John M. Digman

11.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
23 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

John M. Digman is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Digman has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Clinical Psychology, 4 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John M. Digman's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (5 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 papers) and Psychology of Development and Education (2 papers). John M. Digman is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (5 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 papers) and Psychology of Development and Education (2 papers). John M. Digman collaborates with scholars based in United States. John M. Digman's co-authors include Jillian Inouye, Lewis R. Goldberg, Raymond B. Cattell and W. Edgar Vinacke and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

John M. Digman

23 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model 1981 2026 1996 2011 1990 1997 1997 1981 1986 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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. Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model
    1990 4.5k citations John M. Digman Annual Review of Psychology profile →
  2. Higher-order factors of the Big Five.
    1997 1.0k citations John M. Digman Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Higher-order factors of the Big Five.
    1997 1.0k citations John M. Digman Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  4. Factors In The Natural Language Of Personality: Re-Analysis, Comparison, And Interpretation Of Six Major Studies
    1981 509 citations John M. Digman et al. Multivariate Behavioral Research profile →
  5. Further specification of the five robust factors of personality.
    1986 402 citations John M. Digman, Jillian Inouye Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers

John M. Digman
Lawrence A. Pervin United States
Sampo V. Paunonen Canada
Harrison G. Gough United States
Douglas N. Jackson Canada
Robert Hogan United States
Janet T. Spence United States
Jonathan M. Cheek United States
Ladd Wheeler United States
David C. Funder United States
J. Daryl United States
Lawrence A. Pervin United States
John M. Digman
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John M. Digman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Digman, John M.. (1997). Higher-order factors of the Big Five.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 73(6). 1246–1256. 1009 indexed citations breakdown →
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Digman, John M.. (1997). Higher-order factors of the Big Five.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 73(6). 1246–1256. 1005 indexed citations breakdown →
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Digman, John M., et al.. (1996). The structure of temperament and personality in Russian children.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 71(2). 341–351. 78 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1996). The curious history of the five-factor model.. 77 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Lewis R. & John M. Digman. (1994). Revealing structure in the data: Principles of exploratory factor analysis.. 58 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1994). Child personality and temperament: Does the five-factor model embrace both domains.. 38 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1990). Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model. Annual Review of Psychology. 41(1). 417–440. 4461 indexed citations breakdown →
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Digman, John M.. (1989). Five Robust Trait Dimensions: Development, Stability, and Utility. Journal of Personality. 57(2). 195–214. 347 indexed citations
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Digman, John M. & Jillian Inouye. (1986). Further specification of the five robust factors of personality.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 50(1). 116–123. 402 indexed citations breakdown →
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Digman, John M. & Jillian Inouye. (1986). Further specification of the five robust factors of personality.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 50(1). 116–123. 27 indexed citations
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Digman, John M., et al.. (1981). Factors In The Natural Language Of Personality: Re-Analysis, Comparison, And Interpretation Of Six Major Studies. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 16(2). 149–170. 509 indexed citations breakdown →
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Digman, John M.. (1967). THE PROCRUSTES CLASS OF FACTOR-ANALYTIC TRANSFORMATIONS. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 2(1). 89–94. 20 indexed citations
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Digman, John M., et al.. (1967). Factors in college attendance.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 51(3). 247–253. 14 indexed citations
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Cattell, Raymond B. & John M. Digman. (1964). A theory of the structure of perturbations in observer ratings and questionnaire data in personality research. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 9(4). 341–358. 23 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1963). Principal Dimensions of Child Personality as Inferred from Teachers' Judgments. Child Development. 34(1). 43–43. 67 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1963). PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS OF CHILD PERSONALITY AS INFERRED FROM TEACHERS'JUDGMENTS1. Child Development. 34(1). 43–60. 3 indexed citations
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Digman, John M., et al.. (1961). An Interpretation of an Election by Means of Obverse Factor Analysis. The Journal of Social Psychology. 53(2). 183–194. 2 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1959). Growth of a motor skill as a function of distribution of practice.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 57(5). 310–316. 30 indexed citations
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Digman, John M.. (1956). Performance under optimal practice conditions following three degrees of massing of early practice.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 52(3). 189–193. 4 indexed citations
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Vinacke, W. Edgar, et al.. (1955). Flexibility and rigidity in a variety of problem situations.. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology. 50(2). 211–216. 7 indexed citations

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