Psychology Journals

Last update: October 2010,
by Maureen Bell

Below are links to lists of journals of interest for psychology. Electronic access to the full text of many journals is available to Library members through our e-Journals A-Z You need to access these journals through our site, as if you go direct to the publisher's site your library membership will not be recognised, and you will be asked to pay for access to full text.

To check which journals are indexed in PsycINFO use the PsycINFO Journal Coverage List.
To check which journals are indexed in Medline, use the PubMed aphabetical list of journals.
If you just want to check on a single title it's much easier to use the PubMed Journals Database.
To see which journals are indexed in SCOPUS, (our largest database) use the Scopus list of sources.

If there is a particular journal you want to check to see which databases index its contents, use Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

There are some sites which do list free online journals.

I've also provided links to information on Journal Impact Factors and H-Index or Hirsch Numbers, as well as instructions to authors.

Journals Lists

British Psychological Society Journals

Electronic Journals and Periodicals in Psychology and Related Fields
Maintained by John H. Krantz, Hanover College.

PSYCLINE: Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web
An index of over 2,000 psychological and social science journals on the web.

Free Journals Online

PubMed has a digital archive of selected life science journals at PubMedCentral.

Other useful lists are
The Free Medical Journals Site,
HighWire Press -- Free Online Full-text Articles.

Cogprints
CogPrints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. It is a useful source of free full text in this area.

H-Index, or Hirsch Numbers

The H-index, sometimes called the Hirsch Index or Hirsch number, is based on the distribution of citations received by a given researcher's publications. The index was originally proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005.

H Index – A New Measure to quantify the Research Output of Individual Scientists (Lutz Bornmann)

h-index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Journal Impact Factors

The journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The impact factor will help you evaluate a journal’s relative importance, especially when you compare it to others in the same field.

eigenfactor.org - ranking and mapping scientific journals
The Eigenfactor is an alternative or supplement to the impact factor.

Impact factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Thomson Reuters Impact Factor
This essay was originally published in the Current Contents print editions June 20, 1994, when Thomson Scientific was known as The Institute for Scientific Information. It includes details on how to calculate an impact factor.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) allows you to check impact factors of journals in your field.
Access restricted to students and staff of the University.

Instructions to Authors

If you are intending to submit an article for publication you will find that many journals provide instructions to authors on their web pages, a large number of the biomedical journals adhere to the Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. also referred to as the Vancouver Guidelines.

Details of American Psychological Association style and Harvard referencing are here.

Another useful web site is Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences.