Journal of Family Psychology

Journal of Family Psychology is published by APA and is in Zone 2 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics and Family Dynamics and Relationships, together about 50.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Family Psychology® (JFP) is the premier family research journal. Family psychology is a complex field, as it includes systems perspectives on the multiple influences on relationships, developmental perspectives on how relationships are formed and sustained over time, cultural perspectives on how society and traditions affect relationships, the intersection of individual differences and social relationships, and practice components in how to affect real and meaningful changes in couple, parent, and family relationships. JFP addresses societal challenges faced by families today. Important societal challenges facing families today — risk for divorce in vulnerable families, couple and marital satisfaction in military families, child-raising challenges and positive outcomes in immigrant families, risk and resilience in families who adopt, and relationship transitions in diverse couples and families (e.g., in terms of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability) — are examples of topics addressed in JFP . More About The Journal

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

2.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.16LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

192OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,489OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

45.23%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

140LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

APA

ISSN

0893-3200

Electronic ISSN

1939-1293

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website