Personality and Individual Differences
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Discipline | Personality psychology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper |
Publication details | |
History | 1980–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | 16/year |
3.950 (2021) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Pers. Individ. Differ. |
NLM | Pers Individ Dif |
Indexing | |
CODEN | PEIDD9 |
ISSN | 0191-8869 |
LCCN | 85647765 |
OCLC no. | 04965018 |
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Personality and Individual Differences is a peer-reviewed academic journal published 16 times per year by Elsevier. It was established in 1980 by Pergamon Press and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. The editors-in-chief are Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper. Previous editors include Donald H. Saklofske, Philip A. Vernon, Gísli Guðjónsson and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. The founding editor was Hans Jürgen Eysenck. The journal covers research about the structure of personality and other forms of individual differences, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- ASSIA
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- PASCAL
- PsycINFO
- PsycLIT
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Citation Index
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.951.[1]
Retraction
On 17 June 2020 Elsevier announced it was retracting a 2012 article by J. Philippe Rushton and Donald Templer.[2] The article falsely claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Personality and Individual Differences". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2022.
- ^ "Personality and Individual Differences Retracts Rushton and Templer Article". Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ "Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist". 17 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.