American Psychologist

American Psychologist is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal publishes articles of broad interest to psychologists, including empirical reports and scholarly reviews covering science, practice, education, and policy, and occasionally publishes special issues on relevant topics in the field of psychology. The editor-in-chief is Harris Cooper (Duke University).

The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines that provide structure to research planning and reporting and aim to make research more transparent, accessible, and reproducible.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • ATLA Religion Database

• CINAHL

• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences

• EBSCO databases

• Embase

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

• Modern Language Association Database

• PASCAL

• ProQuest databases

• PsycINFO

• Social Sciences Citation Index

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 16.4.