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Personal Relationships

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1994

ISSN1350-4126eISSN1475-6811

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.898

H-Indexi

129

SNIPi

1.003

Total Worksi

1,491

Total Citationsi

66,864

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.28

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Communication; Family Studies; Psychology, Social; Anthropology; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Life-span and Life-course Studies; Social Psychology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1994

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,491

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1350-4126 / 1475-6811

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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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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

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

645

2019

710

2020

672

2021

513

2022

402

2023

215

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

AnthropologyQ1

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ2

Life-span and Life-course StudiesQ2

Social PsychologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

CommunicationFamily StudiesPsychology, Social

Scopus Categories

AnthropologyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologySocial PsychologyLife-span and Life-course Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Attachment and Relationship DynamicsEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorFamily Dynamics and RelationshipsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentMarriage and Sexual RelationshipsIntergenerational Family Dynamics and CaregivingSocial and Intergroup PsychologyBehavioral Health and InterventionsIntimate Partner and Family ViolenceCultural Differences and Values

Frequently asked questions about Personal Relationships

Is Personal Relationships a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Personal Relationships: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Personal Relationships?

Personal Relationships is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.28.

Is Personal Relationships indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Personal Relationships is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Personal Relationships?