Journal profile · PSYCHIATRY
Journal of Personality Disorders
ISSN 0885-579X · eISSN 1943-2763 · Guilford Press
Journal of Personality Disorders: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.56; subscription journal; 29 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Personality Disorders is published by Guilford Press and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications and Mental Health and Psychiatry, together about 55.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Personality Disorders Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders Editors: Robert F. Krueger, PhD, University of Minnesota and John M. Oldham, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHIATRY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Personality Disorders and PsychopathologyPsychology32.3%
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology14%
- Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities9.6%
- Personality Traits and PsychologyPsychology7.8%
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingPsychology4.6%
- Mental Health Research TopicsPsychology4.1%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology3.9%
- Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychology3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 2.56LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.06LetPub ·
- h-index
- 142OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,445OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.3OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 27LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,999 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 29 | 4 | 42 |
| 2024 | 36 | 4 | 147 |
| 2023 | 42 | 9 | 394 |
| 2022 | 30 | 5 | 294 |
| 2021 | 58 | 16 | 645 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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 websiteAuthorship
- Authorship
Journal manuscript submission instructions are on individual journal pages. Model summary
For information on submitting journal manuscripts, please see the Instructions to Authors on individual journal pages.
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
- Guilford Press
- ISSN
- 0885-579X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1943-2763
- Society / sponsor
- International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Personality Disorders
What CAS zone is Journal of Personality Disorders in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Personality Disorders is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychiatry. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Personality Disorders?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.56; CiteScore 4.8, h-index 142.
Which databases index Journal of Personality Disorders?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Personality Disorders is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Personality Disorders open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Personality Disorders is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .