Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
I-Perception
ISSN 2041-6695 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
I-Perception: CAS Zone 3 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.13; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 176 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 47.9% (journal website); 56 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
I-Perception is published by SAGE Publishing and is in Zone 3 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Multisensory perception and integration and Color perception and design, together about 43.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
i-Perception (IPE) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal well suited to publishing in emerging fields of perceptual research where movies and on-...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Editor-in-chief Pascal MamassianPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 21, United States 6, Netherlands 5, Germany 3, Italy 3 (56 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Visual perception and processing mechanismsNeuroscience24.7%
- Multisensory perception and integrationPsychology10.4%
- Color perception and designPsychology8.2%
- Face Recognition and PerceptionNeuroscience6%
- Aesthetic Perception and AnalysisNeuroscience5.5%
- Tactile and Sensory InteractionsNeuroscience5%
- Neural dynamics and brain functionNeuroscience5%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeuroscience4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | 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, Experimental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 1.13LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.75LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 386OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.1OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,731 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 47 | 47 | 10 |
| 2025 | 56 | 56 | 55 |
| 2024 | 55 | 55 | 109 |
| 2023 | 54 | 54 | 194 |
| 2022 | 43 | 43 | 358 |
| 2021 | 77 | 77 | 1,190 |
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 PubMed · to
176 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 105 days – 276 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 38 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 223 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (113 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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 47.9%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 52 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 156 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 34 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 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 | GBP 1,000 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,278 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,400 / GBP 520 / GBP 1,000 / GBP 385 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted13
- hypothesisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, J…Length not stated
- i-reviewsManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- journal clubManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- methods paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, J…Length not stated
- methods papersManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- registered reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, J…Length not stated
- registered reportsManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- repliesManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, J…Length not stated
- short & sweetManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- short reportsManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
- standard articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, J…Length not stated
- standard articlesManuscripts may be submitted as Standard articles, Short Reports, Registered Reports, i-Reviews, Journal Club (formerly, i-Comment), Short & Sweet, Replies or M…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Manuscript content licensed under Creative Commons Licenses Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
i-Perception is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, inst…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2041-6695
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- 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 I-Perception
What CAS zone is I-Perception in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, I-Perception is in Zone 3 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Experimental. 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 I-Perception?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.13; CiteScore 2.4, h-index 55.
How long does peer review take at I-Perception?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 176 days (interquartile range 105–276 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 47.9%. 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 I-Perception?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: APA. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of I-Perception based?
Of the 56 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (21), United States (6) and Netherlands (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index I-Perception?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, I-Perception is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is I-Perception open access, and what is the APC?
I-Perception is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .