Top 20 journals in psychiatry and psychology by citation impact
16 July 2009
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999-28 February 2009
| | Journal | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper | | 1 | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1,166 | 70,754 | 60.68 | | 2 | Annual Review of Psychology | 245 | 14,775 | 60.31 | | 3 | Psychological Bulletin | 402 | 23,458 | 58.35 | | 4 | Psychological Review | 375 | 17,987 | 47.97 | | 5 | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2,700 | 113,714 | 42.12 | | 6 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 711 | 29,943 | 42.11 | | 7 | American Psychologist | 494 | 19,563 | 39.60 | | 8 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1,536 | 45,772 | 29.80 | | 9 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1,141 | 30,946 | 27.12 | | 10 | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 750 | 18,326 | 24.43 | | 11 | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 2,630 | 59,308 | 22.55 | | 12 | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1,672 | 37,154 | 22.22 | | 13 | Child Development | 1,170 | 25,795 | 22.05 | | 14 | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1,685 | 36,925 | 21.91 | | 15 | Development and Psychopathology | 552 | 11,758 | 21.30 | | 16 | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 1,056 | 21,487 | 20.35 | | 17 | Journal of Applied Psychology | 1,057 | 20,867 | 19.74 | | 18 | Psychological Medicine | 1,450 | 27,801 | 19.17 | | 19 | Health Psychology | 825 | 15,708 | 19.04 | | 20 | Psychosomatic Medicine | 1,199 | 22,754 | 18.98 |
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The data above were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters. This database, currently covering the period January 1999 through February 2009, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and the journal-to-category field-definition scheme used by Thomson Reuters. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Here, our ranking of journals in psychiatry and psychology is by citations per paper to reveal weighted impact. Essential Science Indicators lists journals ranked in the top 50 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations. In psychiatry and psychology, 299 journals are listed, meaning 598 journals in this field were surveyed.
Of the 299 journals, 48 were cited 10,000 or more times during the period. This ranking of the top 20 by citation impact (citations per paper) should be recognised as distinctly different from the impact factor rankings that are presented in the Journal Citation Reports of Thomson Reuters each year. The impact factor is calculated as citations in Year 3 to a journal’s contents in Years 1 and 2, divided by the number of so-called citable items (regular articles and reviews) in Years 1 and 2. Thus, the above ranking reveals longer-term impact.
For more information on the Essential Science Indicators of Thomson Reuters, see http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/esi.
