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Journal of Individual Differences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SSCI. Published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH.
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ISSN 1614-0001Verify ISSN ↗2151-2299Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (all) | 132 / 220 | 40th | Q3 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 42 / 54 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of Individual Differences is Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 132 of 220) and Q4 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 42 of 54), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Individual Differences is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.512, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 50.
Journal of Individual Differences is published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1614-0001 and its online ISSN is 2151-2299.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Individual Differences has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 217 Scopus journals in Psychology (all).
Journal of Individual Differences published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.1%), Germany (13.3%) and Japan (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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