Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Individual Differences is published by Elsevier 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 Personality Traits and Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, together about 25.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)Personality and Individual Differences is primarily devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, correlational, theoretical, expository/review) which enhance our understanding of the structure of personality and other forms of individual differences, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications. Accessible methodological contributions are also welcome. The Editors invite papers that focus on the genetic, biological, and environmental foundations of individual differences, and possible interaction effects. While we recognize the importance of questionnaires for the measurement of individual differences, we encourage their link to experimental and behavioural measures. Ultimately the editors of PAID view human beings as bio-social organisms and that work on individual differences can be most fruitfully pursued by attending to both these aspects of our nature.We consider studies involving cross-sectional mediation/moderation analyses of self-reported data only when these directly test a theory.Mendelian Randomization studies will not be considered unless they are accompanied by another set of analyses that allow for triangulation of evidence using a different method.Studies using latent profile analysis will be considered only when they are supported by clear theoretical and a priori hypotheses, demonstrate the stability of the profile solution (e.g., through cross-validation), and provide evidence of external validation.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

5.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

314OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

11,018OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.41OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

37.02%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

474LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

63 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to acceptance

143 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0191-8869

Electronic ISSN

1873-3549

Society / sponsor

International Society for the Study of Individual Differences

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website