About this journal
Aims and scope
The oldest free-standing psychoanalytic journal in North America, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly is published every January, April, July, and October. Each issue contains from six to eight original articles, a section of in-depth book reviews and book review essays. In addition, special issues of the Quarterly are devoted to the exploration of key issues in psychoanalysis, encompassing both contemporary subjects and enduring themes that merit rethinking from a variety of viewpoints.
An independent journal with a strong clinical focus, the Quarterly is not wedded to any one school of psychoanalytic thought. Its editorial goals are to encourage and publish the most rigorous original papers from North America and around the world, representing all contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on the theories, practices, research endeavors, and applications of adult and child psychoanalysis.
Peer Review Policy:
Papers in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly undergo editorial screening and double anonymized peer review with the exceptions of invited articles and invited discussions.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 44K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.555 (2023) SNIP
- 0.818 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 65 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 72 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 52 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 40% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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: LUCY LAFARGE - New York, NY, USA
Emeritus Editors/Board of Directors:
JAY GREENBERG - New York, NY, USA
Board of Directors:
AISHA ABBASI - West Bloomfield, MI, USA
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA
DARIA COLOMBO - New York, NY, USA
MARGARET ANN FITZPATRICK HANLY - Toronto, Canada
FRED L. GRIFFIN - Dallas, TX, USA
THEODORE J. JACOBS - New York, NY, USA
ROBERT MICHELS - New York, NY, USA
JUDITH A. YANOF - West Newton, MA, USA
Associate Editors:
DARIA COLOMBO - New York, NY, USA
STEVEN H. GOLDBERG - San Francisco, CA, USA
WENDY W. KATZ - New York, NY, USA
JANE TILLMAN - Stockbridge, MA, USA
Book Review Editor:
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA
Managing Editors:
TERRI C. SMITH
Editorial Board:
PINA ANTINUCCI - London, UK
ROSEMARY H. BALSAM - New Haven, CT, USA
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA
SHARONE BERGNER - New York, NY, USA
ALISON BROWN - New York, NY, USA
LAWRENCE J. BROWN - Newton Centre, MA, USA
JUDITH F. CHUSED - Washington, DC, USA
GIUSEPPE CIVITARESE - Pavia, Italy
PETER B. DUNN - New York, USA
HENRY J. FRIEDMAN - New York, NY, USA
SAMUEL GERSON - Berkeley, CA, USA
GREGORY D. GRAHAM - Houston, TX, USA
CYNTHIA GRAY - Portland, OR, USA
FRED L. GRIFFIN - Dallas, TX, USA
NATHAN KRAVIS - New York, NY, USA
NANCY KULISH - Birmingham, MI, USA
SEBASTIAN LEIKERT - Saarbruecken, Germany
MARIE LENORMAND - Paris-Marseille, France
EUGENE J. MAHON - New York, NY, USA
JOHANNA MALONE - Cambridge, MA, USA
DONALD B. MOSS - New York, NY, USA
THOMAS H. OGDEN - San Francisco, CA, USA
ROBERT PAUL - Atlanta, GA, USA
STUART A. PIZER - Cambridge, MA, USA
WARREN POLAND - Washington, DC, USA
PETER L. RUDNYTSKY - Gainesville, FL, USA
AVGI SAKETOPOULOU - New York, NY, USA
PAUL SCHWABER - Hamden, CT, USA
EDWARD SHAPIRO - Stockbridge, MA, USA
LORRAINE D. SIGGINS - Guilford, CT, USA
RICHARD B. SIMPSON - Quebec, Canada
ALICE SOHN - New York, NY, USA
CHARLES SPEZZANO - San Francisco, CA, USA
MICHELLE STEPHENS - East Brunswick, NJ, USA
JENNIFER STEVENS - Stockbridge, MA, USA
MARK STOHOLSKI - Atlanta, GA, USA
JENNIFER STUART - New York, NY, USA
ALAN SUGARMAN - La Jolla, CA, USA
ADELE TUTTER - New York, NY, USA
JEANINE VIVONA - Philadelphia, PA, USA
HANNAH WALLERSTEIN - Ann Arbor, MI, USA
EVE WATSON - Dublin, Ireland
JASON A. WHEELER VEGA - New York, NY, USA
ELIZABETH WEINBERG - Charlisle, MA, USA
NANCY WINTERS - Portland, OR, USA
JUDITH A. YANOF - West Newton, MA, USA
RICHARD B. ZIMMER - New York, NY, USA
Editorial Associates:
KRISTEN CALLAHAN
SUSAN CHANCE
BERNADINE HAN
THEODORE MURRAY
EDDY CARRILLO RETANA
ANAND DESAI
Abstracting and indexing
Abstract and indexing
MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
SCOPUS (Elsevier)
EBSCO
- Family & Society Studies Worldwide
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
- SocINDEX
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Health & Medical Collection
- Health Research Premium Collection
- Hospital Premium Collection
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Central K-469
- Psychology Database Research Library
- Research Library Prep
- Social Science Database
- Social Science Premium Collection
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Web of Science, © 2018 Clarivate Analytics, Journal Citation Reports® Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Open access
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 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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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to The Psychoanalytic Quarterly at a special society member rate of USD$106 / EUR€86 / GBP£76.
A preferential online-only rate is available to Candidates at $40.
Contact +1 (215) 625-8900 or [email protected] to subscribe.
- APA Division 39
- Boston Psychoanalytic Society
- Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
- Contemporary Freudian Society
- Dutch Psychoanalytic Society
- Freud-Institut Zurich
- German Psychoanalytic Association
- Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society
- Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Israel Psychoanalytic Society
- Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
- PINE Psychoanalytic Center
- Vermont Psychoanalytic Society
- Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute
- American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
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