Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Aims & Scope

IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science is an international interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the advancement of basic knowledge in the social and behavioral sciences.

IPBS covers such topics as cultural nature of human conduct and its evolutionary history, anthropology, ethology, communication processes between people, and within-- as well as between-- societies.

A special focus will be given to integration of perspectives of the social and biological sciences through theoretical models of epigenesis.

It contains articles pertaining to theoretical integration of ideas, epistemology of social and biological sciences, and original empirical research articles of general scientific value.

History of the social sciences is covered by IPBS in cases relevant for further development of theoretical perspectives and empirical elaborations within the social and biological sciences.

IPBS has the goal of integrating knowledge from different areas into a new synthesis of universal social science—overcoming the post-modernist fragmentation of ideas of recent decades.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.470

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	44

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12194

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	273

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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, Neuroscience, Psychology and Social Sciences, 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.

• Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Beyond the Debate

  Citation: 229

  Authors: Omar, Diana, Gerhard

• Imagination as Expansion of Experience

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Tania, Frédéric

• “Minding the Gap”: Imagination, Creativity and Human Cognition

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Etienne, Michael

• Culture of Science: Strange History of the Methodological Thinking in Psychology

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Aaro

• Why Psychology Cannot be an Empirical Science

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Jan

• Personality Psychology: Lexical Approaches, Assessment Methods, and Trait Concepts Reveal Only Half of the Story—Why it is Time for a Paradigm Shift

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Jana

• Variables in Psychology: A Critique of Quantitative Psychology

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Aaro

• Borders, Tensegrity and Development in Dialogue

  Citation: 75

  Authors: Giuseppina, Luca

• A Neo-Meadian Approach to Human Agency: Relating the Social and the Psychological in the Ontogenesis of Perspective-Coordinating Persons

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Jack, Alex

• Psychology: a Giant with Feet of Clay

  Citation: 68

  Authors: Andrea, Agata, Alessandro

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