Journal of Applied Psychology: impact and ranking
Journal of Applied Psychology has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.08 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,708 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 527. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.08 #1,708 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 527 #68 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #225 of 18,122
- Works
- 11k 124.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Applied Psychology?
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 Journal of Applied Psychology: 5.08, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Applied Psychology #1,708 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Applied Psychology?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Applied Psychology an h-index of 527: 527 of its papers have each been cited at least 527 times. That ranks #68 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Applied Psychology publish?
OpenAlex records 11,189 works in Journal of Applied Psychology from 1800 to 2026, cited 1,394,264 times in all, 124.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #225 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Applied Psychology
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-9010
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Applied Psychology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S166002381
Journals ranked near Journal of Applied Psychology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Applied Psychology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,671 | PEDIATRICS | 5.14 | 516 |
| 1,680 | British Journal of Pharmacology | 5.13 | 318 |
| 1,684 | Inorganic Chemistry | 5.13 | 310 |
| 1,780 | Annals of Internal Medicine | 4.96 | 648 |
| 1,785 | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | 4.96 | 287 |
| 1,789 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 4.95 | 483 |
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.