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Journal of Personality Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SSCI. Published by Guilford Publications.
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ISSN 0885-579XVerify ISSN ↗1943-2763Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 83 / 314 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 196 / 580 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Personality Disorders is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 83 of 314) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 196 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Personality Disorders 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.027, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 114.
Journal of Personality Disorders is published by Guilford Publications. Its print ISSN is 0885-579X and its online ISSN is 1943-2763.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Personality Disorders has an h-index of 142 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Personality Disorders published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 76. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.4%), Australia (8.2%) and Germany (6%).
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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