Psychological Methods

Aims & Scope

Psychological Methods ® is devoted to the development and dissemination of methods for collecting, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting psychological data.

Its purpose is the dissemination of innovations in research design, measurement, methodology, and quantitative and qualitative analysis to the psychological community; its further purpose is to promote effective communication about related substantive and methodological issues.

The audience is expected to be diverse and to include those who develop new procedures, those who are responsible for undergraduate and graduate training in design, measurement, and statistics, as well as those who employ those procedures in research.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	7.8
2024	7.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	4.925

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	195

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	299

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2664

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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

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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.

• Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification.

  Citation: 8372

  Authors: Li-tze, Peter M.

• Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.

  Citation: 7894

  Authors: Patrick E., Niall

• Missing data: Our view of the state of the art.

  Citation: 7683

  Authors: Joseph L., John W.

• Power analysis and determination of sample size for covariance structure modeling.

  Citation: 6727

  Authors: Robert C., Michael W., Hazuki M.

• A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.

  Citation: 6529

  Authors: David P., Chondra M., Jeanne M., Stephen G., Virgil

• Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.

  Citation: 5678

  Authors: Leandre R., Duane T., Robert C., Erin J.

• Forming inferences about some intraclass correlation coefficients.

  Citation: 5007

  Authors: Kenneth O., S. P.

• Methods for integrating moderation and mediation: A general analytical framework using moderated path analysis.

  Citation: 3629

  Authors: Jeffrey R., Lisa Schurer

• The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis.

  Citation: 3590

  Authors: Patrick J., Stephen G., John F.

• Assessing heterogeneity in meta-analysis: Q statistic or I² index?

  Citation: 3247

  Authors: Tania B., Julio, Fulgencio, Juan

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