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American Psychologist

ISSN 0003-066X

• Q1Quartile
• 2.00SJR
• 294h-index
• 10papers summarised

About this journal

American Psychologist is a Q1 journal by SCImago Journal Rank (2025 data), with an SJR of 2.00 and an h-index of 294. Most of its papers in the Pofolia pool fall under General Psychology. Pofolia holds AI summaries of 10 paper(s) from this journal; the most cited is “The benefits of playing video games.” (2407 citations).

The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's percentile position within its subject area by SCImago Journal Rank; Q1 is the top 25%. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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Papers we summarise from this journal

• The benefits of playing video games.2013 · 2407 citations
• Risk and resilience in family well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.2020 · 2213 citations
• Liking, wanting, and the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.2016 · 1403 citations
• The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary.2018 · 975 citations
• Upending racism in psychological science: Strategies to change how science is conducted, reported, reviewed, and disseminated.2021 · 376 citations
• COVID-19 and ageism: How positive and negative responses impact older adults and society.2020 · 258 citations
• Mapping the gender attrition gap in academic psychology.2026 · 2 citations
• Toward equitable fidelity measurement of evidence-based psychosocial interventions.2026 · 1 citations
• Developmental engaged methods of observation (DEMO): A proposal for science and society.2026 · 0 citations
• Frank Farley (1937–2026).2026 · 0 citations

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