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
Check out the full list of social psychology journals. Sorted by impact factor 2016 followed by 5 year impact factor (according to JCR-Web )
An interesting new tool to evaluate the journal review process - Journal Reviewer
(another metric here) / Journalysis
Call for papers:
Acceptance rates:
General science (difficult, but not impossible)
- 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
- 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
General psychology
- 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
- Current Directions in Psychological Science - 5.255; 7.269
- Current Opinion in Psychology - 4.162
- Psychological Science - 5.667; 6.297 (has brief reports)
- 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
More specific
Social
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Cognition
- 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)
- 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)
Emotion
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
Environmental psychology
See this list.
- Environment and Behavior - 6.22
- Journal of Environmental Psychology - 3.494 ; 4.462
Personality
- 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)
- Psychology and Aging - 2.812; 3.843
Applied and health
- Health Psychology Review - 8.976
- Obesity - 4.389
- Social Issues and Policy Review - 4.214 ; 3.342
Methods
- Psychological Methods - 8.430; 9.678
- Psychological Assessment - 2.825; 4.368
- Assessment - 3.062
Management / IO Psychology
- 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
- 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 / economics
- Judgment and Decision Making - 2.163
- Medical Decision Making - 2.793
- Journal of Economic Psychology - 1.718
Educational
- 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)
Other
- 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
- 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
Unranked
- Decision (APA)
- Translational Issues in Psychological Science (APA, by early career, bridge different domains)
- Motivation Science (APA)
Open access
- PLoS One - 2.806; 3.394 (Open Access)
- Sage Open - no impact factor yet
- Royal Society Open Science (no fees yet)
Related readings
- Median publication delays at 38 APA journals (Patrick S. Forscher)