ||
14Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.00Q1 | 9.39 0.93 up from 2023 | 140 | 48% | — | ||
15Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 12.91 3.48 down from 2023 | 207 | 71% | $5,270 | ||
16Evidence-Based Mental HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 12.94 4.06 up from 2023 | 58 | — | — | ||
17American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.69 0.96 down from 2023 | 522 | 34% | — | ||
18European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 2.63Q1 | 4.49 0.33 down from 2023 | 86 | 42% | — | ||
19Nature Mental HealthSpringer Science+Business Media | 2.62Q1 | 5.50no 2023 value | 157 | 55% | $12,690 | — | |
20Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.60Q1 | 17.62 2.57 down from 2023 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 2.58Q1 | 5.76 1.15 down from 2023 | 270 | 100% | $916 | ||
22Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 6.10 0.49 down from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
23Journal of Youth and AdolescenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.51Q1 | 4.34 0.13 down from 2023 | 548 | 41% | $3,890 | ||
24BMJ Mental HealthOABMJ | 2.48Q1 | 5.82no 2023 value | 67 | 100% | — | ||
25Clinical Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.46Q1 | 4.51 1.29 down from 2023 | 264 | 82% | $3,900 | ||
26Body ImageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 6.10 0.03 down from 2023 | 433 | 68% | $4,250 | ||
27Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.45Q1 | 5.88 0.53 up from 2023 | 248 | 44% | — | ||
28npj Mental Health ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media | 2.38Q1 | 5.25 1.53 up from 2023 | 40 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
29Australian Journal of PsychologyOAWiley · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.04 3.36 down from 2023 | 100 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
30European Child & Adolescent PsychiatrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 5.45 1.69 down from 2023 | 619 | 63% | $2,990 | ||
31Psychiatric QuarterlySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.34Q1 | 8.26 4.36 up from 2023 | 190 | 34% | $5,190 | ||
32Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 5.56 0.82 up from 2023 | 323 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
33Psychology Research and Behavior ManagementOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.33Q1 | 4.11 0.08 down from 2023 | 863 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
34Asian Journal of Social Health and BehaviorOAMedknow · India | 2.31Q1 | 5.26 0.19 down from 2023 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
35Current Research in Behavioral SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.74 4.63 down from 2023 | 122 | 100% | $3,480 | ||
36British Journal of Clinical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 3.86 1.43 down from 2023 | 159 | 82% | $3,760 | ||
37Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 4.49 0.10 down from 2023 | 534 | 75% | $3,710 | ||
38BMC PsychologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 4.18 0.02 up from 2023 | 951 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
39Personality ScienceOAGermany | 2.19Q1 | 3.92 0.17 up from 2023 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Abnormal PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.16Q1 | —no 2023 value | 59 | — | — | ||
41Adversity and Resilience ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.16Q1 | 3.18 0.94 down from 2023 | 95 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
41Depression and AnxietyWiley · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.88 1.89 down from 2023 | 191 | 99% | $2,490 | ||
43Journal of Black PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.56 0.41 down from 2023 | 83 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
44Behaviour Research and TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 5.22 0.61 down from 2023 | 396 | 74% | $3,580 | ||
45Developmental PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.13Q1 | 3.59 0.13 down from 2023 | 548 | 45% | — | ||
46Comprehensive PsychiatryOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 5.23 0.04 down from 2023 | 214 | 100% | $3,470 | ||
47European Journal of PersonalitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 4.27 0.23 down from 2023 | 156 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
48Journal of AdolescenceWiley · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 3.97 0.06 up from 2023 | 369 | 73% | $3,150 | ||
49Health Psychology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 11.98 4.31 up from 2023 | 71 | 84% | — | ||
50Journal of PersonalityWiley · United States | 2.09Q1 | 3.50 0.53 down from 2023 | 276 | 76% | $3,780 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Clinical Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology608
- Social Psychology188
- Developmental and Educational Psychology120
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology104
- Applied Psychology10
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
115 additional Clinical Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 608
- Window papers (baseline)
- 192,236 +28.8% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.862 +10.0% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.