About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Cognitive Psychology publishes contributions from all areas of cognitive psychology, focusing on sound and theory-driven studies that advance our understanding of cognitive mechanisms and processes. Contributors include experimental cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, working in areas as diverse as perception, attention, language processing, numerical cognition, action and motor control, spatial cognition, learning, memory, reasoning, and decision making. Occasionally, contributions are at the intersection of cognitive psychology and related disciplines such as social or clinical psychology; note that such contributions can only be considered if they have clear theoretical implications for cognitive processes. Articles include reports of empirical work (including brief reports) and theoretical reviews. The Journal of Cognitive Psychology encourages solid and reproducible empirical work and therefore stimulates authors to adhere to the best research practices (including an Open Science philosophy). The Journal of Cognitive Psychology is an international journal, and the Editor welcomes submissions from scholars around the world.
Peer Review: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 151K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.763 (2023) SNIP
- 0.507 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 51 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 116 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 31% 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- in-Chief:
Linden J. Ball, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Associate Editors:
Monica Bucciarelli, University of Turin, Italy
Federica Degno, Bournemouth University, UK
Esther Fujiwara, University of Alberta, Canada
Daniele Gatti, University of Pavia, Italy
John E. Marsh, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Michael Pilling, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Beth Richardson , University of Central Lancashire, UK
Editorial Board:
Anna Abraham, University of Georgia, USA
Mauro Adenzato, University of Turin, Italy
Glenda Andrews, Griffith University, Australia
Nina Attridge, University of Portsmouth, UK
Sarah Bate, Bournemouth University, UK
Raoul Bell, Heinrich - Heine University, Germany
Markus Bindemann, University of Kent, UK
Marie- Josée Bisson, De Montfort University, UK
Arndt Bröder, University of Mannheim, Germany
Bo T. Christensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Geoff G. Cole, University of Essex, UK
Amory H. Danek, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Lisa H. Evans, Cardiff University, UK
Niall D. Galbraith, University of Wolverhampton, UK
James A. Grange, Keele University UK
Andrea Hildebrandt, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany
Gernot Horstmann, Bielefeld University, Germany
Robert W. Hughes, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Lara L. Jones, Wayne State University, USA
Sangeet S. Khemlani, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
Sabina Kleitman, University of Sydney, Australia
Jessica K. Ljungberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Jo-Anne LeFevre, Carleton University, Canada
Patrick Lemaire , Aix-Marseille University, France
Chang Liu, Nanjing Normal University, China
Daniel S. McGrath, University of Calgary, Canada
Raymond A. Mar, York University, Canada
Nikole D. Patson, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Pesenti , Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Steven L. Prime, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Paula Rubio-Fernández, University of Oslo, Norway
Carola Salvi, Northwestern University, USA
Wangbing Shen, Hohai University, China
Edward J. N. Stupple, University of Derby, UK
Laura E. Thomas, North Dakota State University, USA
Ian M. Thornton, University of Malta, Malta
Monika Undorf, University of Mannheim, Germany
François Vachon, Laval University, Canada
Adrian von Mühlenen, University of Warwick, UK
Yun Wen, Aix-Marseille University, France
Hiroshi Yama, Osaka City University, Japan
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed in the following publications and databases:
BIOBASE
Biosciences Information Service
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography (CDAB)
Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Ergonomics Abstracts
European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Neurosciences Citation Index
PsycINFO
PubsHub
Research Alerts
SCOPUS
Social Sciences Citation Index
Sociological Abstracts
Social SciSearch
Social Services Abstracts
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Open access
Journal of Cognitive Psychology 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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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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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
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
8 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2011 - current)
Formerly known as
- European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (1989 - 2010)
Issues devoted to a single topic are regularly published in this journal. Click on the titles below for more information.
- Voice, Speech, and Language: Selected Papers from APCAM 2014
Guest Editors: John Neuhoff and Timothy Hubbard
Volume 29, Issue 1 (2017) - Developmental Eye-tracking Research in Reading
Guest Editors: Sascha Schroeder, Jukka Hyönä and Simon P. Liversedge
Volume 27, Issue 5 (2015) - Embodied Numerical Cognition
Guest Editors: Oliver Lindemann and Martin H. Fischer
Volume 27, Issue 4 (2015) - What Bilinguals tell us about Cognitive Control: Linking Language Processing to Cognition
Guest Editors: Susan C. Bobb, Zofia Wodniecka and Judith F. Kroll
Volume 25, Issue 5 (2013) - Mental Models in Cognitive Change
Guest Editors: Monica Bucciarelli, Amelia Gangemi and Walter Schaeken
Volume 25, Issue 2 (2013) - Information Processing, Affect, and Psychopathology: A Festschrift for Michael W. Eysenck
Guest Editors: Nazanin Derakshan and Ernst H. W. Koster
Volume 24, Issue 1 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84872-759-5 - Cognition and Emotion: Neuroscience and Behavioral Perspectives
Guest Editors: Philip Allen, Mei-Ching Lien and Eric Ruthruff
Volume 23, Issue 6 (2011) ISBN 978-1-84872-755-7 - Modeling Word Recognition and Reading Aloud
Guest Editors: Johannes Ziegler, Jonathan Grainger and Marc Brysbaert
Volume 22, Issue 5 (2010) ISBN 978-1-84872-727-4 - Ageing, Cognition and Neuroscience
Guest Editors: Soledad Ballesteros, Lars Goran-Nilsson and Patrick Lemaire
Volume 21, Issue 2/3 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84872-707-6 - Verbalising Visual Memories
Guest Editors: Toby J. Lloyd-Jones, Maria A. Brandimonte and Karl-Heinz Bäuml
Volume 20, Issue 3 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84169-853-3 - Bridging Cognitive Science and Education: Learning, Memory, and Metacognition
Guest Editors: Lisa Son and André Vandierendonck
Volume 19, Issue 4-5 (2007) ISBN 978-1-84169-835-9 - Integrative Views on Dual-task Costs
Guest Editors: Guido P.H. Band and Pierre Jolicœur
Volume 18, Issue 4 (2006) ISBN 978-1-84169-808-3 - The Contribution of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Individual Cognitive Differences and Intelligence
Guest Editor: Cesare Cornoldi
Volume 18, Issue 1 (2006) ISBN 978-1-84169-802-4 - Voluntary and Involuntary Control of Automatic Processing in Spacial Congruency Tasks
Guest Editors: Bernie Caessens, Wim Notebaert, Boris Burle and Eric Soetens
Volume 17, Issue 5 (2005) ISBN 978-1-84169-997-7
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