Psychotherapy Research


Psychotherapy Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in all fields of psychotherapy: outcome, process, education and training of therapists, as well as investigations of services. It is published by Routledge on behalf of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. The founding team of editors consisted of David Alan Shapiro, Hans Strupp, and Klaus Grawe. The current editors are Jeffrey A. Hayes and Wolfgang Lutz.

Abstracting and indexing

Psychotherapy Research is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE, Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, and Innovations & Research. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.95, ranking it in the top quarter of more than 100 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical".