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Counselling Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

20/3/2025

 
​Counselling psychology focuses on supporting individuals in managing emotional, social, and psychological challenges to improve well-being and personal development. This field explores topics such as therapeutic techniques, resilience, identity, and mental health interventions, often integrating insights from clinical psychology, humanistic psychology, and psychotherapy. Journals in this area publish research on evidence-based counselling approaches, the therapeutic relationship, and mental health across diverse populations. The PJIP database covers several journals actively publishing papers in this area.
Counselling Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

Complete Directory of Counselling Journals

This post lists the academic peer-reviewed journals that publish in Counselling. All of these can be viewed in the PJIP Directory alongside information about their editors, aims and scope, open-access status, peer-review anonymity, rankings including Impact Factor, SJR, SNIP and for some, operational stats such as acceptance rates, number of submissions, and response times.
View Counselling Journals in the PJIP Directory

Best Counselling Journals

Numerous metrics can be used to determine what the top Counselling journals are. This includes Impact Factor, SJR, SNIP, CiteScore, Citation percentage, and H-index. All of these are readily accessible in the PJIP; users can easily compare these metrics to evaluate how each Counselling journal performs across various criteria.
View the most prestigious Counselling Journals

Open Access Counselling Journals

A key distinction between academic journals is their open access status. The PJIP directory classifies ‘Diamond Open Access’ journals that charge no fees to authors or readers, ‘Paid Open Access’ journals that require authors to pay a fee for open access publication, ‘Hybrid’ journals that offer authors the option to publish open access by paying fees (but will otherwise publish articles non-open access), and ‘Traditional’ journals that charge readers for access to their articles. The PJIP directory can be filtered to show Counselling journals in each of these categories.
View Open Access Counselling Journalsy

To assess the best open access Counselling journals, the PJIP Rankings database can also be filtered by the journal’s open access status.
View Open Access Counselling journal rankings

List of Counselling Journals

    Counseling Psychology and PsychotherapyCounselling Psychology QuarterlyCounselling Psychology ReviewJournal for Social Action in Counseling and PsychologyJournal of Counseling Psychology




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Last Updated: 20th March 2025


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