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Current Opinion in Psychology is a review journal in Elsevier’s Current Opinion series. It is catalogued under Print ISSN 2352-250X, launched in 2015, and appears bimonthly. This guide covers what the journal is, how to find and cite its articles, and how to read its impact factor and related metrics responsibly.
What Current Opinion in Psychology Is
Current Opinion in Psychology belongs to Elsevier’s Current Opinion collection, a group of review journals that each publish bimonthly. The collection lists the psychology title with ISSN 2352-250X and a 2015 start. Researchers exploring core principles within what is psychology can use review journals of this kind to orient themselves in a subfield before turning to primary studies.
Current Opinion in Psychology Impact Factor and Metrics
Impact factor questions are the most common reason people search for this journal. The current Journal Impact Factor is published each year in Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and the CiteScore is published in Scopus; both change with every annual release, so read the value and its year directly from those sources or from the journal’s page on ScienceDirect rather than from a secondary copy.
| Indicator | Where to read it | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Journal Impact Factor | Clarivate Journal Citation Reports | Average citations in one year to items the journal published in the previous two years. |
| CiteScore | Scopus source record | Citations to items published in a multi-year window, divided by the number of those items. |
| Issue cadence | Elsevier Current Opinion collection | Bimonthly publication. |
Review articles tend to attract more citations than single empirical reports, so a review journal’s impact factor should not be compared directly with that of an empirical journal. Under the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), a journal-level metric also says nothing about the quality of any individual article. Our journal impact factor entry explains the calculation in more detail.
Finding Articles and Citing Them
For comprehensive background searches, build a structured PsycINFO search strategy and combine it with a search of the publisher’s ScienceDirect platform. Authors who share working drafts on a disciplinary preprint server such as PsyArXiv receive a persistent identifier; see the entry on the CrossRef DOI for how DOIs are used to track a work. For the ethics of authorship in the field, see gift and ghost authorship in psychology.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the impact factor of Current Opinion in Psychology?
The value changes every year. Read the current Journal Impact Factor and its release year in Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports, and the CiteScore in Scopus, and always quote the year with the number.
Who publishes Current Opinion in Psychology?
Elsevier publishes it as part of its Current Opinion collection. The title has ISSN 2352-250X, started in 2015, and is published bimonthly.
How do I check whether I may submit to the journal?
Consult the journal’s Guide for Authors on ScienceDirect for its current submission and commissioning rules before contacting an editor.
Sources
- Wikipedia. Current Opinion (Elsevier), checked 2026-11-07. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Opinion_in_Psychology
- Elsevier. Current Opinion in Psychology journal page on ScienceDirect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology
- Elsevier. Current Opinion in Psychology Guide for Authors. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2352250X/publish/guide-for-authors
- Clarivate. Journal Citation Reports. https://jcr.clarivate.com/
- Elsevier. Scopus Sources. https://www.scopus.com/sources
