Qualitative Research in Psychology

Qualitative Research in Psychology is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Participatory Visual Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, together about 35.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Qualitative Research in Psychology is a leading forum for qualitative researchers in all areas of psychology and seeks innovative and pioneering work that moves the field forward. The journal has published state-of-the-art debates on specific research approaches, methods and analytic techniques, such as discourse analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, visual analyses and online research, the role of qualitative research in specific fields such as psychosocial studies and feminist psychology, and the teaching of qualitative methods in the undergraduate curriculum and on clinical psychology training programs. The journal has also published informative articles on specific aspects of qualitative research processes such as ethics, transcription, and interviewee recruitment, and helped to promote innovative research techniques such as photovoice, autoethnography, template analysis, and psychogeography. Our audience consists of psychology professionals using qualitative methods of inquiry in research in academic, clinical, or occupational settings. While the majority of readers will have an interest in psychology as a discipline, Qualitative Research in Psychology is strongly interdisciplinary in focus and aims to increase awareness of psychology as a social science that embraces a variety of qualitative approaches. By representing the full range of qualitative approaches to psychological research, Qualitative Research in Psychology continues to: stimulate discussion of the relative merits of different qualitative methods in psychology by hosting key debates in the field by leading authors; provide a showcase for exemplary and innovative qualitative research projects in psychology, with regular special issues highlighting developments in the methodological literature; maintain high standards for the conduct and reporting of qualitative research with a rigorous review and editorial policy; strengthen the relationship between psychology and other social and human sciences where qualitative inquiry has a long track record and; place qualitative psychological inquiry appropriately within the scientific, paradigmatic, and philosophical issues that it raises. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-anonymized review.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Australia 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · 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

PsycINFOPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC

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Impact

Impact factor

4.81LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

15.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

9.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

9.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.32Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

2.98LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

2.98Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

387OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

7.75OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

30.91%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

35LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

703,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

9%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

114 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

17 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

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

1478-0887

Electronic ISSN

1478-0895

Latest issue on the website

Volume 23, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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