Journal profile

Psocial

ISSN 2422-619X · Universidad de Buenos Aires · Argentina

Psocial: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 27 articles in 2025.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartile—No CiteScore rank
Review timeabout 8 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year272025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Psocial is published by Universidad de Buenos Aires. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social and Intergroup Psychology, Personality Traits and Psychology and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, together about 31.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

{PSOCIAL} is an electronic, indexed and open access scientific journal, published semi-annually since 2014 by the Sociology department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. The purpose of the journal is to offer a space for discussion and debate for students, researchers and professionals in the field of social psychology. Its thematic scope is mainly oriented to the area of social psychology, although it is open to other related topics and approaches, mainly in relation to the intersection between philosophy, psychology and sociology. Through a peer review process, and in accordance with international ethical guidelines, the journal publishes original articles, review articles, and theoretical or methodological contributions to the discipline, prioritizing research that has implications for the Ibero-American context. ISSN: 2422-619X (online version)

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Social and Intergroup PsychologySocial Sciences10.9%
  2. Personality Traits and PsychologyPsychology10.9%
  3. Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionPsychology9.6%
  4. Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologySocial Sciences8.2%
  5. Resilience and Mental HealthPsychology4.6%
  6. Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences4.1%
  7. Social Representations and IdentityPsychology4.1%
  8. Psychology Research and BibliometricsPsychology4.1%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

SciELOPublisher website

Other: MIAR (Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals), RDIUBA (Institutional Digital Repository), BINPAR (National Bibliography of Registered Periodicals), Sherpa Romeo, Basic Nucleus of Argentine Scientific Journals, Mirab@l, Cabells' Journalytics, CIRC (Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals), AmeliCA, EBSCO (Elton Bryson Stephens Company Information Services), Malena, Sara Network

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

h-index
5OpenAlex ·
i10-index
0OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 195 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026330
202527277
202419197
202322229
2022111112
2021232316

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

Average review time (community reports)
about 8 weeksLetPub ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Double 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

Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ

Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJNo APCNoCC BY-NC
LetPubNo APCNo—

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)

Article types accepted2
  1. articlesThe "articles" section includes empirical or theoretical research reportsLength not stated
  2. reviewsThe “reviews” section includes critical notes on books published in the last 10 years on the subject.Length not stated
Publisher website
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
Authorship Authorship Contribution

Authors should indicate their substantial participation in the manuscript (e.g., manuscript design, data collection, statistical analysis, final manuscript revision, etc.). To determine and identify consistency in authorship and avoid mistakes such as unwarranted authorship. CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy - is strongly encouraged.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest

The editors of {PSOCIAL} undertake to avoid the existence of any conflict of interest between the actors involved in the production. All text sent will be evaluated for its intellectual content, preventing the authors' ethnic or national belonging, their gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political philosophy from interfering in the process. In the same way, those external evaluatio…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Data availability Data Availability Policy

Privacy statement: names and emails used exclusively for journal purposes, not shared with third parties Model summary

{PSOCIAL} promotes transparency and reproducibility of published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in their articles, either to corroborate or to refute the results obtained, in accordance with the provisions of the National Law 26,899 on open access institutional digital repositories. All the information and research data sent to this publication will be uploa…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
License & copyright Copyright Notice

Copyright retained by authors; articles published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Model summary

Authors retain copyright, guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication of the work and accept that the articles published by this journal are available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): interested parties can share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and create from the material ano…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access Open Access Policy

{PSOCIAL} adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), considering that both scientific publications and publicly funded research should circulate freely, free and without restrictions on the Internet. This policy proposes to break the economic barriers that generate inequalities both in access to information and in the publication of research results. The authors accept that the article…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review Peer Review Process

The original manuscripts are submitted to {PSOCIAL} only through the open-source software for the management OJS (Open Journal System) of peer-reviewed academic journals and follow the selection process detailed below: If the manuscript does not comply with the format requirements indicated in the author guidelines, it will be returned to the authors, who may send it again within a maximum period …

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Plagiarism Plagiarism Policy

The policy of {PSOCIAL} is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship. They may not have been previously published in any printed or electronic medium, or be simultaneously evaluated in another journal. In order to respond to plagiarism practices -among them translations, fragmentation of results or "salami slicing", duplication, among others- the journal implements t…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Self-archiving Self-archiving Policy

Self-archiving of the version published by {PSOCIAL} is allowed. Authors can disclose their research published by the media and share academic social networks such as Researchgate, Mendeley or Academia.edu, in the repositories of the institutions to which they belong and on portals, among other sites. During the editorial review process, the Journal will deliver the authors the post-print version …

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
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Country or region
Argentina
Language
Spanish
ISSN
2422-619X
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Psocial

How long does peer review take at Psocial?

Authors report an average review time of about 8 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.

Which databases index Psocial?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Psocial is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is Psocial open access, and what is the APC?

Psocial is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .