Journal profile · Multiple
Personality and Mental Health
ISSN 1932-8621 · eISSN 1932-863X · Wiley-Blackwell
Personality and Mental Health: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.78; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,700; median 127 days to acceptance (89 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 20% (journal website); 62 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Personality and Mental Health is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 53.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour aims to lead and shape the international field in this rapidly expanding area, uniting three distinct literatures: DSM-5/ICD-11 defined personality disorders, psychopathy and offending behaviour. Through its multi-disciplinary and service orientated approach, Personality and Mental Health provides a peer-reviewed, authoritative resource for researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in the areas of personality and mental health. We encourage exchange amongst researchers, as well as debate amongst practitioners and policy makers in this high-profile area. Personality and Mental Health provides an innovative platform for the publication of new approaches to treatment, assessment and service delivery. Personality and Mental Health encourages the following submissions: • Reviews and original research articles, including rapid communications • Clinical case studies, with commentaries by, for example, lawyers, ethicists, service users, etc. • Ideas for relevant special issues • Commentaries We also invite research in associated areas to include service and organisational evaluation and development, law, policy and ethics, research methodology, research practice and dissemination, and education and training.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 12, United States 10, Australia 3, New Zealand 3, Netherlands 2 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Personality Disorders and PsychopathologyPsychology30.1%
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology12.9%
- Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities10.1%
- Personality Traits and PsychologyPsychology5.8%
- Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine4%
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingPsychology4%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology3.7%
- Bipolar Disorder and TreatmentMedicine3.3%
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 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | 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 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | 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 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedPsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- 2.78LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.98LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.09LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 306OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 49.06%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 46LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 54Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 152,967Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 840 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 54 | 32 | 15 |
| 2025 | 62 | 46 | 114 |
| 2024 | 48 | 38 | 165 |
| 2023 | 33 | 18 | 248 |
| 2022 | 45 | 23 | 402 |
| 2021 | 38 | 13 | 463 |
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
127 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 65 days – 181 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (89 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 147 days
- Sample
- 89 articles with submission and acceptance dates (124 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)
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 155 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,700 / EUR 3,090 / GBP 2,440 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- No page charges
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 10
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- case studyction, Book Review, Editorial). Complex case studies of no more than 2,000 words in length are encouraged. The editors will invite up to thrmain text ≤ 2,000 words
- commentaryed. The editors will invite up to three commentaries on the case study (500-1500 words). These commentaries will be drawn from disciplines relevanmain text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship
Papers are eligible for REF Panel A: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Model summary
All papers published in Personality and Mental Health are eligible for Panel A: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience in the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access WALS + standard CTA/ELA and/or Open Access for hybrid titles
Open access licensing: authors may publish under the journal's standard copyright agreement or Open Access under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND). Model summary
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License. Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Blind reviewing system. Model summary
Personality and Mental Health operates a 'blind' reviewing system.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint policy: preprints may be submitted for review and the submitted version may be posted to a preprint server at any time; authors should update pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Model summary
Personality and Mental Health will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1932-8621
- Electronic ISSN
- 1932-863X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 20, Issue 4 (November 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Personality and Mental Health
What CAS zone is Personality and Mental Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Personality and Mental Health is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychiatry / Psychology, Social. 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 Personality and Mental Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.78; CiteScore 4.3, h-index 50.
How long does peer review take at Personality and Mental Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 89 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 127 days (interquartile range 65–181 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20% (2025). 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 Personality and Mental Health?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≤ 10; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. 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 Personality and Mental Health based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (12), United States (10) and Australia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Personality and Mental Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Personality and Mental Health is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Personality and Mental Health open access, and what is the APC?
Personality and Mental Health is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,700.
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: .