Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Organisational and Social Dynamics
ISSN 1474-2780 · eISSN 2044-3765 · Karnac Books
Organisational and Social Dynamics: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; 13 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Organisational and Social Dynamics is published by Karnac Books 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 Management and Organizational Studies, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications and Complex Systems and Decision Making, together about 44.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Social Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The aim of Organisational and Social Dynamics is to further the integration of psychodynamic, systemic, and group relations perspectives with the social sciences and humanities in the pursuit of understanding conscious and unconscious processes at work in groups, organisations, and society. We welcome submissions from such fields as management and organisational studies, psychosocial studies, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. OSD is a forum for the publication of theoretical and applied papers that are relevant and accessible to an international readership. It aims to sustain a creative tension between scientific rigour and popular appeal, both developing conversations with the professional and social scientific world and opening up these conversations to practitioners and reflective citizens everywhere. We wish to attract manuscripts from contributors who are aware of their own values, suppositions, and assumptions, the influence of counter-transference in their work, whatever form it takes, and the ability to connect the internal world of individuals and groups with societal and global processes. In addition to scientific papers, Organisational and Social Dynamics also seeks to attract accounts of interventions, in the shape of reports of action research projects or case studies of consultation projects. It often contains a section, Speaking out, which provides a space for personal ideas and polemic. In addition, Reviews provides a space for the review of books, plays, art, and other cultural productions or events that are considered to be of interest as a result of the insights they provide into organisational and social dynamics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting21.7%
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology14.3%
- Complex Systems and Decision MakingDecision Sciences8.6%
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family DynamicsPsychology7.4%
- Team Dynamics and PerformancePsychology4%
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism StudiesPsychology4%
- Social Representations and IdentityPsychology3.4%
- International Student and Expatriate ChallengesSocial Sciences2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | 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, Applied | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.11LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.06LetPub ·
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.11OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 232 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 17 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 19 | 2 | 15 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1 | 15 |
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Karnac Books
- ISSN
- 1474-2780
- Electronic ISSN
- 2044-3765
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Organisational and Social Dynamics
What CAS zone is Organisational and Social Dynamics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Organisational and Social Dynamics is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Applied. 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.
Which databases index Organisational and Social Dynamics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Organisational and Social Dynamics is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Organisational and Social Dynamics open access, and what is the APC?
Organisational and Social Dynamics is a subscription 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .