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Best open-access journals for Social Psychology

The top Social Psychology journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica
    2.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Anales de Psicología
    1.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Servicio de Publicaciones
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  3. 3
    Animal Cognition
    1.7 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
    0.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Association of Food Technology, Turkey
    Open AccessDOAJScopusTR-Dizin
  5. 5
    Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal
    0.9 cites/paper · Q3 · Scientific Journal Publishers Limited
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    PSYCHOLOGIA
    0.3 cites/paper · Q4
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Universitas Psychologica
    0.3 cites/paper · Q4 · Pontifical Xavierian University
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  8. 8
    Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    0.2 cites/paper · Q4 · Norwegian Medical Association
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Transactions of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open Access
  10. 10
    The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Japan Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
    Open Access
  11. 11
    Magma
    0.0 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessDOAJ
  12. 12
    Psychology Research and Behavior Management
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    BMC Psychology
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Behavioral Sciences
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Stress
    3.7 cites/paper · Q2 · Informa
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education
    3.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
    1.6 cites/paper · Q3 · AOSIS
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  18. 18
    Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology
    0.7 cites/paper · Q3 · University of Almería
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)
    0.4 cites/paper · Q3 · University of São Paulo
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  20. 20
    Psico-USF
    0.2 cites/paper · Q3 · Universidade de São Francisco
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  21. 21
    Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology
    0.3 cites/paper · Q4 · University of Florida
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  22. 22
    The Japanese journal of psychology
    0.3 cites/paper · Q4 · The Japanese Psychological Association
    Open AccessScopusPubMed
  23. 23
    Journal of Psychology Research
    0.6 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open AccessPubMed
  24. 24
    Advances in Psychological Science
    0.6 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Science Press
    Open AccessPubMed
  25. 25
    International Journal of Indian Psychology
    0.3 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Redshine Publication
    Open Access
  26. 26
    Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie
    0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile
    Open Access
  27. 27
    Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Frontiers in Psychology
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
    2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Oxford
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Indian Journal of Psychiatry
    1.6 cites/paper · Q2 · Medknow
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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