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Journal of Personnel Psychology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ15709989 ↗
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The Journal of Personnel Psychology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering personnel psychology. It was established in 2002 and is published by Hogrefe. The editor-in-chief is Deborah Powell (University of Guelph).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, PsycINFO, Scopus, and IBZ. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.4.

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The public source identifies “Journal of Personnel Psychology” as journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Journal, Personnel and Psychology.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Journal, Personnel and Psychology providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Personnel Psychology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.