Abstract: Based on the research articles of personality psychology retrieved from the database of SCI, the bibliometric analysis was conducted in specified aspects including amount of articles, countries, authors, subjects, journals and citations. The results showed that: personality psychology research had entered a rapid development stage in the last decade. With the increasing numbers of research papers, however, there was a quantity in disproportion with the quality since a relatively few personality psychology research articles were found in the academic journals with high impact factors. Compared with the international advanced level, the research level of personality psychology in China had a great gap to fill up. In addition, as a challenging topic, the research on relationship between personality and neuroscience also had important clinical value.

Key words: bibliometric analysis, personality psychology, SCI, Price law, Lotka law, Bradford law