JOURNAL OF LOSS & TRAUMA

JOURNAL OF LOSS & TRAUMA is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Migration, Health and Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, together about 49.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

In one forum, Journal of Loss and Trauma brings together scholarship on various losses that may or may not be associated with trauma to advance our knowledge and offer diverse cultural perspectives. The Journal of Loss and Trauma holds a unique position by emphasizing various types of loss as central themes that shape people’s lives. The journal considers loss as an experience of losing someone or something, whether personal, material, or symbolic, to which the person was perhaps emotionally attached. Although each loss is multifaceted and includes layers, it may include one or more of the following: The first aspect addresses physical, sensory, and cognitive loss, such as death and dying, physical challenges, amputation, disability, illnesses, blindness, deafness, memory impairment. The second aspect concerns temporal and developmental loss, such as loss of time, loss of continuity, autobiographical loss, loss of identity, aging, and parentification as a loss of childhood. The third aspect ties to emotional, relational, social, and cultural loss, such as dissolution, divorce, neglect, isolation, lack of intimacy, distrust/mistrust, betrayal, public shame, loss of faith, loss of dignity, loss of belonging, loss of social roles, loss of community, loss of tradition, loss of rituals, loss of language. The fourth aspect addresses stability and safety loss, such as kidnapping, migration, displacement, war, disaster, violence, accident, financial losses, theft, layoff, retirement, homelessness, loss of possessions, loss of privacy, loss of hometown, loss of landmarks, and gentrification. The fifth aspect focuses on psychological and existential loss, such as loss of confidence, loss of doubt, loss of control, loss of hope, loss of energy and motivation, loss of meaning, loss of ideals, loss of humanity, to name a few. It is important to note that many of these losses fall under multiple categories and overlap, which demonstrates the complex and interconnected nature of loss. Journal of Loss and Trauma also addresses different aspects of loss, including ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, cumulative loss, sequential loss, collective loss, and anticipatory loss. The journal recognizes that loss is often experienced as psychological trauma and often irreversible; thus, it may involve despair, emptiness, anger, sorrow, and regret. The journal also supports the view that loss can include transformative shifts in worldview, continuing bonds, resilience, and posttr

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 26, Canada 3, Israel 3, United Kingdom 2, Netherlands 2 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

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

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEPsycINFOCINAHLERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: OCLC, ASSIA: Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, CSA Risk Abstracts, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, Elsevier EMCARE, ERIC Database/CIJE: Current Index to Journals in Education, Family Index Database, NISC Family & Society Studies Worldwide, OCLC ArticleFirst, OCLC Electronic Collections Online, PILOTS, PsycFirst

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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.

Impact

Impact factor

2.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.67Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.98LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.98Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

534OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

13.74%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

75LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

198,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

17%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

60 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

22 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1532-5024

Electronic ISSN

1532-5032

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 7 (2026)

Official links

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