Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes and Eating Disorders and Behaviors, together about 27.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Clinical Psychologist is the official journal of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists. It is an international peer-reviewed journal which bridges the gap between clinical research and evidence-based practice. It publishes topics of broad general relevance to clinical psychologists working in clinical and clinical health settings around the world, including: Assessment of psychopathology Models and treatment of psychopathology Issues relevant to training in clinical psychology Reviews, research papers (including quantitative and qualitative studies, and clinical case studies), and clinical guidelines are encouraged. The focus is international, but with local perspectives encouraged (e.g. with respect to clinical training, Indigenous people’s issues). The Clinical Psychologist operates a double anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal. Please read the Instructions for Authors before submitting your manuscript to Clinical Psychologist. The manuscript and peer-review reports may be transferred to one of the other journals of the Australian Psychological Society ( Australian Journal of Psychology, Australian Psychologist, or Educational and Developmental Psychologist) if the scope of the paper is not found suitable for publication in the Clinical Psychologist, but is suitable for these other journals. Authors will receive a notification if their manuscript is being considered for transfer, and at that time can decide if they want to pursue the transfer. If authors do NOT wish to be considered for transfer to an alternative journal after rejection for this journal, this should be noted in the cover letter.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY

Editor-in-chief Amy BurtonPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIESSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC, Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing), Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Publishing), ArticleFirst (OCLC), Electronic Collections Online (OCLC), Ergonomics Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing), Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest), Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), ProQuest Central K-111 Psychology Database (ProQuest), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts (T&F), TOC Premier (EBSCO Publishing)

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

2LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.62Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.76LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.76Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

42OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

252OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.39OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

15.38%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

175,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

22%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

14 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

98 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

32 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Founded

1996

ISSN

1328-4207

Electronic ISSN

1742-9552

Society / sponsor

Australian Psychological Society's College of Clinical Psychologists

Latest issue on the website

Volume 30, Issue 2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website