American Psychologist: impact and ranking
American Psychologist has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.69 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,001 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 482. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.69 #3,001 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 482 #106 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #271 of 18,122
- Works
- 17k 71.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Psychologist?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for American Psychologist: 3.69, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Psychologist #3,001 of 18,122 journals, in the top 17%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Psychologist?
OpenAlex gives American Psychologist an h-index of 482: 482 of its papers have each been cited at least 482 times. That ranks #106 of 18,122 journals.
How much does American Psychologist publish?
OpenAlex records 17,366 works in American Psychologist from 1946 to 2026, cited 1,242,970 times in all, 71.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #271 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Psychologist
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-066X
- In OpenAlex
- 1946 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Psychologist as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S80146597
Journals ranked near American Psychologist
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Psychologist on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,948 | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids | 3.73 | 241 |
| 2,979 | Development | 3.71 | 468 |
| 2,986 | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 3.71 | 296 |
| 3,027 | Forest Ecology and Management | 3.66 | 268 |
| 3,031 | Dalton Transactions | 3.66 | 228 |
| 3,038 | Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics | 3.66 | 295 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.