History of Psychology

Aims & Scope

History of Psychology ® features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology's past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced.

It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, the teaching of the history of psychology, and data mining regarding the history of psychology.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14397

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	57

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.376

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	1.10

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Psychology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Nostalgia: The bittersweet history of a psychological concept.

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Krystine Irene

• Grief as pathology: The evolution of grief theory in psychology from Freud to the present.

  Citation: 93

  Authors: Leeat

• G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: Brilliance and nonsense.

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Jeffrey Jensen

• Passionate men, emotional women: Psychology constructs gender difference in the late 19th century.

  Citation: 64

  Authors: Stephanie A.

• Orientalism in Euro-American and Indian psychology: Historical representations of "natives" in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Sunil

• A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry: An obsession with adjustment.

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Robert E., Michael J.

• Gordon Allport, character, and the "culture of personality," 1897–1937.

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Ian A. M.

• Framing psychology as a discipline (1950–1999): A large-scale term co-occurrence analysis of scientific literature in psychology.

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Ivan, Nees Jan

• Théodule Ribot (1839–1916), founder of French psychology: A biographical introduction.

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Serge, David J.

• Advancing further the history of Soviet psychology: Moving forward from dominant representations in Western and Soviet psychology.

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Fernando L.

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