Psychological Science: impact and ranking
Psychological Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.35 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,078 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 415. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.35 #1,078 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 415 #179 of 18,122
- Citations
- 808k #500 of 18,122
- Works
- 6.1k 132.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Psychological Science?
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 Psychological Science: 6.35, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Psychological Science #1,078 of 18,122 journals, in the top 6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Psychological Science?
OpenAlex gives Psychological Science an h-index of 415: 415 of its papers have each been cited at least 415 times. That ranks #179 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Psychological Science publish?
OpenAlex records 6,096 works in Psychological Science from 1947 to 2026, cited 808,231 times in all, 132.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #500 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0956-7976
- In OpenAlex
- 1947 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Psychological Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,900.
- Website
- pss.sagepub.com
- OpenAlex record
- S58854535
Journals ranked near Psychological Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Psychological Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,050 | Psychological Review | 6.41 | 505 |
| 1,065 | American Sociological Review | 6.38 | 526 |
| 1,075 | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 6.36 | 266 |
| 1,089 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 6.32 | 372 |
| 1,104 | Journal of Business Ethics | 6.27 | 378 |
| 1,117 | PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 6.24 | 472 |
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.