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; University of Toronto, Mississauga; Utrecht University
Another year has passed and we have seen some exciting changes and developments at the European Journal of Personality.
Transparency and openness have remained important themes for EJP. For example, the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science regarding Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) ranks EJP at the top of personality and social psychology journals. Moreover, the first Registered Report was recently accepted for publication in EJP (Vize & Lynam, 2020).
We are also impressed by the breadth and depth of personality research that has been published in EJP in the past year, as well as the authors behind the work. These articles covered topics such as life goals (Bühler, Weidmann, Nikitin, & Grob, 2019), post-apocalyptic and doomsday prepping (Fetterman, Rutjens, Landkammer, & Wilkowski, 2019), creativity and personality profile normativeness (Sutu, Serrano, Schultz, Jackson, & Damian, 2019), the integration of narcissism frameworks (Rogoza, Cieciuch, Strus, & Baran, 2019), and the appropriateness of personality indicators across the lifespan (Olaru, Schroeders, Wilhelm, & Ostendorf, 2019). Impressively, of all our publications in 2019, 49% (17 out of 35 papers) were based on Master or PhD theses!
Our readers may expect even more interesting work coming soon, with 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 a special issue on ‘Behavioral Personality Science in the Age of Big Data’ edited by John Rauthmann. We are also looking forward to the European Personality Review issue featuring a target article by Michael Ashton and Kibeom Lee titled “Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure—And Why those Objections Fail”. As always this target article will be accompanied by a larger number of comments and a rejoinder allowing for lively and fruitful discussion.
Finally, after four years of guiding the journal, Mitja Back will be stepping down from his position of Editor-in-Chief to welcome Dr. René Mõttus in October 2020. In his recent editorial (Back, 2020), Back looks back on his time as editor of EJP, and expresses some of his wishes for the future of the field of personality psychology. Mitja’s wishlist highlights theory generation, conceptualization, measurement, formats for publication, and communication with regards to personality research – and ends with the hope that EJP may remain at the forefront of these developments!
Some additional reasons for considering EJP as an outlet for your research:
- 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 3.91 (2-year IF) and 5.17 (5-year IF)
- 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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