Psychology journals list

(please note: the impact factors here are from 2017, haven't updated those in ages, and no longer planning to)

Not sure where to submit? try JANE - Journal / Author Name Estimator

TOP Factor for transparency

Check out the full list of social psychology journals. Sorted by impact factor 2016 followed by 5 year impact factor (according to JCR-Web )

Journal metrics

An interesting new tool to evaluate the journal review process - Journal Reviewer

(another metric here) / Journalysis

Call for papers:

• APA journals

Acceptance rates:

• APA

• Nature - 40.137; 43.769
• Science - 37.205; 38.062
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14.2 ; 20.948 / Calls for commentary proposal & Instructions for contributors
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9.661; 10.414
• Nature scientific reports - 4.259; 4.847
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 4.706; 4.473
• Public Understanding of Science - 2.75; 3.1

• Annual Review of Psychology - 19.950; 29.352
• Psychological Bulletin - 20.850; 24.611
• Psychological Inquiry - 16.455; 15.259
• Psychological Science in the Public Interest - 14.143; 23.625
• Psychological Review - 7.638; 9.506
• Perspectives on Psychological Science - 7.359; 13.170
• American Psychologist - 6.681; 7.329
• Journal of Experimental Psychology : General - 4.42; 5.883 (has brief reports - 3,000 words, excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowledgments, figures and figure legends, but including the abstract)
• Current Directions in Psychological Science - 5.255; 7.269
• Current Opinion in Psychology - 4.162
• Psychological Science - 5.667; 6.297 (has brief reports)
• British Journal of Psychology - 3.139; 3.429 (8000 words, excluding the abstract, reference list, tables and figures)
• Frontiers in Psychology (Open access) - 2.323; 2.822
• Review of General Psychology (APA) - 1.492; 2.450
• Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (edited by Susan Fiske) - no impact factor yet

• Personality and Social Psychology Review (Sage) - 9.361; 11.835
• Advances in Experimental Social Psychology - 5.65; 7.229
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (APA) - 5.733; 7.388
• Collabra:Psychology
• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Sage) - 2.498 (10,000 words, including the abstract, references, and notes)
• Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - 2.870; 3.805 (reports - under 5000 words, brief reports - under 2500 words) - New editorial guidelines January 2016
• Social Psychological and Personality Science (SagePub) - 2.633 (only brief reports under 5000 words)
• European Review of Social Psychology - 1.389; 2.814 (50 pages inclusive everything)
• Social Psychology - 2.602; 1.898
• British Journal of Social Psychology - 1.775; 2.35 (7000 words limit, no abstract, reference list, figures, or tables; has brief reports - 3,500 words including abstract, but excluding references, tables, and figures)
• Social psychology - Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie - Hogrefe Publishing - 1.979
• European Journal of Social Psychology - 1.973; 2.34 (10000 words, has short reports - 4,000 words)
• Journal of Applied Social Psychology - 1.231; 1.414
• Social and Personality Psychology Compass (Wiley) - no impact factor yet
• Social Cognition - 1.813; 1.867 (Guidelines)
• Social Psychology Quarterly - 1.406 ; 3.276 (requires a 25USD fee for submission!)
• Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology - 1.527; 1.812

• Trends of Cognitive Science (Elsvier) - 15.402; 23.659
• Cognitive Psychology (Elsvier) - 3.719; 4.945
• Cognition (Elsevier) - 3.414; 4.420 (has brief reports - 3000 words)
• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - 2.921; 3.490 (has brief reports - 4000 words)
• Topics in Cognitive Science (Wiley) - 3.063 ; 3.563
• Thinking & Reasoning - 2.783 ; 2.275 (has brief reports - 4000 words)
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (APA) - 2.253; 2.546 (has brief reports - 3,000 to 5,000 words in length including references, excluding abstract and footnotes)
• Cognition & Emotion - 2.688 ; 2.875 (has brief articles - 4000 words)
• Memory & Cognition - 2.457 ; 2.577
• Cognitive Science - 2.917; 3.250 (has brief reports - 4000 words)
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (APA) - 2.287; 2.833
• Consciousness and Cognition (Elsvier) - 2.144; 2.383 (articles upto 14,000 words, review longer than 4,000)
• Mind and Language - 1.531 ; 2.293
• Applied Cognitive Psychology - 1.414 ; 1.987
• Journal of Cognitive Psychology - 1.503; 1.766
• Journal of Cognition (unranked, new, 2017, European Society for Cognitive Psychology)

See some related to emotions in Cognition

• Emotion (APA) - 3.251; 4.266
• Emotion Review - 2.591; 4.065
• Motivation and Emotion - 2.067; 2.458

See this list.

