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Personality and Individual Differences
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<h2 id="abstracting-and-indexing">Abstracting and indexing</h2> <p>The journal is abstracted and indexed in: </p> <ul><li>ASSIA</li> <li><a href="/facts/Current_Contents/YSr0dzjj">Current Contents</a>/Social & Behavioral Sciences</li> <li><a href="/facts/PASCAL_(database)/gpzYagfa">PASCAL</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/PsycINFO/W1CTMf7F">PsycINFO</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/PsycLIT/nHQIgzVw">PsycLIT</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Scopus/4U5YtGXd">Scopus</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Social_Sciences_Citation_Index/mb4Mf3s6">Social Sciences Citation Index</a></li></ul> <p>According to the <i><a href="/facts/Journal_Citation_Reports/H13uyJqD">Journal Citation Reports</a></i>, the journal has a 2021 <a href="/facts/Impact_factor/CamGH5MQ">impact factor</a> of 3.951.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notable-papers">Notable papers</h2> <p>In 1985 the journal published "A revised version of the psychoticism scale", which described a revised version of the <a href="/facts/Eysenck_Personality_Questionnaire/tU8xRIHp">Eysenck Personality Questionnaire</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> This paper has been cited over 1600 times.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="retractions">Retractions</h2> <p>On 17 June 2020 Elsevier announced it was retracting a 2012 article by <a href="/facts/J._Philippe_Rushton/e9CLGoaD">J. Philippe Rushton</a> and <a href="/facts/Donald_Templer/lJ2jEIws">Donald Templer</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The article falsely claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/2010_conservatism-psychoticism_correlation_error/SnUvFGGe">2010 conservatism-psychoticism correlation error</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/paid">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Personality and Individual Differences". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2022. <a href="/wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Eysenck, Sybil B. G.; Eysenck, Hans Jürgen; Barrett, Paul (1985). "A revised version of the psychoticism scale" (PDF). Personality and Individual Differences. 6 (1): 21–29. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.463.9614. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(85)90026-1. <a href="/wiki/Sybil_B._G._Eysenck" target="_blank">/wiki/Sybil_B._G._Eysenck</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>citations of Eysenck, Eysenck, and Barrett 1985 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=A+revised+version+of+the+psychoticism+scale&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=A+revised+version+of+the+psychoticism+scale&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Personality and Individual Differences Retracts Rushton and Templer Article". Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200622043414/www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/announcements/rushton-and-templer-article" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200622043414/www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/announcements/rushton-and-templer-article</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist". 17 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020. <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/17/elsevier-journal-to-retract-2012-paper-widely-derided-as-racist/" target="_blank">https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/17/elsevier-journal-to-retract-2012-paper-widely-derided-as-racist/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>