SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY is published by Society for Personality Research and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Social and Intergroup Psychology and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, together about 25.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

SBP Journal publishes papers on all aspects of social, personality, and developmental psychology. We are interested in research that explores how these fields intersect with other areas of human activity, for example in education, healthcare, management, or government. We therefore accept papers that cover multiple fields, as long as links to social psychology predominate. We emphasize accessibility of knowledge and making up-to-date research available to lay readers. We welcome contributions from a range of individuals, from early-career to well-established researchers and are committed to providing reviews that will enable research work to be developed further. All papers submitted to SBP must be original, follow ethics recommendations, and make a novel addition to the literature. A case must be made for the work’s importance and relevance. Some studies may be quite narrow in scope and others more wide-reaching or significant. In both cases we encourage authors to develop the work in a way that can impact on practical, day-to-day living, including 1) empirical and experimental reports, with real-world applications, 2) theoretical commentaries or reviews, and 3) well elaborated meta-analyses prepared to a high critical standard. We do not accept book reviews and do not seek conference proceedings to publish as supplementary issues. We do however consider brief research notes or reports, if researchers are looking to report in a timely manner on either partially completed research or brief findings that can be presented in under 1,000 words.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

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Impact

Impact factor

1.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

110OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,163OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.21OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

97.75%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

204LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Society for Personality Research

ISSN

0301-2212

Electronic ISSN

1179-6391

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website