European Journal of Personality, Editors' Report
Mitja Back (Editor-in-Chief), Joanne M. Chung (Research Communications Editor), & Lisanne de Moor (Assistant to the Research Communications Editor)
University of Münster; Tilburg University; Utrecht University
Transparency has continued to be a prominent theme in psychology over the last few years, with sustained attention being given to conducting honest, open, and reproducible research. In addition to publishing high quality papers that take a broad perspective toward personality science, we have further incorporated the transparency of research into our journal guidelines and focus. We believe that we can make great strides in the field of personality by actively promoting research that embraces open science practices. It has been a little over two years since EJP has officially adopted a policy geared towards increasing open science practices, including using minimal standards of transparent reporting, and encouraging the use of preprint servers. We have seen an uptick in submissions to EJP that include the use of (pre)registration, and that provide open materials, data, and code. We are also very excited that EJP has officially implemented both streamlined review and Registered Reports in 2018.
In the past year, our editorial team has continued to do a great job, and we have been impressed by the breadth of research covered in recent issues of EJP. Some of the latest articles featured in EJP have focused on such diverging topics as cynicism and physical health (Stavrova & Ehlebracht, 2018), how to best assess dyadic personality congruence (Schönbrodt, Humberg, & Nestler, 2018), the content, dynamics, and outcomes of life goals across adulthood (Bühler, Weidmann, Nikitin, & Grob, 2019), self-regulation strategies during aversive activities in everyday life (Hennecke, Czikmantori, & Brandstätter, 2019), and the link between cultural change orientations and national indexes of economic, technological, social, and environmental change (Oreg & Sverdlik, 2018). Recently, in his target article in the European Personality Review issue, Chris Hopwood argued that by combining measurement of dynamic processes in basic psychology and models of dynamics processes in clinical psychology, we can help solve problems in both fields and move the broader field of personality forward (Hopwood, 2018). Personality scholars from around the world offered commentaries, with Jayawickreme and Zachry stating such a marriage between the fields is already occurring in the field of post-traumatic growth (Jayawickreme & Zachry, 2018), Wrzus detailing new parameters and constructs that need to be taken into account in studying dynamics (Wrzus, 2018), and Shiner highlighting that such a dynamic approach is in line with developmental research on personality pathology (Shiner, 2018), just to name a few.
Additionally, we have a special issue coming up on "Does age matter for personality psychology", edited by Cornelia Wrzus. This issue will be packed with high-quality contributions addressing when and why age does (or does not) moderate personality effects and processes affecting intrapersonal, interpersonal, or institutional outcomes? Two further special issues are already under way: (1) a joint special issue with the European Journal of Psychological Assessment on 'New approaches towards conceptualizing and assessing personality' edited by René Mõttus, David Condon, Dustin Wood, and Sacha Epskamp, and (2) a special issue on 'Behavioral Personality Science in the Age of Big Data' edited by John Rauthmann. Moreover, we have issued a call for papers on "Personality Dynamics in Applied Research" (deadline: May 31 2019) and a call for papers on the "Conceptualization and assessment of personality coherence and incoherence" (deadline: June 30 2019).
Some additional reasons for considering EJP as an outlet for your research are:
- EJP takes 25 days on average to make the first decision
- EJP's editorial team provides detailed, supportive, and constructive feedback
- EJP's impact factor is currently 3.49
- EJP has the highest Open Science transparency score in the field
- There is no word limit
- EJP has its own research communications team to help promote your work
Our communications team helps authors share their work and their perspectives. By conducting interviews and writing press releases on accepted articles, we boost the visibility of high-quality papers and make them available to a broader audience.
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