European Psychologist is a quarterly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

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 and the official organ of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations

European Federation of Psychologists' Associations

The European Federation of Psychologists' Associations is an umbrella organization of national societies in the field of psychology that are located in the European Economic Area. Currently, there are 35 member associations, which together represent over 200,000 psychologists...

, and is additionally supported by local, country-specific European psychological organizations. The journal was established in 1996 and is published by Hogrefe Publishing. It contains articles describing empirical research studies, brief reports, and research reviews, including meta-analyses

Meta-analysis

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. The editor-in-chief is Alexander Grob (University of Basel

University of Basel

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).

Abstracting and indexing

European Psychologist is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents

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/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index

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, PsycINFO

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, PASCAL, and Scopus

Scopus

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

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of 1.481.