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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0022-3514Verify ISSN ↗1939-1315Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 14 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 6 / 315 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.4.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 14 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 6 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 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 13.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.767, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 468.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-3514 and its online ISSN is 1939-1315.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has an h-index of 762 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published 210 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 266. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.8%), Germany (15%) and Canada (13%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 40 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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