There is much more to journals than their metrics, but they are not entirely unimportant either.
So, we are happy to announce that the European Journal of Personality (EJP) now has its highest-ever Impact Factor (IF) of 7.0, consolidating its strong position among the most influential personality and social psychology journals.
As the EJP’s Editor, I am very proud of its continuing development and grateful to its past and current Editors, Associate Editors, Editorial Board, Reviewers and Readers. I am especially grateful to the past Editor Mitja Back and his team.
I want to thank our Authors who have chosen EJP as the outlet for their excellent work. They include both early career and highly experienced–renowned researchers, representing a range of countries and working on many topics. Such diversity is very important for the field.
Going forward, here’s how we aim to maintain the EJP’s role in the field:
Attracting the fields’ most innovative and most robust work as the Authors’ first choice.
Using transparent Evaluation Criteria.
Continued commitment to open science. Most EJP submissions have openly accessible data and materials, earning the journal one of the highest Top Factor scores.
Encouraging multi-regional research projects, envisioning that it becomes a standard practice over time.
Fast editorial processes with the average first decision time currently less than 30 days.
Discussing latest personality research in the EJP Blog, EJP Newsletter and Personality Psychology Podcast.
Promoting the field in less represented regions among readers, reviewers and authors.
Besides high-quality regular submissions, we actively seek papers on key and emerging topics that can shape the field’s future. For this, we encourage authors to:
Contact us with target paper ideas (rene.mottus@ed.ac.uk). These can become some of the field's most influential papers.
Contact us with ideas for guest editing special issues on the field’s key topics (rene.mottus@ed.ac.uk).
Submit proposals to the 2025 special issue on measurement processes and interpretation (edited by Kristian Markon).
To keep up with the latest research, please read the EJP-Blog, follow us on Twitter and listen to the Personality Psychology Podcast.
To propose a guest blog post to the EJP Blog, please contact Yavor Dragostinov or Lisanne de Moor.
Best wishes,
René
Our Editorial Team: Daniel Briley, Giulio Costantini (incoming), Elisabetta Crocetti, Odilia Laceulle, Christian Kandler, Kenn Konstabel, Kristian Markon, René Mõttus, Isabel Thielmann, and Jenny Wagner.