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Journal of Personality Assessment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), formerly ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0022-3891Verify ISSN ↗1532-7752Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 55 / 314 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 135 / 580 | 76th | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 51 / 151 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Journal of Personality Assessment is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 55 of 314), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 135 of 580) and Q2 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 51 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Personality Assessment 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.166, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 128.
Journal of Personality Assessment is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0022-3891 and its online ISSN is 1532-7752.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Personality Assessment has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Personality Assessment published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 100. 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 (35.7%), Germany (8.5%) and Canada (7.7%).
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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