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General Pyschology Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

11/3/2025

 
​Generalist psychology journals cover a wide range of topics within the field of psychology, including cognition, behaviour, mental health, development, and social dynamics. These journals publish research that spans multiple subfields, from clinical and cognitive psychology to neuroscience and organisational behaviour. They often explore theoretical, experimental, and applied aspects of psychology, bridging the discipline with areas such as philosophy, biology, and sociology. The PJIP database covers several journals actively publishing papers in this area.
General Pyschology Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

Complete Directory of General Psychology Journals

This post lists the academic peer-reviewed journals that publish in General Psychology. 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 General Psychology Journals in the PJIP Directory

Best General Psychology Journals

Numerous metrics can be used to determine what the top General Psychology 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 General Psychology journal performs across various criteria.
View the most prestigious General Psychology Journals

Open Access General Psychology 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 General Psychology journals in each of these categories.
View Open Access General Psychology Journalsy

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

List of General Psychology Journals

    Advances in Cognitive PsychologyAmerican Journal of PsychologyAmerican PsychologistAnnals of PsychologyAnnual Review of PsychologyAsian American Journal of PsychologyAustralian Journal of PsychologyBMC psychologyBritish Journal of PsychologyCanadian Psychology / Psychologie CanadienneCogent PsychologyCollabra: PsychologyCurrent Opinion in PsychologyCurrent PsychologyCyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and PsychologyEmotionEuropean Journal of Psychology OpenEuropean PsychologistEurope's Journal of PsychologyFrontiers in PsychologyHellenic Journal of PsychologyHistory of PsychologyInteramerican Journal of PsychologyInternational Journal of Applied Positive PsychologyInternational Journal of Comparative PsychologyInternational Journal of PsychologyInternational Journal of Psychology and Psychological TherapyInternational Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, ConsultationJapanese Psychological ResearchJournal of Analytical PsychologyJournal of Cognitive PsychologyJournal of comparative psychologyJournal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralJournal of Pacific Rim PsychologyJournal of Positive PsychologyJournal of Psychology in AfricaMethods in PsychologyNature Reviews PsychologyNew Ideas in PsychologyNew Zealand Journal of PsychologyNordic PsychologyNorth American Journal of PsychologyOpen Psychology JournalPersonnel PsychologyProfessional Psychology: Research and PracticePsychological BulletinPsychological MethodsPsychological ReviewPsychological StudiesPsychologyPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and PracticePsychology HubPsychology in Russia: State of the ArtQualitative PsychologyQualitative Research in PsychologyReview of General PsychologyScandinavian Journal of PsychologySouth African Journal of PsychologySpanish Journal of PsychologyThe Journal of General PsychologyThe Journal of PsychologyTheory and PsychologyTrends in PsychologyUniversitas PsychologicaZeitschrift fur Psychologie (Journal of Psychology)




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Last Updated: 11th March 2025


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