Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology

Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology is published by Euroregional Centre for Applied Psychology. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Psychological Testing and Assessment, Personality Traits and Psychology and Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, together about 34.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology (RJAP) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal committed to the broad dissemination of research findings across all domains of psychology. RJAP welcomes a diverse range of contributions, including empirical studies, systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and papers that advance methodological approaches. RJAP does not publish neither narrative or bibliometric reviews, nor theoretical papers. The journal emphasizes high-quality scholarly work from both researchers and practitioners, with a particular interest in studies that apply psychological principles to real-world issues. RJAP seeks articles that address phenomena from an applied perspective, aiming at both the prevention and intervention of psychological issues. Submissions are encouraged from all fields of applied psychology, such as work and organizational psychology, personality studies, occupational health, cross-cultural research, educational psychology, developmental studies, and environmental psychology, among others.Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology is published in a continuous volume open model: Issue 1 is opened in January and closed at the end of December.The Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology (RJAP) was first published in 1999, as Revista de Psihologie Aplicata. For 11 years, Revista de Psihologie Aplicata aimed at enriching the applied psychological knowledge in Romania. In 2010, with the change of its official name to the Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology, the journal shifted its focus from publishing Romanian-specific papers to publishing papers that are more relevant for the international community. The RJAP archive contains full-text versions of all papers published since 2009 and the Titles and Abstracts of papers published before 2009.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Psychology-Applied Psychology

Editor-in-chief Paul SârbescuPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Romania 7, Belgium 1, Indonesia 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

0.6Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

10OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

11OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.96OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Articles per year (publisher)

2,009Publisher website · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 10 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 10 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Euroregional Centre for Applied Psychology

Country or region

Romania

Language

English, Romanian

ISSN

2392-8441

Electronic ISSN

2392-845X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