Decision

American Psychological Association · United States · Est. 1988

ISSN2325-9973

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.86

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.812

Total Worksi

399

Total Citationsi

4,192

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.91

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Applied Psychology; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology; Social Psychology; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1988

Annual Volume~ 34 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications399

Publisher OrgAmerican Psychological Association

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

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Psychological Association

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2325-9973

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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

189

2019

154

2020

174

2021

178

2022

139

2023

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.

Applied PsychologyQ2

Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyQ2

Social PsychologyQ2

Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Applied PsychologyStatistics, Probability and UncertaintySocial PsychologyNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsForecasting Techniques and ApplicationsEconomic and Environmental ValuationExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesBehavioral Health and InterventionsMental Health Research TopicsBayesian Modeling and Causal InferenceCognitive Science and MappingComplex Systems and Decision Making

Frequently asked questions about Decision

Is Decision a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Decision: 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 Decision?

Decision 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 0.91.

Is Decision indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Decision is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Decision?