About this journal
Aims and scope
Recognized as the leading source of information on group therapy theory, practice, and research, this journal features contributions from foremost experts in the field. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy offers:
* Clinically-focused articles that integrate existing group theory and research with current group treatment models, process issues, and techniques
* Original empirical work on topics germane to group practice
* Personal, scholarly narrative on topics germane to group practice
* Reviews of existing clinical and research literatures that keep practitioners and researchers well-informed and up to date
* Scholarly work that translate or integrates the group psychotherapy literature with other group-oriented literatures (e.g. pedagogy, social psychology, I/O psychology, leadership, etc.)
*Articles that center topics relevant to historically underrepresented and/or marginalized persons or translate interventions germane to group work with said populations
*Reviews of current books and video releases relevant to group practice
*Special issues on such topics as attachment theory in group practice and social justice issues in group work
© 2018 Thomson Reuters, 2017 Journal Citations Report® ranks the International Journal of Group Psychotherapyin the Clinical Psychology category
Journal metrics
Usage
- 66K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.451 (2023) SNIP
- 0.277 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 75 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 84 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 33 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 36% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Cheri Marmarosh, Ph.D. , ABPP, CGP, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Senior Associate Editor
Gianluca Lo Coco, Ph.D., Professor at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Noelle Lefforge, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor & PPC Director Professional Psychology, Graduate School of Psychology, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
Junior Associate Editor
Louise Wheeler, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Leslie Lothstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Book Review Editor
Lisa Wolcott, M.SW., LCSW, CGP, CDWF, Owner/Senior Therapist, Wolcott Counseling & Wellness, LLC, Gainesville, FL, USA
Editorial Review Board
Claudia Arlo, LCSW-R, CGP, FAGPA, Coordinator, First Step Program, Mount Sinai West; Adjunct Professor, Fordham University and Private Practice, New York, New York, USA
Nina Brown, Ed.D., LCP, NCC, DFAGPA, Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Private Practice, Kansas City, Missouri, USAJohn Caffaro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, California, USA
Elaine Jean Cooper, MSW, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Assistant Professor Emerita in Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Les R. Greene, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, FAGPA, Adjunct Faculty, New York University, and Private Practice, New York, New York, USA
Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA (England), Private Practice, London, United Kingdom
Anthony Joyce, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Priscilla F. Kauff, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada
Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Faculty, Center for Group Studies, New York, New York, USA
Steinar Lorentzen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Reginald Nettles, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, Columbia, Maryland, USA
Mary Nicholas, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Eva D. Papiasvili, Ph.D., ABPP, Co-Chair for North America, IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis; Senior Clinical Faculty and Supervisor, Doctoral Program of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Judith Schoenholtz-Read, Ed.D., FAGPA, Faculty, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Joseph J. Shay, Ph.D., CGP, LFAGPA, Private Practice, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bernhard Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychosocial Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Jena, Germany
Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, Adjunct Associate Faculty, New York University, Chair Advanced Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, New York, USA
Thomas Treadwell, Ed.D., TEP, CGP, Psychologist, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Haim Weinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Director of International Programs, The Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, California, USA
Martyn Whittingham, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Whittingham Psychological Services, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Abstracting and indexing
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy is indexed in the following services:
- Bell & Howard Information and Learning
- Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE
- PsycINFO
- Research Alert
- SCOPUS
- Social SciSearch
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Sociological Abstracts
- Thomson Reuters
Open access
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Society information
Members of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) can receive an individual print subscription to the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy at a special society member rate of US$20/£15/€17. Contact for US: 1(800) 354-1420 or 1(215) 625-8900 (option 4 for both); for UK: 011 44 20 8052 0501 or email
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to subscribe.Members of The American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) also receive access to the following journals:
- Developmental Neuropsychology
- International Journal of Mental Health
- Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives
- Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy: Innovations in Clinical and Educational Interventions
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