René Mõttus

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
116 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

René Mõttus is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, René Mõttus has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Clinical Psychology, 55 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 22 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in René Mõttus's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (66 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (31 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (23 papers). René Mõttus is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (66 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (31 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (23 papers). René Mõttus collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United Kingdom and United States. René Mõttus's co-authors include Sacha Epskamp, Lourens Waldorp, Denny Borsboom, Ian J. Deary, Jüri Allïk, Anu Realo, Giulio Costantini, Angélique O. J. Cramer, Marco Perugini and John M. Starr and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

René Mõttus

110 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Gaussian Graphical Model in Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Data

2018 651 citations Sacha Epskamp, Lourens Waldorp et al. profile →
State of the aRt personality research: A tutorial on network analysis of personality data in R

2014 629 citations Sacha Epskamp, Denny Borsboom et al. Journal of Research in Personality profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
René Mõttus Estonia	35	2.2k	1.9k	824	721	670	116	4.3k
Tamlin S. Conner New Zealand	33	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	505 0.8×	99	4.6k
Giulio Costantini Italy	22	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	691 0.8×	421 0.6×	1.0k 1.6×	58	3.5k
Thomas L. Rodebaugh United States	41	3.9k 1.8×	3.7k 1.9×	1.4k 1.7×	790 1.1×	1.4k 2.1×	166	6.8k
Elliot T. Berkman United States	39	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.8×	1.9k 2.8×	91	5.4k
Lena C. Quilty Canada	41	2.3k 1.0×	3.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.6×	735 1.0×	955 1.4×	178	6.9k
Peter Koval Australia	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	731 1.0×	681 1.0×	101	4.1k
Leonard J. Simms United States	32	1.8k 0.8×	4.1k 2.1×	798 1.0×	408 0.6×	456 0.7×	83	5.7k
Rogier Kievit United Kingdom	39	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	994 1.2×	344 0.5×	2.1k 3.1×	104	6.1k
Bertus F. Jeronimus Netherlands	24	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	637 0.8×	360 0.5×	408 0.6×	75	3.0k
Carmelo Vázquez Spain	41	2.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	622 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	166	6.0k

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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.

Wood, Dustin, et al.. (2024). Using multi-rater and test-retest data to detect overlap within and between psychological scales. Journal of Research in Personality. 113. 104530–104530. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Xiangling, et al.. (2024). The ways of the world? Cross-sample replicability of personality trait-life outcome associations. Journal of Research in Personality. 112. 104515–104515. 3 indexed citations

Realo, Anu, Jüri Allïk, Tōnu Esko, et al.. (2024). Self- and informant-reported personality traits and vaccination against COVID-19. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0287413–e0287413. 4 indexed citations

Bratko, Denis, Patrick Jern, Christian Kandler, et al.. (2024). Nuanced HEXACO: A Meta-Analysis of HEXACO Cross-Rater Agreement, Heritability, and Rank-Order Stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(12). 2425–2444. 4 indexed citations

Vainik, Uku, et al.. (2024). Personality profiles of 263 occupations.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 110(4). 481–511. 10 indexed citations

Vainik, Uku, et al.. (2024). A bottom-up approach dramatically increases the predictability of body mass from personality traits. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0295326–e0295326. 3 indexed citations

Speyer, Lydia Gabriela, et al.. (2023). Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle. Journal of Personality. 91(6). 1314–1325. 3 indexed citations

Hou, Xiangling, et al.. (2023). The longitudinal association between narcissism and problematic social networking sites use: The roles of two social comparison orientations. Addictive Behaviors. 145. 107786–107786. 7 indexed citations

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Mõttus, René, et al.. (2023). Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood. Journal of Personality. 91(6). 1395–1409. 4 indexed citations

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Vainik, Uku, et al.. (2022). Body mass is linked with a broad range of personality nuances, but especially those with behavioral content: A multi-sample exploration. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 3. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yumei, Kenn Konstabel, René Mõttus, & Sakari Lemola. (2022). Temporal associations between objectively measured physical activity and depressive symptoms: An experience sampling study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 920580–920580. 7 indexed citations

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Briley, Daniel A., Lucía Colodro‐Conde, Erik Lykke Mortensen, et al.. (2021). Two genetic analyses to elucidate causality between body mass index and personality. International Journal of Obesity. 45(10). 2244–2251. 9 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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Soutter, Alistair Raymond Bryce & René Mõttus. (2020). Big Five facets' associations with pro‐environmental attitudes and behaviors. Journal of Personality. 89(2). 203–215. 32 indexed citations

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Soutter, Alistair Raymond Bryce, Timothy C. Bates, & René Mõttus. (2020). Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 15(4). 913–941. 142 indexed citations

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Mõttus, René, Anu Realo, Uku Vainik, Jüri Allïk, & Tōnu Esko. (2017). Educational Attainment and Personality Are Genetically Intertwined. Psychological Science. 28(11). 1631–1639. 38 indexed citations

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Epskamp, Sacha, Lourens Waldorp, René Mõttus, & Denny Borsboom. (2016). Discovering Psychological Dynamics in Time-Series Data. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Mõttus, René, et al.. (2015). Childhood cognitive ability moderates later-life manifestation of type 2 diabetes genetic risk.. Health Psychology. 34(9). 915–919. 7 indexed citations

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Mõttus, René, Wendy Johnson, & Ian J. Deary. (2011). Personality traits in old age: Measurement and rank-order stability and some mean-level change.. Psychology and Aging. 27(1). 243–249. 80 indexed citations

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