Personality Science, Editor's Report

John Rauthmann (Editor-in-Chief)

The European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) is proud to share the exciting news that it is launching a new journal (alongside the existing European Journal of Personality) this year: Personality Science (PS).

PS will be online-only, full open-access, with no article processing charges for authors, and dedicated to open and good science practices (e.g., offering Registered Reports with in-principle acceptances). All of this is possible because it will be published under the PsychOpen GOLD program of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID).

PS is dedicated to topical breadth and diversity and aims at bringing together researchers interested in personality science (broadly construed). It will also position itself as a pioneer in implementing new standards of rigorous and open science. The journal’s vision encompasses three goals related to expanding the field of personality psychology: (1) being more multidisciplinary in scope than comparable journals (expansion of the field); (2) including papers that concern how personality science can inform public interest and applied practice (expansion to the public); and (3) seeking high-quality publications from authors around the globe (expansion in geography).

John Rauthmann as editor-in-chief of PS will be joined by a stellar editorial team of 3 senior consultant members (Mitja Back, Sam Gosling, Verónica Benet-Martínez), 3 methodological consultant members (Daniel Lakens, Daniel Leising, Felix Schönbrodt), and 12 associate editors (Anna Baumert, Ryan Hong, Martina Hřebíčková, Lauren Human, Claudio Hutz, Markus Jokela, Sumaya Laher, Carolyn MacCann, Atsushi Oshio, Marco Perugini, Ryne Sherman, Michelle Yik).

More information on PS can be found at https://eapp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PS_leaflet.pdf/, which will be periodically updated. We are currently working hard on creating the journal’s website and the online submission system. Our goal is to launch the journal officially before the end of this year. We will let you know about important developments via EAPP’s Twitter channel (@personalityEAPP).

We are looking forward to your submissions to PS!