Journal profile
Health Psychology Bulletin
ISSN 2398-5941 · Ubiquity Press · United Kingdom
Health Psychology Bulletin: fully open access; APC about USD 539; review about 52 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Psychology Bulletin is published by Ubiquity Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Behavioral Health and Interventions, Physical Activity and Health and COVID-19 Prevention and Impact, together about 30.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Health Psychology Bulletin is a disruptive open access journal that encourages full disclosure and explicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviews.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief HPB Editors-In-Chief, Diana Tăut, Gjalt-Jorn Peters & Rik CrutzenPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Behavioral Health and InterventionsPsychology12.7%
- Physical Activity and HealthMedicine9.5%
- COVID-19 Prevention and ImpactSocial Sciences7.9%
- Media Influence and HealthArts and Humanities6.4%
- Communication and COVID-19 ImpactSocial Sciences6.4%
- Smoking Behavior and CessationMedicine4.8%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology4.8%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studiesMathematics4.8%
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
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 7OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 33 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 24 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 32 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 | 27 |
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 52 weeksLetPub ·
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 accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | EUR 500 | — | — |
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 accepted6
- conceptual replicationsexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
- direct replicationsexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
- empirical papersexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
- null findingsexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
- reports of failed manipulationsexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
- reviewsexplicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviewsLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access
open access Model summary
Health Psychology Bulletin is a disruptive open access journal that encourages full disclosure
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
- Ubiquity Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2398-5941
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Psychology Bulletin
How long does peer review take at Health Psychology Bulletin?
Authors report an average review time of about 52 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.
Is Health Psychology Bulletin open access, and what is the APC?
Health Psychology Bulletin is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 539.
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: .