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Personality and Social Psychology Review

SAGE Publications Inc. · United States

ISSN1088-8683eISSN1532-7957

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

Total60

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

5.493

H-Index

225

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

5.156

Total Works

612

Total Citations

174,101

2yr Mean Citedness

8.49

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Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal publishes research on personality and social psychology, with a recent focus on understanding psychological phenomena across diverse cultural contexts, including the Majority World. Articles explore topics such as relationship theories, masculinity threat, social intelligence, radicalization, valence asymmetries, self-inference, gender and sexuality, partisan animosity, self-protection motivation, solidarity, stereotyping, personality traits, happiness pursuit, marginalization, honor, gender equity, cultural behavioral syndromes, and bias against transgender and nonbinary individuals. The journal also emphasizes the importance of decolonizing psychological research and incorporating non-Western theoretical perspectives.

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⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyFour No. A Year

StatusActive

Total Publications612

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

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Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/12 · 50%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1088-8683 / 1532-7957

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

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Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

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Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Social PsychologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Social

Scopus Categories

Social Psychology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Social and Intergroup PsychologyCultural Differences and ValuesBehavioral Health and InterventionsPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior