Journal profile · Psychology-Psychology (miscellaneous)
Discover Psychology
ISSN 2731-4537 · Springer · Switzerland
Discover Psychology: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 1.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,790; median 162 days to acceptance (123 articles, last 24 months); 230 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Discover Psychology is published by Springer and is classed under Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Resilience and Mental Health, together about 22.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Discover Psychology is a fully open access journal that publishes research in behavioral sciences and related fields, including health, environment, neuroscience, business, economics, ergonomics, linguistics, and education. Discover Psychology provides a platform for novel experimental and theoretical findings in all fields of psychology, including clinical, social, cognitive, biological, personality, sports, organizational, developmental, animal, health, and cultural psychology. The journal particularly welcomes transdisciplinary research that looks at emerging applications of psychology in different cultures around the world. Discover Psychology is an open access journal that supports the pre-registration of studies and access to research data. Topics Discover Psychology will publish research that covers topics including, but not limited to, the following: Clinical psychology: treatment, management and assessment of psychological health, occupational health, intervention, e-health, online treatment, counselling, psychotherapy, disorders. Developmental psychology: growth throughout the lifespan. Generational differences. Personality psychology: evolutionary psychology, individual differences. Environmental psychology: built environment. Climate and health. Educational psychology: psychological methods to enhance education. Online learning. Social psychology: racism. social interactions. social support. Discrimination. Family dynamics. Mathematical psychology: computational and theoretical studies of the mind and brain. Statistical methods. Analyses of big datasets. Cognitive psychology: learning. Decision making. Memory. Emotions. Biological psychology and neuroscience: brain, body, and mind relationship. Sports psychology: well-being of athletes. Motivation. Animal behaviour and cognition: animal models. Animal learning. Consumer psychology: online shopping. Green products purchasing. Organizational psychology: women in the workplace. Mental health of workers. Business psychology. Health Psychology: physical health and the mind. Forensic psychology: applying psychological knowledge to legal and criminal matters. Cultural psychology: cultural differences. psychological life of minorities and migrants. Cyberpsychology: cyberbullying. Online personality. Social media. Content Types Discover Psychology welcomes a variety of article types – please see our submission guidelines for details. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevan
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Psychology-Psychology (miscellaneous)
Editor-in-chief Ahmed MoustafaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionPsychology7.5%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology7.4%
- Resilience and Mental HealthPsychology7.2%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology6.6%
- Impact of Technology on AdolescentsSocial Sciences6.5%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions6%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting5.4%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PsycINFOPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.48LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.72OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 222LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 763,700Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 860 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 319 | 319 | 62 |
| 2025 | 230 | 230 | 357 |
| 2024 | 208 | 208 | 881 |
| 2023 | 44 | 44 | 197 |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 662 |
| 2021 | 11 | 11 | 89 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
162 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 122 days – 217 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (123 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 181 days
- Sample
- 123 articles with submission and acceptance dates (625 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 1,490 / USD 1,790 / GBP 1,290 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,590 / EUR 1,190 / GBP 1,040 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 990 / USD 1,490 / EUR 1,140 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers3, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted14
- brief reportWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- case studyWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- commentComment articles can focus on policy, science and society, or purely scientific issues. They should be of immediate interest to a broad readership and should be…Length not stated
- data noteWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- full research articleWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- matters arisingMatters Arising articles are interesting and timely scientific or academic comments and clarifications on original research papers published in the journal.Length not stated
- methodologyMethodologies should present a new experimental or computational method, test or procedure.Length not stated
- original paperWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- original research paperWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- perspectiveA Perspective is a scholarly review and discussion of the primary research literature that does not meet the criteria for a review articleLength not stated
- registered reportRegistered Reports are a publication format in which the research question and the quality of methodology are peer reviewed before the data are collected and an…Length not stated
- researchResearch articles present new scientific results within the scope of the journal that have not been published previously and are not being considered for public…Length not stated
- research articleWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- reviewReview articles provide critical accounts and comprehensive surveys of topics of major current interest within the scope of the journal.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Mandatory funding statement. Model summary
Funding statement - mandatory You need to include a statement which declares whether this work received funding or not.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Mandatory data availability statement. Model summary
All authors must include a data availability statement in their submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Step 4 - Understand your copyright
If your submission is accepted for publication, you will need to sign a licence agreement with Springer Nature to allow us to publish your article. According to this agreement:authors of articles published in this journal retain the copyright of their articles.authors grant Springer Nature a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.authors retain full re-use rig…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
Fully open access journal. Model summary
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Discover Psychology, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top Did you find what you were looking for? Share feedback.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Step 3 - Understand the peer review policy
Single-anonymous peer review; at least two reviewers; editors make final decisions after peer review. Model summary
This journal follows a single-anonymous peer review procedure, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. Peer review process All manuscripts undergo technical checks upon submission. Manuscripts that pass technical checks undergo suitability checks by our in-house editorial team. Eligible manuscripts are …
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
- Springer
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-4537
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Discover Psychology
What CAS zone is Discover Psychology in?
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.
What is the impact factor of Discover Psychology?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.8, h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at Discover Psychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 123 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 162 days (interquartile range 122–217 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Discover Psychology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Reference style: Author–date; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Discover Psychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Discover Psychology is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Discover Psychology open access, and what is the APC?
Discover Psychology is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,790.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-28). Last updated: .