Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

ISSN 0889-8391 · Springer Nature · United States · active 1987–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
0.9
SJR
0.539
h-index
90

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is Q2 in 1 of its 3 subject categories and Q3 in the other 2. Its best category quartile is Q2.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Clinical PsychologyQ2#143 of 322
Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyQ3#98 of 170
Psychiatry and Mental HealthQ3#315 of 605
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
0.83
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
26

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is Q2 in 1 of its 3 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Clinical Psychology: Q2, #143 of 322), with SJR 0.539 (Scimago) and an h-index of 90 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Scope

childadolescentpsychosocialemotionaldevelopmentclinicalpsychologyanxietydepressionpsychometricstreatmentcognitive

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy?

Papers in Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy are cited about 0.9 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 90. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is Q2 in 1 of its 3 subject categories and Q3 in the other 2. By category: Clinical Psychology: Q2, #143 of 322; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: Q3, #98 of 170; Psychiatry and Mental Health: Q3, #315 of 605. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy is cited about 0.9 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 90.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Clinical Psychology, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy open access?

Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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