30 journals for personality and individual-differences research, from core personality journals to social, assessment, clinical and general outlets. Click a column to sort; use the chips to narrow by area.
Standing is an editorial tier, not a metric: A = a flagship venue in personality psychology or in its own subfield; B = a strong specialist journal; C = a narrower, newer or very small outlet. Treat it as a starting opinion.
JIF is the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor from the June 2026 release (the 2025 JIF), checked on publisher pages wherever they could be read. A † marks a figure that could not be confirmed on the publisher's own page; hover it to see where it comes from. A dash means the journal has no impact factor or none could be confirmed. Quartiles come from the category ranks publishers report. Check JCR before quoting a figure in an application.
Articles/yr counts 2025 articles and reviews indexed in OpenAlex; these are marked ~ because online-first dates and commentary can shift the count. Unmarked numbers are the publisher's own 2025 count. Issues/yr is the 2025 issue count or the publisher's stated frequency; continuous-publication journals are marked "cont."
Personality fit: ●●● personality or individual differences is the journal's core subject; ●●○ the journal publishes personality work regularly; ●○○ it takes personality work that fits its main field.
Acceptance and rejection rates in the scope notes come from the publishers' pages: APA reports rejection rates, SAGE and Wiley report acceptance rates.
Recent changes: Personality Science moved from PsychOpen to SAGE in 2026 and still charges no fees; the Journal of Abnormal Psychology has been the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science since 2022.
Last checked 23 October 2026.