Emotion

Emotion is published by American Psychological Association and is in Zone 2 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health Research Topics, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, together about 30.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes. Studies of psychopathology contributing to the understanding of the role of emotional processes in affective and behavioral disorders are also welcome. Reports of work at the animal and molecular levels will be considered if they help to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of emotion. Most of the articles published in Emotion will be reports of original research, but other types of articles will be considered. ● Articles that present or discuss theoretical formulations of emotion and related affective phenomena that evaluate competing theoretical perspectives, or that offer innovative commentary or analysis on timely topics of inquiry. ● Comprehensive reviews of the empirical literature in an area of study if they contain a meta-analysis. ● Comments on articles published in the journal. ● Direct replications; submissions should include “A Replication of XX Study” in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract.

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Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

3.77LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

8.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.96LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.58LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

221OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,206OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.87OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

10.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

33.73%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

142LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

American Psychological Association

Country or region

Spain

Language

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Frequency

Bi-monthly

Founded

2001

ISSN

1528-3542

Electronic ISSN

1931-1516

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