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Psychological Science Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

15/3/2025

 
​Psychological science is a broad field that encompasses research into the cognitive, emotional, and social processes that shape human behaviour. It integrates insights from various subfields, including neuroscience, developmental psychology, and experimental psychology, using empirical methods to advance understanding. Journals in this area publish cutting-edge research on topics such as perception, decision-making, mental health, and the biological basis of behaviour. The PJIP database covers several journals actively publishing papers in this area.
Psychological Science Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

Complete Directory of Psychological Science Journals

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

Best Psychological Science Journals

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

Open Access Psychological Science 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 Psychological Science journals in each of these categories.
View Open Access Psychological Science Journalsy

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

List of Psychological Science Journals

    Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceClinical Psychological ScienceCurrent Directions in Psychological ScienceEvolutionary Psychological SciencePerspectives on Psychological SciencePsychological SciencePsychological Science and EducationPsychological Science in the Public InterestTranslational Issues in Psychological Science




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Last Updated: 15th March 2025


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