Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Current Issues in Personality Psychology
ISSN 2353-4192 · eISSN 2353-561X · Termedia Publishing House · Poland
Current Issues in Personality Psychology: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 297 days to acceptance (30 articles, last 24 months); 19 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current Issues in Personality Psychology is published by Termedia Publishing House and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Personality Traits and Psychology, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, together about 28% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Current Issues in Personality Psychology (CIPP) publishes high quality original articles and reviews of recognized scientists that deal with personality theories and research from the perspective of social science, law and medicine. CIPP promotes the study and application of personality psychology to various domains of individual and social functioning. In particular we are interested in such topics as the role of personality in interpersonal relations; individual differences; personality disorders; personality development; personality and behavior dynamics; quality of life and well being; the interplay of culture and personality; biosocial bases of personality; and personality assessment and diagnosis. However, we are open to innovative research and new conceptual reviews in the field of personality science. The articles in this journal are published open access (OA) Copyright: © Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office. The journal is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science for the following tasks: Dissemination of scientific articles and information about the journal, including the costs of adapting technical means – task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0396/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science. Purchase of digital identifiers of electronic documents (DOI – Digital Object Identifier) – task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0396/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science. Purchase of a license for the use of editorial and publishing management software for the years 2022-2023 – task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0396/2021/1 by the M
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Editor-in-chief Beata Pastwa-WojciechowskaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Personality Traits and PsychologyPsychology12.2%
- Personality Disorders and PsychopathologyPsychology8.9%
- Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionPsychology6.8%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology5.9%
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesPsychology5.4%
- Resilience and Mental HealthPsychology4.9%
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-beingPsychology4.3%
- Social and Intergroup PsychologySocial Sciences4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MNiSWPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.23Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.47LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 22OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 93OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.96%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 395 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 17 | 17 | 2 |
| 2025 | 19 | 19 | 17 |
| 2024 | 32 | 32 | 58 |
| 2023 | 33 | 33 | 82 |
| 2022 | 30 | 30 | 156 |
| 2021 | 53 | 53 | 439 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
297 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 193 days – 393 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 106 days (30 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 375 days
- Sample
- 30 articles with submission and acceptance dates (48 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted4
- case reportsCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology (CIPP) accepts case reports.Length not stated
- regular scientific articleA regular scientific article should contain no more than 33,975 characters with spaces in the article, including references (18 pages of 1,800 characters each).Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles should follow the format for a regular article, but should be submitted only after consultation with the Editors.Length not stated
- short reportsShort reports should be no more than 16500 characters including spaces in the article, including references, excluding the structured abstract (100-150 words).Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access, Peer review
- Publication ethics
ICMJE clinical trial registration Model summary
Current Issues in Personality Psychology is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access without publication fees Model summary
Open access journal without publication fees
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review Model summary
Each paper is evaluated in the double-blind review process, in which authors do not know the identity of their reviewers, nor do the reviewers know the identities of the authors.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Termedia Publishing House
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2353-4192
- Electronic ISSN
- 2353-561X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 14 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current Issues in Personality Psychology
What CAS zone is Current Issues in Personality Psychology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Current Issues in Personality Psychology is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Social. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Current Issues in Personality Psychology?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.3, h-index 22.
How long does peer review take at Current Issues in Personality Psychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 30 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 297 days (interquartile range 193–393 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Current Issues in Personality Psychology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Current Issues in Personality Psychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current Issues in Personality Psychology is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Current Issues in Personality Psychology open access, and what is the APC?
Current Issues in Personality Psychology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .