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Journal of Personnel Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 1866-5888Verify ISSN ↗2190-5150Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 98 / 254 | 61st | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 100 / 258 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Personnel Psychology is Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 98 of 254) and Q2 in Applied Psychology (rank 100 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Personnel 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.848, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
Journal of Personnel Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 1866-5888 and its online ISSN is 2190-5150.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Personnel Psychology has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Journal of Personnel Psychology published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 33. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.9%), Germany (17.8%) and Canada (16.7%).
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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