Is there any need for German language journals on psychological assessment, personality, and individual differences?

Leutner (1999) analyzed the publication habits of German spoken authors. Tw o tendencies showed up: (1) Articles on instruments and methods of psycholo gical assessment are preferably published in German language journals, arti cles on basic research dealing with personality and individual differences are preferably published in English language journals. (2) The authors tend to publish either in German or in English, only a few authors use to publi sh in both languages. These tendencies demonstrate a strong need for suffic ient German language publication area in the field of applied assessment in struments and methods, but there seems to be a limited need for German lang uage publication area for basic research in the field of personality and in dividual differences: Obviously, empirical studies on German language psych ological assessment instruments and methods are of interest for a German la nguage audience but not for an international audience. Notably, this need f or a sufficient German language publication area dan be satisfied with jour nals which have a - for German journals - respectable impact factor: for "D iagnostica", for example, ISI calculated a value of 0.47 for 1997. An analy sis of articles published in "Diagnstica" in 1997 and 1998 entails that the Journal continues to be a forum of diagnostic and assessment questions in all fields of psychology.