What are considered the ranking/ratings of all empirical journals in Social/Personality Psychology?

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  • While there is virtually unanimous agreement that JPSP is the top empirical journal in Social/Personality psychology, the ranking/ratings of other journals can be separated into general groupings such as first tier, second tier, and third tier.
  • The groupings/tiers are only intended to convey a general ordering of the journals, and is not meant to convey that any one journal is ranked/rated higher or lower than any other journal within that grouping, and is not meant to convey that there are strict boundaries between groupings.
  • There are undoubtedly many people who will disagree with the general ordering presented below, because judging journal prestige is a highly subjective process. Also, the actual quality of a journal probably changes much more quickly than people's perceptions of that journal do.
  • So please feel free to amend or modify the information on this page because the evolving nature of a wiki encourages people to provide input to more accurately reflect the field's point of view on these issues.
  • The top journal is:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP, from APA) (JPSP, from APA).
  • The first grouping/tier includes:
Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR, from SPSP)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB, from SPSP)
Journal of Personality (JP from Blackwell)
Journal of Research in Personality (JRP from Elsevier)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP, from SESP)
  • The second grouping/tier includes:
European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP)
British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP)
European Journal of Personality EJP (from InterScience)
Journal of Personality Assessment JPA (from LEA)
Personality and Individual Differences PAID (from ISSID)
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (GPIR)
Journal of Social Issues (JSI, from SPSSI)
  • The third grouping/tier includes:
Journal of Applied Social Psychology (JASP)
Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP)
Social Psychology Quarterly (Sociology journal)
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP, from SPSSI)
  • The fourth grouping/tier includes all other journals.


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