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Cognitive Psychology

Academic Press Inc. · United States · Est. 1970

ISSN1095-5623

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.732

H-Indexi

280

SNIPi

1.769

Total Worksi

1,728

Total Citationsi

332,744

2yr Mean Citednessi

10.42

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Psychology; Psychology, Experimental; Artificial Intelligence; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Linguistics and Language; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1970

FrequencyEight No. A Year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,728

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Academic Press Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1095-5623

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.3k

2019

1.3k

2020

469

2021

563

2022

304

2023

818

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Artificial IntelligenceQ1

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ1

Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyQ1

Linguistics and LanguageQ1

Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

PsychologyPsychology, Experimental

Scopus Categories

Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyArtificial IntelligenceLinguistics and Language

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesReading and Literacy DevelopmentNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Frequently asked questions about Cognitive Psychology

Is Cognitive Psychology a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cognitive Psychology: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Cognitive Psychology?

Cognitive Psychology is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 10.42.

Is Cognitive Psychology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cognitive Psychology is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.