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Social Psychology Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

12/3/2025

 
​Social psychology explores how individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by social interactions and societal structures. This field examines topics such as group dynamics, identity, persuasion, prejudice, and interpersonal relationships, often bridging psychology with sociology, politics, and behavioural economics. Journals in this area publish research on both theoretical and applied aspects of social behaviour, including experiments, surveys, and real-world case studies. The PJIP database covers several journals actively publishing papers in this area.
Social Psychology Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

Complete Directory of Social Psychology Journals

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

Best Social Psychology Journals

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

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

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

List of Social Psychology Journals

    American Journal of Community PsychologyAsian Journal of Social PsychologyBasic and Applied Social PsychologyBritish Journal of Social PsychologyCommunity Psychology in Global Perspective.Comprehensive Results in Social PsychologyCultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority PsychologyCultural-Historical PsychologyCulture and PsychologyCurrent Research in Ecological and Social PsychologyCurrent Research in Social PsychologyEcological PsychologyEcopsychologyEnvironment and Social PsychologyEuropean Journal of Social PsychologyEuropean Review of Social PsychologyFeminism and PsychologyInternational Journal of Social PsychologyInternational Review of Social PsychologyJournal of Applied Social PsychologyJournal of Community and Applied Social PsychologyJournal of Community PsychologyJournal of Cross-Cultural PsychologyJournal of Environmental PsychologyJournal of Experimental Social PsychologyJournal of Humanistic PsychologyJournal of Language and Social PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social PsychologyJournal of Social and Clinical PsychologyJournal of Social and Political PsychologyJournal of Social PsychologyJournal of Theoretical Social PsychologyNature Human BehaviourPersonality and Social Psychology BulletinPersonality and Social Psychology ReviewPsychology and AgingPsychology and Developing SocietiesPsychology and SexualityPsychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the ArtsPsychology of Men and MasculinityPsychology of MusicPsychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender DiversityPsychology of ViolencePsychology of Women QuarterlyResearch in Social PsychologySocial and Personality Psychology CompassSocial CognitionSocial Issues and Policy ReviewSocial Psychological and Personality ScienceSocial PsychologySocial Psychology and SocietySocial Psychology QuarterlyThe Journal of Black Psychology




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Last Updated: 12th March 2025


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