Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2025
103 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 103 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 3, so the intro names none.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
103 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #9 of 103Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 6.32Q1 | 12.84 0.88 down from 2024 | 316 | 64% | $3,640 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #4 of 103Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 5.73Q1 | 11.72 3.47 down from 2024 | 94 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #9 of 103Journal of CreativityOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 4.86Q1 | 13.59 6.66 up from 2024 | 65 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #8 of 103Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.97Q1 | 5.80 2.95 down from 2024 | 270 | 50% | — | ||
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #6 of 103IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.55Q1 | 8.96 0.29 down from 2024 | 427 | 21% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #9 of 103Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 6.91 0.91 down from 2024 | 584 | 33% | $3,730 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #10 of 103British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 4.81 0.32 up from 2024 | 227 | 73% | $3,760 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #6 and #11 of 103Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 4.61 0.07 down from 2024 | 204 | 53% | $4,720 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 9; likely between #5 and #18 of 103Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.73 0.83 down from 2024 | 172 | 28% | — | ||
Rank 10; likely between #7 and #20 of 103Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q1 | 5.40 1.57 up from 2024 | 188 | 40% | — | ||
Rank 11; likely between #8 and #19 of 103Journal of IntelligenceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.21Q1 | 5.18 0.26 up from 2024 | 473 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #9 and #19 of 103Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 2.15Q1 | 4.28 0.02 down from 2024 | 118 | 44% | $3,530 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #6 and #31 of 103Sleep Medicine ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.94 2.29 down from 2024 | 183 | 30% | $2,950 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #9 and #26 of 103The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.58 1.14 up from 2024 | 168 | 53% | $2,900 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #21 of 103Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 10.66 0.35 up from 2024 | 295 | 43% | $5,950 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #21 of 103EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.53 0.03 down from 2024 | 428 | 30% | — | ||
Rank 17; likely between #5 and #45 of 103Collabra PsychologyOAUniversity of California Press · United States | 1.77Q1 | 2.58 1.38 down from 2024 | 294 | 100% | $975 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #11 and #29 of 103Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.50 1.41 up from 2024 | 75 | 49% | $1,400 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #6 and #43 of 103Language and Linguistics CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.02 0.17 up from 2024 | 64 | 75% | $2,900 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #7 and #53 of 103Philosophical PerspectivesWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.44 0.06 down from 2024 | 50 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #16 and #29 of 103Sleep HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 4.25 1.02 up from 2024 | 374 | 55% | $3,000 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #11 and #44 of 103Journal of World LanguagesOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.51 0.41 down from 2024 | 87 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 23; likely between #16 and #30 of 103Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 4.78 0.17 up from 2024 | 858 | 77% | $4,340 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #16 and #32 of 103Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.01 0.42 down from 2024 | 178 | 52% | $4,330 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #14 and #43 of 103Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.24 0.73 down from 2024 | 63 | 44% | — | ||
Rank 26; likely between #16 and #39 of 103Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 3.32 0.28 up from 2024 | 173 | 47% | — | ||
Rank 27; likely between #20 and #35 of 103Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.90 0.06 down from 2024 | 273 | 32% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 28; likely between #22 and #33 of 103SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 1.35Q2 | 4.19 0.58 up from 2024 | 919 | 91% | $4,388 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 29; likely between #24 and #35 of 103Nature and Science of SleepOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.31Q2 | 3.59 0.27 down from 2024 | 451 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #20 and #47 of 103Possibility Studies & SocietySAGE Publishing | 1.24Q2 | 2.25 1.45 down from 2024 | 103 | 59% | $3,400 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #19 and #52 of 103Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.80 0.04 down from 2024 | 91 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #28 and #37 of 103Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 4.15 1.00 up from 2024 | 1,231 | 39% | $4,350 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 33; likely between #23 and #45 of 103Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.07 0.52 down from 2024 | 65 | 73% | $2,190 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #21 and #53 of 103Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 1.69 0.22 up from 2024 | 59 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 35; likely between #23 and #48 of 103IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.16Q2 | 3.46 0.01 up from 2024 | 135 | 53% | $3,530 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #23 and #54 of 103Current Sleep Medicine ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 4.03 1.05 up from 2024 | 85 | 38% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #7 and #97 of 103PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 0.67 0.38 up from 2024 | 41 | 82% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #29 and #50 of 103SLEEP AdvancesOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.14 0.28 down from 2024 | 196 | 100% | $2,054 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #30 and #50 of 103Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 2.52 0.47 down from 2024 | 132 | 63% | $3,210 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #21 and #64 of 103Language and Semiotic StudiesOAWalter de Gruyter | 1.04Q2 | 2.02 1.05 up from 2024 | 89 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 41; likely between #25 and #58 of 103journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.91 0.25 up from 2024 | 52 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #24 and #64 of 103Sleep Medicine XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 2.27 0.01 down from 2024 | 89 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #35 and #51 of 103Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.36 0.02 down from 2024 | 273 | 56% | $4,090 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #33 and #55 of 103The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.73 0.20 down from 2024 | 140 | 33% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 45; likely between #34 and #57 of 103Clocks & SleepOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.93Q2 | 3.82 1.04 up from 2024 | 154 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #14 and #84 of 103International Journal of Language and CultureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 0.65 0.28 up from 2024 | 38 | 14% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #33 and #61 of 103Gifted Education InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.10 0.06 down from 2024 | 67 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #30 and #69 of 103Journal for Person-Oriented ResearchOASweden | 0.89Q2 | 1.85 0.44 down from 2024 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #38 and #58 of 103Language and CognitionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.93 0.25 up from 2024 | 157 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #40 and #58 of 103Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.98 0.19 up from 2024 | 145 | 45% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 |
1 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+40% vs groupOJR 2.53 → 3.55range +6.4% to +84%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -47% to +90% (ratio scale)
11 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands-62% vs groupOJR 7.08 → 2.74range -77% to -36%
- 2Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom-57% vs groupOJR 1.56 → 0.68range -75% to -27%
- 3Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States-37% vs groupOJR 2.39 → 1.52range -51% to -17%
- 4SLEEPOxford University Press · United States-25% vs groupOJR 1.80 → 1.35range -35% to -15%
- 5Behavioral Sleep MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-31% vs groupOJR 1.26 → 0.87range -45% to -15%
- 6Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States-37% vs groupOJR 3.39 → 2.15range -54% to -13%
- 7Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the ArtsAmerican Psychological Association · United States-35% vs groupOJR 2.12 → 1.39range -51% to -13%
- 8The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States-34% vs groupOJR 1.47 → 0.97range -52% to -11%
- 9Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands-21% vs groupOJR 1.52 → 1.21range -31% to -9.5%
- 10Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States-23% vs groupOJR 1.11 → 0.86range -38% to -6.0%
- 11Thinking Skills and CreativityElsevier BV · Netherlands-20% vs groupOJR 3.87 → 3.12range -33% to -3.8%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -78% to +362% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology604
- Social Psychology190
- Developmental and Educational Psychology121
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology103
- Applied Psychology8
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- General Psychology1
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 68,101 +12.6% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.856 -5.5% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.