Personality and Mental Health

Aims & Scope

Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour aims to lead and shape the international field in this rapidly expanding area, uniting three distinct literatures: DSM-5/ICD-11 defined personality disorders, psychopathy and offending behaviour.

Through its multi-disciplinary and service orientated approach, Personality and Mental Health provides a peer-reviewed, authoritative resource for researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in the areas of personality and mental health.

We encourage exchange amongst researchers, as well as debate amongst practitioners and policy makers in this high-profile area.

Personality and Mental Health provides an innovative platform for the publication of new approaches to treatment, assessment and service delivery.

Personality and Mental Health encourages the following submissions: • Reviews and original research articles, including rapid communications • Clinical case studies, with commentaries by, for example, lawyers, ethicists, service users, etc. • Ideas for relevant special issues • Commentaries We also invite research in associated areas to include service and organisational evaluation and development, law, policy and ethics, research methodology, research practice and dissemination, and education and training.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.7
2024	2.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.095

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	35

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4165

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	267

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

  Citation: 250

  Authors: Christopher J., Roman, Robert F., David, Thomas A., Robert R., Emily B., Bo, R., Mark A., Marina A., Michael, David C., Christopher, Barbara, Filip, Anna R., Nicholas R., John F., Miriam K., Kelsie T., Michael P., Masha Y., Daniel, W., Mark R., Donald R., Kristian E., Joshua D., Leslie C., Stephanie N., J., Christopher J., Aaron L., Camilo, Douglas B., Martin, Tim, Jennifer L., Katherine M., Timothy J., David D., Irwin D., Monika A., Mark H., Aidan G.C., Mathew M., David H., Johannes

• The rationale for the reclassification of personality disorder in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11)

  Citation: 187

  Authors: Peter, Mike, Roger, Roger, Alireza, Andrea, Youl‐Ri, Nestor, Dusica, David, Michaela, Lee Anna, Geoffrey M.

• The Level of Personality Functioning Scale‐Brief Form 2.0: Update of a brief instrument for assessing level of personality functioning

  Citation: 187

  Authors: Laura C., Joost, Jan H.

• Personality disorder prevalence in psychiatric outpatients: A systematic literature review

  Citation: 136

  Authors: Helen, Paul F., Joe

• Suicide attempts and self‐injurious behaviours in adolescent and adult patients with borderline personality disorder

  Citation: 133

  Authors: Marianne, Irene Alvarez, Christina M., Garrett M., Blaise A., Mary C.

• Development and initial evaluation of the ICD‐11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS‐ICD‐11

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Bo, Tiffany A., Roger T., Giles, Erik, Martin

• Reflective function as a mediator between childhood adversity, personality disorder and symptom distress

  Citation: 95

  Authors: Marco, Peter

• Why borderline personality disorder is neither borderline nor a personality disorder

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Peter

• A framework for treating DSM‐5 alternative model for personality disorder features

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Christopher J.

• Validating the proposed ICD‐11 domains

  Citation: 84

  Authors: Roger T., John, Peter, Janet, Peter R.

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