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Personnel Review
ISSN 0048-3486 · eISSN 1758-6933 · Emerald
Personnel Review: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.01; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; 107 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Personnel Review is published by Emerald and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Employment and Welfare Studies and Gender Diversity and Inequality, together about 36.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Personnel Review: A Journal of People, Work, and Organisations publishes rigorous, well written articles from a range of theoretical and methodological traditions. Submit to this journal About this journal
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: 4 in mainland China (about 4%); most named United Kingdom 21, Australia 19, United States 13, Canada 10, Mainland China 4 (102 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting23.9%
- Employment and Welfare StudiesHealth Professions6.3%
- Gender Diversity and InequalitySocial Sciences6.1%
- Work-Family Balance ChallengesSocial Sciences6%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting5.8%
- Labor Movements and UnionsSocial Sciences5.8%
- Human Resource and Talent ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
- Emotional Labor in ProfessionsSocial Sciences3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
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
- 5.01LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.51LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.74LetPub ·
- h-index
- 135OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,699OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.36OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 12.08%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 105LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,748 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 118 | 29 | 37 |
| 2025 | 107 | 35 | 402 |
| 2024 | 90 | 25 | 934 |
| 2023 | 76 | 18 | 1,562 |
| 2022 | 141 | 41 | 3,138 |
| 2021 | 127 | 36 | 3,768 |
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
- 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)
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- editorialReview Article — up to 8000 words Research Paper — up to 8000 words Extended Editorial — up to 6000 words Impact Article — up to 5000 words Editorial — up to 30…main text ≤ 6,000 words
- research paperReview Article — up to 8000 words Research Paper — up to 8000 words Extended Editorial — up to 6000 words Impact Article — up to 5000 words Editorial — up to 30…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- review articleReview Article — up to 8000 words Research Paper — up to 8000 words Extended Editorial — up to 6000 words Impact Article — up to 5000 words Editorial — up to 30…main text ≤ 8,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access options
This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review type
Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.
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
- Emerald
- ISSN
- 0048-3486
- Electronic ISSN
- 1758-6933
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 55, Issue 6 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Personnel Review
What CAS zone is Personnel Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Personnel Review is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Industrial Relations & Labor / Psychology, Applied / Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Personnel Review?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.01; CiteScore 11.3, h-index 135.
Where are the editorial board members of Personnel Review based?
Of the 102 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 4 (about 4%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (21), Australia (19) and United States (13). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Personnel Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Personnel Review is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Personnel Review open access, and what is the APC?
Personnel Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .