Journal impact factors

This listing includes only journals that have a 2025 JIF (released in 2026). For a full list of journals published by APA, please visit the Journals homepage to browse our portfolio by title or subject.

Following the release of the 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)opens in new window from Clarivate Analytics, APA Publishing is pleased to report that Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) have been assigned to 89% (79) of our titles. Among our ranked journals, 16% are in the top 10% of a category, and 38% are in a category top quartile.

Since last year, 38 APA-published titles increased their JIF, 37 journals improved their ranking within a category, and eight journals moved up a quartile. Some highlights include:

• Psychological Bulletin, APA's journal with the highest JIF, grew from 19.8 to 19.9, maintaining 2nd place in the Psychology category (Science Citation Index Expanded, SCIE) and 3rd place in the Multidisciplinary Psychology category (Social Sciences Citation Index).
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal saw a 58% increase in its JIF, rising from 1.2 to 1.9, jumping significantly in ranking and moving up a quartile in both Psychiatry and Rehabilitation categories.
• Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, the official journal of APA Division 12 (the Society of Clinical Psychology), saw an 18% increase in its JIF, rising from 6.6 to 7.8, ranked 7th out of 184 journals in the Clinical Psychology category
• Psychoanalytic Psychology, the official journal of APA Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, saw its JIF increase by 117%, climbing from 7th to 3rd in the Psychoanalysis category and from 168th to 131st in the Clinical Psychology category.
• Journal of Occupational Health Psychology saw a 72% increase in its JIF, rising from 3.9 to 6.7, and jumping from 23rd to 12th in the Applied Psychology category and from 59th to 26th in the Public, Environmental & Occupational Health category.

Other portfolio highlights:

• APA publishes eight journals in the top quartile of the large and diverse Multidisciplinary Psychology category: Psychological Bulletin (ranking 3rd out of 222 journals, 19.9 JIF), Psychological Methods (8th, 7.5 JIF), American Psychologist (11th, 6.6 JIF), Psychological Review (17th, 57, JIF), Motivation Science (ranking 40th, 3.6 JIF; published on behalf of Society for the Science of Motivationopens in new window), Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (ranking 45th, 3.4 JIF; published on behalf of APA Division 44: Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversityopens in new window), Technology, Mind, and Behavior (ranking 45th, 3.4 JIF), and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (54th, 2.8 JIF; published on behalf of APA Division 50: Society of Addiction Psychologyopens in new window).
• Six APA titles rank in the top 25% of the Clinical Psychology category: Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice (ranking 7th out of 184 journals, 7.8 JIF; published on behalf of APA Division 12: Society of Clinical Psychologyopens in new window), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (8th, 6.0 JIF), Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (17th, 4.6 JIF), Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment (30th, 3.6 JIF), Psychotherapy (38th, 3.3 JIF , published on behalf of APA Division 29: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), and Psychological Assessment (ranking 43rd, 3.1 JIF). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology also ranks 4th for all-time citations (21,382) in this 184-journal category.
• Two APA journals rank in the top quartile of the 116-journal Applied Psychology category: Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, both tied for 12th place with a JIF of 6.7. Journal of Applied Psychology also earned the most all-time citations (56,414) in this category.
• Psychoanalytic Psychology (1.3 JIF), published on behalf of APA Division 39: Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychologyopens in new window, ranks 3rd out of 24 titles in the Psychoanalysis category.
• Two APA titles rank in the top quartile of the Experimental Psychology category: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (ranking 13th of 104, 3.7 JIF) and Emotion (ranking 11th, 3.8 JIF).
• Journal of Educational Psychology (6.4 JIF) ranks 4th out of 73 titles in the Educational Psychology category. It received a total of 23,380 citations, the second highest in the category.
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (6.8 JIF) again led the competitive Social Psychology category in all-time citations (90,080) and ranked 2nd among 77 journals.

Reflecting the breadth and depth of APA Publishing’s journal portfolio, APA-published journals are also highly ranked in 23 categories outside the field of psychology across the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index Expanded. Examples include:

• Humanities, Multidisciplinary: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (3.0 JIF), published on behalf of APA Division 10: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Artsopens in new window, is ranked 5th out of the 404 journals in the Humanities, Multidisciplinary category.
• Ethnic Studies: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (2.4 JIF), published on behalf of APA Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Raceopens in new window, is ranked 6th among 40 journals in the category. Asian American Journal of Psychology (2.1 JIF), published on behalf of the Asian American Psychological Associationopens in new window, ranks 9th.
• Religion: Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (1.8 JIF), published on behalf of APA Division 36: Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, is ranked 6th among 340 journals in this category, part of Clarivate’s Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
• Social Work: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (1.9 JIF), published on behalf of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justiceopens in new window, ranks 21st out of the 99 titles in the expanding Social Work category.
• Family Studies: Journal of Family Psychology (2.4 JIF) is ranked 10th of 66 journals in this category, landing it within the top 15% of journals.
• Law: Two APA journals listed in the Law category remain in its top quartile by JIF: Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law (1.5 JIF) and Law and Human Behavior (3.2 JIF), published on behalf of APA Division 41: American Psychology-Law Societyopens in new window. Law and Human Behavior, ranked 16th among 443 journals, is in the category’s top 4% of journals.
• Management: Journal of Applied Psychology (6.7 JIF) remains in the top quartile of the competitive Management category, ranking 73rd among 426 journals. The journal also holds the second-highest total citations in the category (56,414).
• Public, Environmental & Occupational Health: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (6.7 JIF) is ranked 26th among 443 journals in the Public, Environmental & Occupational Health category, placing it within the top 6% of journals.

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