Journal profile
Persona Studies
ISSN 2205-5258 · Deakin University · Australia
Persona Studies: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 9 weeks (community reports); 12 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Persona Studies is published by Deakin University. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Gender, Feminism, and Media, Media and Digital Communication and Autobiographical and Biographical Writing, together about 29.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Persona Studies is an academic open access journal that explores the construction of the public self. The concept of persona is explored in its production and performance in a variety of contexts that includes online culture professional practices political culture celebrity culture film, television and popular music game and leisure culture everyday life The editorial vision for the journal is one that facilitates inclusive scholarship and diverse perspectives. We encourage article and creative practice submissions from around the world and from scholars both inside and outside the academy. Where necessary, we will work with authors to develop papers prior to peer review, suggesting ways of bringing them up to the high standard published in Persona Studies. Interested in submitting to this journal? The journal welcomes abstract, full manuscript and creative practice submissions on a rolling basis submitted to personastudies@gmail.com, and in response to calls for papers around a central theme. We recommend that you review the Author Guidelines and Peer Review policy. In addition please review the Ethics and Malpractice statement as it outlines the publication ethics standards that this Journal endorses. Submissions will be vetted by an editor, and if accepted you will receive log-in details for the website via email to allow you to submit to the journal website for peer review. Those submissions accepted for publication after peer-review that do not fit into a themed section will be published in an open section of a forthcoming issue. Please Note: This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 4%); most named Australia 14, United Kingdom 3, United States 2, Mainland China 1, Canada 1 (24 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Gender, Feminism, and MediaSocial Sciences13.6%
- Media and Digital CommunicationComputer Science8.6%
- Autobiographical and Biographical WritingArts and Humanities7.3%
- Music History and CultureArts and Humanities6.3%
- Narrative Theory and AnalysisArts and Humanities6.3%
- Persona Design and ApplicationsComputer Science6.3%
- Digital Games and MediaSocial Sciences5.6%
- Theatre and Performance StudiesArts and Humanities4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Informit-Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, TROVE, the National Library of Australia databasePublisher 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
- h-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.97OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 192 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 3 | 141 |
| 2025 | 12 | 12 | 175 |
| 2024 | 19 | 19 | 148 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 | 148 |
| 2022 | 11 | 11 | 132 |
| 2021 | 17 | 17 | 142 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 9 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 9 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 | |
| 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
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
Article types accepted3
- articleArticlesLength not stated
- articlesLength: Articles should be between 5000 and 8000 words in length, including all headings, footnotes, tables, references and appendices.Length not stated
- perspectives on personaShort articles (think pieces) which are fully refereed, for the purpose of proposing new areas of research, theoretical or methodological approaches, or provica…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Publication ethics Plagiarism and misconduct
In no circumstances will the Editorial team (comprising the Managing Editors and Editorial Board) encourage misconduct or plagiarism or knowingly publish papers where this has occurred. Should the Editorial team be made aware of allegations of misconduct or plagiarism, they will take appropriate steps to remove the publication and undertake investigations. The Managing Editors will undertake the w…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Model summary
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Journal article – Online/open access
Author, Initials year, 'Title of article', Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, pp. #-##, retrieved day Month Year, <URL>
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
As part of its commitment to publication ethics and to ensure a confidential, timely and quality process of peer review is undertaken, Persona Studies sets out the following expectations of Reviewers. Reviewers agree to: Undertake review(s) in an impartial and unbiased way and to agreed timelines and produce review reports as per review guidelines Disclose any potential conflicting or competing in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism and misconduct
In no circumstances will the Editorial team (comprising the Managing Editors and Editorial Board) encourage misconduct or plagiarism or knowingly publish papers where this has occurred. Should the Editorial team be made aware of allegations of misconduct or plagiarism, they will take appropriate steps to remove the publication and undertake investigations. The Managing Editors will undertake the w…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Privacy statement Model summary
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
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
- Deakin University
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2205-5258
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 12, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Persona Studies
How long does peer review take at Persona Studies?
Authors report an average review time of about 9 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 Persona Studies?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Harvard. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Persona Studies based?
Of the 24 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 4%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Australia (14), United Kingdom (3) and United States (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Persona Studies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Persona Studies is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Persona Studies open access, and what is the APC?
Persona Studies 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, DOAJ, 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: .