Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Psychology journal rankings 2024
1,036 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Psychology has 1,036 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, and World Psychiatry.
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.
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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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1Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 15.19 6.29 down from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
2Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.81Q1 | 20.89 0.91 up from 2023 | 93 | 53% | — | ||
3World PsychiatryWiley · Italy | 6.51Q1 | 15.62 0.38 down from 2023 | 336 | 97% | — | ||
4Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 6.13Q1 | 13.73 7.90 up from 2023 | 253 | 64% | $3,640 | ||
5The Lancet Public HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 15.92 0.74 down from 2023 | 458 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
6Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 9.84 4.49 down from 2023 | 358 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
7Animal SentienceOAUnited States | 4.92Q1 | 11.52 9.55 up from 2023 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
8International Journal of Transgender HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.84Q1 | 13.31 0.51 up from 2023 | 119 | 99% | — | ||
9JAMA PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.82Q1 | 10.04 2.03 down from 2023 | 700 | 65% | — | ||
10ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 7.95 0.21 up from 2023 | 64 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
11Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.42Q1 | 11.07 4.30 down from 2023 | 240 | 71% | $4,790 | ||
12Computers in Human Behavior Artificial HumansOAElsevier BV | 4.39Q1 | 14.64no 2023 value | 36 | 100% | $1,540 | — | |
13Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 6.34 0.70 down from 2023 | 92 | 76% | $3,700 | ||
14The Lancet PsychiatryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 9.92 0.83 down from 2023 | 681 | 37% | $7,280 | ||
15Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.09Q1 | 5.43 0.19 up from 2023 | 131 | 76% | $3,530 | ||
16Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.96Q1 | 7.99 1.06 up from 2023 | 317 | 40% | — | ||
17Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.88Q1 | 8.75 0.77 down from 2023 | 260 | 54% | — | ||
18International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.79Q1 | 6.09 0.90 up from 2023 | 67 | 73% | $3,290 | ||
19American Journal of PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association · United States | 3.73Q1 | 8.06 1.93 down from 2023 | 393 | 35% | — | ||
20Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 7.81 0.64 up from 2023 | 513 | 33% | $3,730 | ||
21Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 6.61 2.08 up from 2023 | 184 | 62% | — | ||
22Journal of Research on AdolescenceWiley · United States | 3.44Q1 | 3.92 2.34 down from 2023 | 282 | 77% | $3,400 | ||
23Current Psychiatry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.44Q1 | 9.06 1.02 up from 2023 | 247 | 48% | $4,990 | ||
24Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 6.98 2.00 down from 2023 | 385 | 67% | $4,150 | ||
25Review of General PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.24Q1 | 4.11 1.27 down from 2023 | 79 | 47% | $3,900 | ||
26Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 4.68 0.78 down from 2023 | 227 | 58% | $4,720 | ||
27Psychedelic MedicineMary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 3.08Q1 | 5.33 1.33 down from 2023 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.07Q1 | 9.25 1.80 up from 2023 | 366 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
29Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 3.07Q1 | 4.11 0.60 down from 2023 | 58 | 67% | — | ||
30Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryWiley · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 6.44 1.41 down from 2023 | 410 | 83% | $4,530 | ||
31Current Opinion in PsychiatryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 5.70 3.82 down from 2023 | 187 | 25% | — | ||
32Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.01Q1 | 5.67 2.39 up from 2023 | 109 | 37% | — | ||
33Journal of CreativityOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 3.01Q1 | 6.93 3.52 up from 2023 | 61 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
34Journal of College Student PsychotherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.00Q1 | 5.22 2.22 up from 2023 | 30 | — | — | ||
35Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.00Q1 | 9.39 0.93 up from 2023 | 140 | 48% | — | ||
36Social Psychology of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 4.21 0.51 down from 2023 | 264 | 56% | $3,290 | ||
37Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.93Q1 | 6.69 1.21 down from 2023 | 77 | 64% | $4,330 | ||
38Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 5.93 0.52 up from 2023 | 111 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
39Clinical Psychology ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 12.91 3.48 down from 2023 | 207 | 71% | $5,270 | ||
40Canadian Journal of School PsychologySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.79Q1 | 2.29 3.43 down from 2023 | 55 | 82% | $3,650 | ||
41Evidence-Based Mental HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 12.94 4.06 up from 2023 | 58 | — | — | ||
42Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 1.85 3.15 down from 2023 | 68 | 64% | $2,900 | ||
43British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.49 0.05 up from 2023 | 232 | 77% | $3,760 | ||
44American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.69 0.96 down from 2023 | 522 | 34% | — | ||
45European PsychologistHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 2.63Q1 | 4.49 0.33 down from 2023 | 86 | 42% | — | ||
46Nature Mental HealthSpringer Science+Business Media | 2.62Q1 | 5.50no 2023 value | 157 | 55% | $12,690 | — | |
47Annual Review of Clinical PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.60Q1 | 17.62 2.57 down from 2023 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
48Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.33 0.83 down from 2023 | 560 | 89% | $4,320 | ||
49Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOAAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 2.58Q1 | 5.76 1.15 down from 2023 | 270 | 100% | $916 | ||
50Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 6.10 0.49 down from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $3,550 |
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.
220 additional 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
- 1,036
- Window papers (baseline)
- 479,050 +21.4% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.915 +7.2% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 68Comparison-group list (68)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.