Journal profile · Social Sciences-Education
Journal of Intelligence
ISSN 2079-3200 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland
Journal of Intelligence: CAS Zone 3 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.69; JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 60 days to acceptance (140 articles, last 24 months); 164 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Intelligence is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 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 Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Education, Achievement, and Giftedness and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, together about 31.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Intelligence (ISSN 2079-3200) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical articles, state-of-the-art articles and critical reviews, case studies, original short notes, commentaries, and letters. Our aim is to offer an open access journal that moves forward the study of human intelligence: the basis and development of intelligence, its nature in terms of structure and processes, and its correlates and consequences, also including the measurement and modeling of intelligence. Related topics, such as artificial intelligence, and animal intelligence are welcomed as far as they shed light on human intelligence. We encourage authors to document their results in as much detail as possible. The full experimental and data analysis details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced and so that other researchers can better build on earlier work. Detailed descriptions of the procedure, software code and output of analyses must be made available in order to be deposited as supplementary material, unless it is in contradiction with privacy or security regulations or intellectual property rights. The journal will not consider manuscripts that present results or conclusions with mixed language, with misleading wording or with insufficient supporting data that may therefore lead to or enhance political controversies; and the editors will judge whether that is the case.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Education
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 8, Germany 5, Australia 5, United Kingdom 2, Spain 2 (30 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cognitive Abilities and TestingPsychology16.4%
- Education, Achievement, and GiftednessPsychology7.7%
- Creativity in Education and NeurosciencePsychology7.6%
- Emotional Intelligence and PerformancePsychology7.3%
- Knowledge Management and SharingSocial Sciences4.3%
- Advanced Computational Techniques and ApplicationsComputer Science4.3%
- Cognitive Science and MappingComputer Science4.2%
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsMathematics4.1%
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, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · Psychology, Multidisciplinary
- CiteScore Q1 · Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCPubMedPsycINFOPublisher 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
- Impact factor
- 3.69LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.63LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 430OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 161LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,920 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 228 | 228 | 105 |
| 2025 | 164 | 164 | 729 |
| 2024 | 131 | 131 | 953 |
| 2023 | 221 | 221 | 3,665 |
| 2022 | 134 | 134 | 2,967 |
| 2021 | 63 | 63 | 1,468 |
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
60 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 46 days – 78 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 7 days (140 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 71 days
- Sample
- 140 articles with submission and acceptance dates (427 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 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 36.3 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 6.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 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 | CHF 2,600 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 2,600 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 2,600 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers10, by deadline
- The Intersection of Creativity and Intelligence: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesDeadline
- An Empirical Spotlight on the Science of Asking QuestionsDeadline
- Educational Practice That Shapes Intelligence DevelopmentDeadline
- Advancements in Understanding and Supporting Intelligence and Diversity in Autism Spectrum DisorderDeadline
- The Cognitive Processes of Language and Reading: From Early Development to InterventionDeadline
- Cognitive Learning and Application of Emerging Technologies in EducationDeadline
- Cognitive Foundations of Language Comprehension and ProductionDeadline
- Cognitive Processes in Technology-Enhanced Learning: Integrating Technology with Human Cognitive ArchitectureDeadline
- Analogical Reasoning and Relational Thinking: Cognitive Foundations of Intelligence and RationalitiesDeadline
- Exercise and Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, and Neural MechanismsDeadline
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted20
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. Model summary
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
J. Intell. is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsific…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in J. Intell. will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
J. Intell. accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independe…
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
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2079-3200
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 14 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- 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 Journal of Intelligence
What CAS zone is Journal of Intelligence in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Intelligence is in Zone 3 of Psychology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychology, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Intelligence?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.69; CiteScore 6.6, h-index 52.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Intelligence?
Based on the dates recorded on 140 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 60 days (interquartile range 46–78 days); authors report an average review time of about 11 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.
What JCR quartile is Journal of Intelligence in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, Psychology, Multidisciplinary Q1. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Psychology.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Intelligence?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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 Journal of Intelligence based?
Of the 30 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), Germany (5) and Australia (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Intelligence?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Intelligence is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC, PubMed and PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Intelligence open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Intelligence 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: .