Table 2.
Ranking of journals with more than 50 citations in Psychological Research in 2019 (source: Journal Citation Reports) and ranks of journals with less citations listed in Table 5 of Scheerer (1988). For comparison the ranks of the journals for the years 1986/87 are given (ranks among 30 journals, neglecting the conference series “Attention and Performance” in Table 5 of Scheerer, 1988); in that column journals which appeared only 1986 or later are marked by “–-”, and journals which did not appear in Scheerer’s list by “???”
| 2019 | 1986/87 | |
|---|---|---|
| Journal of Experimental Psychology: HPP | 1 | 4 |
| Psychological Research | 2 | 8 |
| Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | 3 | –- |
| Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | 4 | 1 |
| Psychological Science | 5 | –- |
| Consciousness & Cognition | 6 | –- |
| Frontiers in Psychology | 7 | –- |
| Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 8 | 6 |
| PLoS ONE | 9 | –- |
| Neuropsychologia | 10 | 20 |
| Cognition | 11 | 22 |
| Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC | 12 | 11 |
| Psychological Bulletin | 13 | 13 |
| Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 14 | –- |
| Psychological Review | 15 | 3 |
| Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | 16 | 7 |
| Memory & Cognition | 17 | 2 |
| Experimental Brain Research | 18 | 23 |
| Acta Psychologica | 19 | 10 |
| Journal of Neuroscience | 20 | ??? |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 | ??? |
| Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 22 | –- |
| Journal Cognitive Neuroscience | 23 | –- |
| Science | 24 | 14 |
| Behavior Research Methods | 25 | ??? |
| Neuroimage | 26 | –- |
| Psychology & Aging | 27 | –- |
| Cognitive Psychology | 28 | 9 |
| Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 29 | 28 |
| Nature | 30 | ??? |
| Vision Research | 31 | 21 |
| Journal of Neurophysiology | 34 | 27 |
| Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | 35 | 24 |
| Perception | 43 | 18 |
| Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 49 | 16 |
| Perceptual and Motor Skills | 61 | 19 |
| British Journal of Psychology | 64 | 17 |
| American Psychologist | 69 | 25 |
| Journal of Memory and Language | 74 | 5 |
| American Journal of Psychology | 111 | 15 |
| Zeitschrift für Psychologie | 155 | 30 |
| Psychologische Beiträge | 223 | 26 |
| Canadian Journal of Psychology | 280 | 12 |
| Psychological Monographs | –- | 29 |
(For 2019 citations of Psychological Research includes Psychologische Forschung, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General includes Journal of Experimental Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology includes Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology-A, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics includes Perception & Psychophysics; Psychologische Beiträge includes Psychology Science Quarterly which has no impact factor but is assigned a rank according to four citations and alphabetical order among all journals with four citations and an impact factor).