Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
ISSN 0096-3445 · eISSN 1939-2222 · APA
Journal of Experimental Psychology General: CAS Zone 1 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 3.71; hybrid open access; 305 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Experimental Psychology General is published by APA and is in Zone 1 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Memory Processes and Influences and Child and Animal Learning Development, together about 27.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, mental illness, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary. Brief reports will also be accepted (up to 3,000 words, excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowledgments, figures, and figure legends, but including the abstract). Brief reports will typically be rejected without review by editors at a higher rate than longer articles and the Journal will only accept the most innovative and significant empirical and theoretical contributions, with a preference for work that impacts more than one area of psychology and, for empirical contributions, demonstrates high reliability of the results. More About The Journal
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeuroscience11%
- Memory Processes and InfluencesNeuroscience8.5%
- Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPsychology7.6%
- Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsDecision Sciences7.4%
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentNeuroscience5.5%
- Social and Intergroup PsychologySocial Sciences5.3%
- Visual perception and processing mechanismsNeuroscience4.9%
- Behavioral Health and InterventionsPsychology4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 3.71LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.94LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 309OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,080OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.15OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 37.11%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 178LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,537 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 210 | 87 | 62 |
| 2025 | 305 | 138 | 407 |
| 2024 | 295 | 145 | 1,276 |
| 2023 | 314 | 157 | 2,653 |
| 2022 | 267 | 118 | 3,487 |
| 2021 | 287 | 104 | 3,940 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 accepted1, with length limits
- brief reportusual journal publication if necessary. Brief reports will also be accepted (up to 3,000 words, excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowlemain text ≤ 3,000 words
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
- APA
- ISSN
- 0096-3445
- Electronic ISSN
- 1939-2222
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Experimental Psychology General
What CAS zone is Journal of Experimental Psychology General in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Experimental Psychology General is in Zone 1 of Psychology, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Psychology, Experimental; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Experimental Psychology General?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.71; CiteScore 7, h-index 309.
Which databases index Journal of Experimental Psychology General?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Experimental Psychology General is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Experimental Psychology General open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Experimental Psychology General is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .