Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Counseling and Values
ISSN 0160-7960 · eISSN 2161-007X · Wiley-Blackwell
Counseling and Values: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; APC about USD 2,500; 13 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from October 2021 (Volume 66, Issue 2): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Counseling and Values 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 Counseling Practices and Supervision, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, together about 48.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Counseling and Values promotes theory, research, and practice on the intersection of religion, spirituality, and ethics in the counseling process, with a particular emphasis on the competent and ethical integration of religion and spirituality into counseling. Abstracting and Indexing Information Academic OneFile (GALE Cengage) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing) ArticleFirst (OCLC) Biography Index (EBSCO Publishing) Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO Publishing) Contemporary Women's Issues (GALE Cengage) Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCO Publishing) Education Collection (ProQuest) Education Database (ProQuest) Education Full Text (HW Wilson) Education Index Retrospective (EBSCO Publishing) Education Index/Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) Education Research Complete (EBSCO Publishing) Educator’s Reference Complete (GALE Cengage) Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) General OneFile (GALE Cengage) Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest) Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) MasterFILE Elite (EBSCO Publishing) MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO Publishing) OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson) OmniFile Full Text Select (HW Wilson) Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Publishing) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central K-126 ProQuest Professional Education (ProQuest) Psychology Database (ProQuest) PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA) Religion & Philosophy Collection (GALE Cengage) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing) SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO Publishing) TOC Premier (EBSCO Publishing) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Counseling Practices and SupervisionPsychology22%
- Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologySocial Sciences19.4%
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology6.8%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.8%
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family DynamicsPsychology4.6%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.6%
- Pharmacy and Medical PracticesPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.1%
- Religion, Society, and DevelopmentSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePsycINFOPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.31LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 416OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.89OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 25%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 13LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,538 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2 | 241 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1 | 14 |
| 2023 | 13 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5 | 23 |
| 2021 | 20 | 3 | 125 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,500 / EUR 2,100 / GBP 1,650 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access
- License & copyright For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement
If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access For authors choosing Open Access
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 0160-7960
- Electronic ISSN
- 2161-007X
- Society / sponsor
- Association for Spiritual
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 66, Issue 2 (October 2021)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Counseling and Values
What CAS zone is Counseling and Values in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Counseling and Values is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Applied. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index Counseling and Values?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Counseling and Values is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Counseling and Values open access, and what is the APC?
Counseling and Values is a subscription journal. APC about USD 2,500.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .