Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies
ISSN 1477-9757 · eISSN 1752-9182 · Taylor & Francis
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.3 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 166 days to acceptance (74 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 41% (journal website); 53 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies 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 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics and Child Therapy and Development, together about 52.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies seeks to create a dialogue among different parts of the person-centered and experiential tradition, to support, inform, and challenge each other and to stimulate their creativity and impact in a broader professional, scientific and political context. The aim of the journal is thus to encourage, and disseminate worldwide, new work on person-centered and experiential therapies, including philosophy, theory, practice, training and research. The journal will not give preference to any parts of the world, nor to any philosophical or theoretical emphases within these approaches, but will instead seek to increase our awareness and appreciation of each other's contributions, maintaining a spirit of inclusiveness to the whole person-centered and experiential field of psychotherapy and counseling. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via Routledge's Submission Portal. Disclaimer
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Italy 1, Australia 1, Portugal 1, Greece 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology27.3%
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family DynamicsPsychology18.7%
- Child Therapy and DevelopmentPsychology6.9%
- Transactional Analysis in PsychotherapyPsychology5.5%
- Psychology, Coaching, and TherapyPsychology4.3%
- Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities3.3%
- Counseling Practices and SupervisionPsychology3.3%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.3%
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, Clinical | 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, Clinical | 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
Indexing the journal's website claims
PsycINFOPublisher 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 (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.43Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.08Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 32OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 153OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.88OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 46.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 11.24%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 44LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 183,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 775 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 41 | 11 | 2 |
| 2025 | 53 | 19 | 61 |
| 2024 | 29 | 5 | 45 |
| 2023 | 31 | 10 | 149 |
| 2022 | 41 | 13 | 167 |
| 2021 | 20 | 5 | 100 |
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 Crossref · to
166 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 108 days – 247 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 21 days (74 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 182 days
- Sample
- 74 articles with submission and acceptance dates (96 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 41%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 46 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 64 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 21 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review; online submission via Routledge's Submission Portal. Model summary
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via Routledge's Submission Portal.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1477-9757
- Electronic ISSN
- 1752-9182
- Society / sponsor
- PCE World
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 25, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies
What CAS zone is Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Clinical. 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.
What is the impact factor of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 32.
How long does peer review take at Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies?
Based on the dates recorded on 74 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 166 days (interquartile range 108–247 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 41%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (1), Australia (1) and Portugal (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies open access, and what is the APC?
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .