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. 2017 Apr 11;8:523. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00523

Table 1.

Acceptance of replications in psychology journals by branch of the discipline.

Branch Number of journals accepting replications (Total number of journals, in brackets) Number of journals with an IF > mean IF which accept replications (Total number of journals with IF > mean, in brackets) Number of journals with an IF < mean which accept replications (Total number of journals with IF < mean, in brackets) Number of journals not publicly reporting an IF and which accept replications (Total number of journals not publicly reporting an IF, in brackets)
General 4 (103) 2 (30) 2 (47) 0 (26)
Cognitive 5 (123) 2 (39) 3 (64) 0 (20)
Social 4 (93) 1 (14) 2 (56) 1 (23)
Clinical 0 (78) 0 (25) 0 (35) 0 (18)
Developmental 2 (130) 0 (36) 1 (61) 1 (33)
Sports 1 (12) 0 (2) 1 (8) 0 (2)
Health 1 (110) 0 (33) 0 (41) 1 (36)
Educational 3 (85) 1 (5) 2 (42) 0 (38)
Occupational 1 (67) 0 (17) 0 (35) 1 (15)
Personality/Individual differences 4 (37) 3 (16) 1 (19) 0 (2)
Counseling/Psychotherapy 2 (126) 2 (10) 0 (35) 0 (81)
Behaviorism 1 (14) 0 (0) 0 (8) 1 (6)
Cross-cultural/Minority psychology 2 (46) 0 (0) 2 (12) 0 (34)
Forensic 0 (53) 0 (9) 0 (27) 0 (17)
Biological/Neuropsychology 3 (67) 0 (31) 3 (24) 0 (12)
Evolutionary psychology 0 (7) 0 (2) 0 (1) 0 (4)
Total 33 (1151) 11 (269) 17 (515) 5 (367)