Journal Links and Impact Scores*
[for Perceptual and Related Cognitive Science Areas]
* Impact score = Average citations per article per year in that journal.

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Area 1: General Science and Psychology
General Topic Science 
SCI
Impact
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General Psychology
SSCI
Impact
1. Nature
2. Science
3. Scientific American
4. American Scientist
5. New Scientist 
22.326
21.074
3.177
1.587 
0.554
1. American Psychologist 
2. Journal of Exper. Psych.: General
3. Psychological Science 
4. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
5. The American Journal of Psychology 
5.304
3.545
2.290
1.532
0.727
General Psychology Review
Teaching and Methodology
1. Psychological Review 
2. Annual Review of Psychology 
3. Psychological Bulletin 
4. Contemporary Psychology 
5. Current Dir.s in Psycholog.Science
5.058
6.821
6.966
6.000
New
1. Canadian Jour.of Exper. Psychology 
2. Teaching of Psychology
3. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers
4. Psychological Methods
5. Cognition and Instruction
0.563
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Area 2: Basic Perceptual Psychology
Basic Perception
SSCI
Impact
.....
Vision 
SSCI
Impact
1. Journal of Experimental Psychology: 
Human Perception & Performance 
2. Perception and Psychophysics 
3. Acta Psychologica 
4. Perception 
5. Perceptual and Motor Skills 
2.732
1.271 
0.946 
0.750 
0.243 
1. Inves. Ophthalmology & Visual Science 
2. Journal of Optical Society of America: A
3. Vision Research 
4. Spatial Vision 
3.555 
1.926 
1.840 
0.604 
Perception Physiology
Visual Cognition
1. Psycophysiology 
2. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavioral Processes 
3. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 
2.349 
1.159
0.426
1. Visual Cognition 
2. Computer Vision & Image Understanding 
3. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 
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Area 3: Audition/Music and Sports/Movement
Audition and Acoustics
SSCI
Impact
.....
Sports
SSCI
Impact
1. Hearing Research 
2. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 
3. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan 
4. American Journal of Physics 
1.9 
1.126 
1. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology 
2. Research Quarterly Exercise & Sport 
3. International Journal of Sport Psychology 
4. Sport Psychology 
1.815 
0.789 
0.351 
0.759 
Music
Human Motor and Movement
1. Music Perception 
2. Computer Music Journal 
3. Psychomusicology 
4. Psychology of Music 
5. Journal of Research in Music Education 
6. Journal of New Music Research 
0.646 
0.528 
low 
low 
1. Journal of Motor Behavior 
2. Human Movement Science 
3. Perceptual and Motor Skills 
4. Journal of Human Movement Studies 
5. Ecological Psychology 
1.108 
0.810 
0.243 
0.146 
0.633 
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Area 4: Cognitive and Computational Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
SSCI
Impact
.....
Computers / Pattern Recognition
SSCI
Impact
1. Cognitive Psychology 
2. Cognition 
3. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 
4. Cognitive Science 
5. Memory and Cognition 
6. Applied Cognitive Psychology 
7. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 
2.207 
1.693 
2.730 
2.378 
1.863 
1.224 
1.089 
1. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 
2. Remote Sens. Environ. 
3. International Journal of Computer Vision 
4. Pattern Recognition 
5. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 
1.917 
1.627 
0.959 
0.903
Mathematical Psychology
Computational / Mechanics 
1. Psychometrika 
2. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 
3. Mathematical Cognition 
4. Psycoloquy 
0.768 
0.766 
1. Biological Cybernetics 
2. IEEE Trans. on Syst. Man & Cyber. 
3. American Journal of Physics 
4. Ergonomics 
5. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers
1.372 
0.687 
0.644 
0.451
0.377
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Area 5: Sensory Perception - Anomolous Phenomena
Anomolous Phenomena 
SSCI
Impact
.....
Parapsychology
SSCI
Impact
1. Skeptical Inquirer
2. Journal of Scientific Exploration
3. Zetetic Scholar
4. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
0.000
1. Journal of Parapsychology 
2. Jour. of Amer. Soc. for Psychical Research
3. Journal of Society for Psychical Research 
4. European Journal of Parapsychology 
5. Parapsychology Review 
0.432
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