Christopher J. Soto

12.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
73 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Soto is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Soto has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Clinical Psychology, 30 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Soto's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (43 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (22 papers) and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (22 papers). Christopher J. Soto is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (43 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (22 papers) and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (22 papers). Christopher J. Soto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Christopher J. Soto's co-authors include Oliver P. John, Laura P. Naumann, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling, Ariel Malka, Jennifer L. Tackett, Yphtach Lelkes, Christopher M. Napolitano, Brent W. Roberts and Daniel Danner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Soto

69 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2016 2010 2017 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.
    2008 1.7k citations Oliver P. John, Christopher J. Soto et al. profile →
  2. The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power.
    2016 1.2k citations Christopher J. Soto, Oliver P. John Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Age differences in personality traits from 10 to 65: Big Five domains and facets in a large cross-sectional sample.
    2010 747 citations Christopher J. Soto, Oliver P. John et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  4. Short and extra-short forms of the Big Five Inventory–2: The BFI-2-S and BFI-2-XS
    2017 522 citations Christopher J. Soto, Oliver P. John Journal of Research in Personality profile →
  5. How Replicable Are Links Between Personality Traits and Consequential Life Outcomes? The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication Project
    2019 266 citations Christopher J. Soto profile →
  6. An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI.
    2022 85 citations Christopher J. Soto, Christopher M. Napolitano et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher J. Soto United States 34 3.9k 3.0k 2.5k 1.8k 1.1k 73 7.8k
Beatrice Rammstedt Germany 35 2.5k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 936 0.9× 158 6.9k
Virgil Zeigler‐Hill United States 44 4.8k 1.2× 3.4k 1.1× 2.0k 0.8× 2.2k 1.2× 774 0.7× 255 8.1k
Maya Tamir Israel 45 2.7k 0.7× 4.1k 1.3× 2.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 1.5k 1.4× 120 7.3k
Boris Egloff Germany 46 3.1k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 2.9k 1.6× 1.2k 1.1× 140 8.0k
Matthias R. Mehl United States 44 2.7k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 2.1k 0.8× 2.6k 1.5× 1.2k 1.1× 145 9.5k
Özlem Ayduk United States 43 3.3k 0.8× 3.5k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 2.0k 1.9× 80 8.3k
Mitja D. Back Germany 46 4.5k 1.1× 3.0k 1.0× 2.5k 1.0× 2.9k 1.7× 916 0.9× 182 7.7k
Eshkol Rafaeli Israel 31 2.5k 0.6× 2.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 97 6.2k
Paul D. Trapnell Canada 30 3.6k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.3× 914 0.9× 44 7.3k
Wiebke Bleidorn United States 43 3.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.7× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 161 6.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rammstedt, Beatrice, Dorothée Behr, Matthias Bluemke, et al.. (2025). Going global: 39 language versions of the BFI-2-XS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 2 indexed citations
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Rozgonjuk, Dmitri, et al.. (2025). There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations. Journal of Research in Personality. 115. 104582–104582.
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Lignier, Baptiste, Jean‐Michel Petot, Pierre De Oliveira, et al.. (2025). Factor structure and psychometric properties of the French versions of the Big Five Inventory-2 Short (BFI-2-S) and Extra-Short (BFI-2-XS) Forms. L Encéphale. 51(6). 601–608.
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Feraco, Tommaso, Nathan W. Hudson, & Christopher J. Soto. (2025). Differences in change goals between personality traits and social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Personality and Individual Differences. 241. 113200–113200. 3 indexed citations
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Napolitano, Christopher M., Christopher J. Soto, Madison N. Sewell, Heejun Roy Yoon, & Brent W. Roberts. (2025). Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes. European Journal of Personality. 39(6). 897–910. 1 indexed citations
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Rammstedt, Beatrice, et al.. (2024). Adapting the BFI-2 Around the World – Coordinated Translation and Validation in Five Languages and Cultural Contexts. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 42(2). 99–111. 4 indexed citations
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Yoon, Heejun Roy, Brent W. Roberts, Madison N. Sewell, et al.. (2024). Examining SEB skills’ incremental validity over personality traits in predicting academic achievement. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0296484–e0296484. 9 indexed citations
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Lignier, Baptiste, Jean‐Michel Petot, Pierre De Oliveira, et al.. (2023). A reliable instrument for making use of an overly neglected source of information on personality: The French adaptation of the Big Five Inventory-2 (Bfi-2) informant-report form. L Encéphale. 50(4). 391–399. 1 indexed citations
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Lignier, Baptiste, Jean‐Michel Petot, Brice Canada, et al.. (2022). Factor structure, psychometric properties, and validity of the Big Five Inventory-2 facets: evidence from the French adaptation (BFI-2-Fr). Current Psychology. 42(30). 26099–26114. 11 indexed citations
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Soto, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). The Norwegian Adaptation of the Big Five Inventory-2. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 858920–858920. 7 indexed citations
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Soto, Christopher J., Christopher M. Napolitano, Madison N. Sewell, Heejun Roy Yoon, & Brent W. Roberts. (2022). An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(1). 192–222. 85 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oshio, Atsushi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yuki Ueno, et al.. (2022). A validation of the Japanese adaptation of the Big Five Inventory-2. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 924351–924351. 5 indexed citations
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Soto, Christopher J., et al.. (2021). Age differences in the personality hierarchy: A multi-sample replication study across the life span. Journal of Research in Personality. 93. 104121–104121. 3 indexed citations
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Vedel, Anna, et al.. (2020). Development and Validation of the Danish Big Five Inventory-2. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 37(1). 42–51. 25 indexed citations
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Malka, Ariel, Yphtach Lelkes, & Christopher J. Soto. (2017). Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test. British Journal of Political Science. 49(3). 1045–1069. 131 indexed citations
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Malka, Ariel, Christopher J. Soto, Michael Inzlicht, & Yphtach Lelkes. (2014). Do needs for security and certainty predict cultural and economic conservatism? A cross-national analysis.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 106(6). 1031–1051. 175 indexed citations
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Orth, Ulrich, Richard W. Robins, & Christopher J. Soto. (2010). Tracking the trajectory of shame, guilt, and pride across the life span.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99(6). 1061–1071. 171 indexed citations
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Soto, Christopher J., Oliver P. John, Samuel D. Gosling, & Jeff Potter. (2010). Age differences in personality traits from 10 to 65: Big Five domains and facets in a large cross-sectional sample.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100(2). 330–348. 747 indexed citations breakdown →
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Soto, Christopher J., Oliver P. John, Samuel D. Gosling, & Jeff Potter. (2008). The developmental psychometrics of big five self-reports: Acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 94(4). 718–737. 371 indexed citations

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