• Environment and Behavior - 6.22
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology - 3.494 ; 4.462

• European Journal of Personality - 3.707; 3.688 (no word limit)
• Journal of Personality (Wiley) - 3.590; 4.255 (36 pages, 46 if justified)
• Journal of Research in Personality - 2.417; 2.982 (no word limit, short: 3000 words)
• Personality and Individual Differences (Elsvier) - 2.004; 2.400 (lenghty: 10000 words limit, single study: 5000 words, short communication: 3000 words)
• Psychology and Aging - 2.812; 3.843

• Health Psychology Review - 8.976
• Obesity - 4.389
• Social Issues and Policy Review - 4.214 ; 3.342

• Psychological Methods - 8.430; 9.678
• Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
• Psychological Assessment - 2.825; 4.368
• Assessment - 3.062

• Academy of Management Annals - 11.115; 16.191
• ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW - 9.408; 13.630
• JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT - 7.733; 12.213
• ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL - 7.417; 11.901
• Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior - 6.956; 6.956 (guidelines)
• Academy of Management Perspectives - 4.943; 7.156
• ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY - 4.929; 6.913
• STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL - 4.461; 6.652
• Personnel Psychology - 4.362; 8.176
• Journal of Applied Psychology - 4.130; 6.890
• JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES - 3.962; 7.236
• JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR - 3.607; 5.196
• LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY - 3.094; 4.269
• BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT - 2.982; 3.754
• MANAGEMENT SCIENCE - 2.822; 4.131
• ORGANIZATION SCIENCE - 2.691; 6.145
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - 2.454; 3.955 (guide for authors)
• Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - 2.458 ; 3.941
• European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology - 2.300; 3.159
• Organizational Psychology Review - 2.226; 3.859
• Applied Psychology-An International Review - 1.865 ; 2.415 (25 pages)
• Journal of Business and Psychology - 2.075 ; 3.015 (6000-8000 words)
• European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology - 2.090 ; 2.615
• Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied - 1.836 ; 2.456
• Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology - 1.667 ; 3.461

• Judgment and Decision Making - 2.163
• Medical Decision Making - 2.793
• Behavioural Public Policy
• Risk Analysis - an international journal - 2.898
• Journal of Behavioral Decision Making - 1.715 (guidelines)

• Journal of Economic Psychology - 1.718

• Educational Psychologist - 3.611 ; 5.137
• Journal of Educational Psychology (APA) - 3.518 ; 5.305
• British Journal of Educational Psychology - 2.250 ; 2.468
• Educational Psychology Review - 2.565 ; 4.374
• Psychology and Aging - 2.725; 3.618
• British Journal of Education Psychology - 2.000 ; 2.785
• Contemporary Educational Psychology - 1.929 ; 3.424 (Ex)
• Learning and Individual Differences - 1.565 ; 2.158 (Guide - has short report 5000 words, limit 10000 words)

• Biological Psychology
• Psychology Learning and Motivation - 2.964 ;4.289
• Behavioral Research Methods - 2.928 ; 3.968
• Evolution and Human Behavior - 2.866 ; 3.866
• Intelligence (Elsvier) - 2.800 ; 3.740
• Computers in Human Behavior (Elsvier) - 2.694 ; 3.624
• Acta Psychologica (Elsvier) - 2.248 ; 2.676
• Experimental Psychology - 2.147 ; 2.301
• Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology - 1.657
• The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology - 1.82 ; 2.292
• Political Psychology - 2.384 ; 2.679
• Group Processes & Intergroup Relations - 1.528 ; 2.183
• Psychology of Religion and Spirituality - 1.458 ; 1.983
• European Psychologist - 1.169 ; 1.935
• Philosophical Psychology - 0.723 ; 0.820

• Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
• Decision (APA)
• Nature human behavior
• Translational Issues in Psychological Science (APA, by early career, bridge different domains)
• Motivation Science (APA)

• PLoS One - 2.806; 3.394 (Open Access)
• Sage Open - no impact factor yet
• Royal Society Open Science (no fees yet)

• Median publication delays at 38 APA journals (Patrick S. Forscher)