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European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
ISSN 1359-432X · eISSN 1464-0643 · Taylor & Francis
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology: CAS Zone 2 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.22; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 367 days to acceptance (88 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 7% (journal website); 60 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Workplace Health and Well-being and Employment and Welfare Studies, together about 41.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The mission of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is to promote and support the development of Work and Organizational Psychology by publishing high-quality scientific articles that improve our understanding of phenomena occurring in work and organizational settings. The journal publishes different types of high-quality empirical articles using quantitative or qualitative methods, meta-analyses and systematic reviews. The journal has a world-wide authorship, readership and editorial board. Submissions from all around the world are invited. The journal primarily publishes freely submitted contributions, but will occasionally also publish invited position papers or a themed special issue, although all contributions are submitted to rigorous peer review. Papers and themed special issues are published on a wide range of topics covered by the umbrella of Work, Organizational, Industrial and Occupational Psychology. The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology in general does not publish research relying solely on cross-sectional, self-report survey methods. Peer Review Integrity All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial Editor screening and refereeing by at least two independent, expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submissions may be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. The Editor and Editorial Board of EJWOP are members of the Editor Ethics initiative. Publishing in EJWOP Read past editor, Kevin Daniels' editorial letter concerning EJWOP's mission. Special Issues To submit a proposal for a Special Issue for EJWOP, please fill out the EJWOP Special Issue Proposal Form and email it to the Co-Editors in Chief: Beatrice.vanderHeijden@ru.nl and D.Scholarios@strath.ac.uk. Best Paper Award The winners of the award are selected by the EJWOP editorial team, and are announced every two years, at the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology's congress. The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Award for the best paper on Leadership has also been awarded to authors of this journal. See the past winners for this award. "This journal will certainly fulfil the need of informing the practising W&O psychologist, and perhaps begin to translate the more academically oriented articles published elsewhere, which have enormous relevance but which need to be put in the context of organis
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting28.7%
- Workplace Health and Well-beingHealth Professions6.4%
- Employment and Welfare StudiesHealth Professions6.3%
- Team Dynamics and PerformancePsychology4.5%
- Work-Family Balance ChallengesSocial Sciences4.1%
- Gender Diversity and InequalitySocial Sciences4%
- Workplace Violence and BullyingSocial Sciences3.6%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Ergonomics Abstracts, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), PubsHub, Social Scisearch, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts
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
- 4.22LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 9.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.03LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 2.03Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.91LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.91Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 159OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,068OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.28OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 34.5%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 56LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 727,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,497 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | 27 | 23 |
| 2025 | 60 | 36 | 175 |
| 2024 | 63 | 41 | 646 |
| 2023 | 55 | 35 | 835 |
| 2022 | 49 | 23 | 1,136 |
| 2021 | 67 | 32 | 2,434 |
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 Crossref · to
367 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 298 days – 453 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (88 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 387 days
- Sample
- 88 articles with submission and acceptance dates (114 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 112 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Publication ethics
Editor Ethics initiative membership Model summary
The Editor and Editorial Board of EJWOP are members of the Editor Ethics initiative.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Open Select hybrid open access Model summary
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? I…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Integrity
All research articles undergo rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two independent expert referees; peer review is double anonymized; submissions via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Model summary
All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial Editor screening and refereeing by at least two independent, expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submissions may be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Best Paper Award and CCL Leadership award Model summary
The winners of the award are selected by the EJWOP editorial team, and are announced every two years, at the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology's congress. The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Award for the best paper on Leadership has also been awarded to authors of this journal.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1359-432X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1464-0643
- Society / sponsor
- European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 35, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
What CAS zone is European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is in Zone 2 of Psychology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychology, Applied / Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.22; CiteScore 9.7, h-index 159.
How long does peer review take at European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 88 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 367 days (interquartile range 298–453 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7%. 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 JCR quartile is European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 2 of Psychology.
Which databases index European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology open access, and what is the APC?
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .