Journal profile
Global Environmental Psychology
ISSN 2750-6630 · PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology · Germany
Global Environmental Psychology: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 12 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: Global Environmental Psychology has experienced a very high volume of manuscript submissions. As a diamond open access journal, our resources for editing and copyediting are limited. We are therefore pausing all submissions of new manuscripts as of 20 March 2026. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Global Environmental Psychology is published by PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Climate Change Communication and Perception, Environmental Education and Sustainability and Social and Intergroup Psychology, together about 56.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Global Environmental Psychology (GEP) is a peer-reviewed, fully open journal that is published online under the PsychOpen GOLD programme of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). It publishes theoretical and applied work on the relationship between people and their environment with a psychological emphasis. Environment is understood in a broad sense and includes natural, built, and virtual environments. GEP welcomes research on environmentally impactful behaviours and behavioural drivers (e.g. perceptions, attitudes, norms, values, identities, abilities, context), on how environments affect people (e.g., performance, behaviour, emotions and well-being), and on the interdependence between humans and the environment (e.g., place attachment, connectedness to nature). The journal is committed to advancing reproducible, transparent, and open science. Measures to achieve this include the publication of replication studies and registered reports and the adherence to the transparency and open science guidelines of the journal for empirical articles. GEP strives to increase diversity in psychological research and to make our field more representative of different human groups. As such, the journal is keen to publish work that makes currently underrepresented authors and populations in environmental psychology visible (e.g., research from outside northwestern Europe and British-descent societies; research involving indigenous and underrepresented populations such as people living in rural regions or belonging to low income groups). Diversity is also sought in terms of different theoretical and methodological (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods) perspectives.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Climate Change Communication and PerceptionSocial Sciences24.8%
- Environmental Education and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science23.9%
- Social and Intergroup PsychologySocial Sciences8%
- Environmental Philosophy and EthicsEnvironmental Science7.1%
- Climate Change Policy and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.5%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology2.7%
- Urban Green Space and HealthEnvironmental Science2.7%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting2.7%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, Dimensions, EBSCO, BASE, PubPsych, Scilit, DNBPublisher website
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
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.68OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 46 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 108 |
| 2025 | 12 | 12 | 181 |
| 2024 | 18 | 18 | 78 |
| 2023 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Open 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- editorialEditorial At a Crossroads: The Future of Global Environmental PsychologyLength not stated
- meta-analyses and systematic reviewsMeta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews What Motivates Individuals or Groups to Engage in Commons Initiatives? A Scoping ReviewLength not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles Communicating the Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Weather in India, the United Kingdom, and the United StatesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright
- License & copyright
Site content licensed under CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Model summary
Unless otherwise noted, site content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (CC BY 4.0)
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
- PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
- Country or region
- Germany
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2750-6630
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Global Environmental Psychology
How long does peer review take at Global Environmental Psychology?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 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.
Which databases index Global Environmental Psychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Global Environmental Psychology is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Global Environmental Psychology open access, and what is the APC?
Global Environmental Psychology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .