LibGuides: Psychology: High impact journals

High impact journals

The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the PSYCHOLOGY category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

1.	Annual review of psychology
2.	Annual review of clinical psychology
3.	Psychological bulletin
4.	Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
5.	Advances in methods and practices in psychological science
6.	Journal of child psychology and psychiatry
7.	Psychological medicine
8.	Psychological review
9.	Journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
10.	Clinical psychological science

Additional categories you can search in the field of PSYCHIATRY/PSYCHOLOGY in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports:

PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.

Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page.