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Researcher · National Institute on Aging · United States

Paul T. Costa

Paul T. Costa publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Personality Traits and Psychology, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology and Cognitive Abilities and Testing.

ORCID 0000-0003-4375-1712 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,886
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,341
of 1,627,098
Works
507
Citations
102k
Citations per work
200.7
h-index
146
i10-index 376Top 0.1% in Clinical Psychology
Paul T. Costa

What does Paul T. Costa research?

Paul T. Costa's work is mostly in Psychology (61%), Medicine (3%), Health Professions (3%).

Social Sciences: 309 works · 61.0% of their workPsychology: 309 works · 61.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 188 works · 37.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 55 works · 10.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 34 works · 6.7% of their workApplied Psychology: 32 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 169 works · 33.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 28 works · 5.6% of their workMedicine: 15 works · 3.0% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 15 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Professions: 13 works · 2.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 13 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul T. Costa507works
Health Sciences6%Social Sciences61%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology30961.0%
  2. Everything else16933.4%
    1. Medicine153.0%
    2. Health Professions132.6%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology37% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology7% of their works
  4. 4Applied Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul T. Costa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Personality Traits, Mental Health, Big Five, Self-Esteem, Psychopathology, Borderline Personality Disorder, DSM-5 and Meta-Analysis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Personality Traits3352 topics
  2. Mental Health2312 topics
  3. Big Five2061 topic
  4. Self-Esteem2061 topic
  5. Psychopathology1602 topics
  6. Borderline Personality Disorder1291 topic
  7. DSM-51291 topic
  8. Meta-Analysis822 topics
  9. Intelligence591 topic
  10. Working Memory591 topic
  11. Subjective Well-Being542 topics
  12. Psychological Testing431 topic
  13. Rorschach Comprehensive System431 topic
  14. Mental Disorders311 topic
  15. Network Analysis311 topic
  16. Aging291 topic
  17. Emotion291 topic
  18. Positive Psychology251 topic
  19. Well-being251 topic
  20. Cardiac Rehabilitation231 topic
  21. Depression231 topic

Where does Paul T. Costa work?

Paul T. Costa's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute on Aging, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul T. Costa have?

OpenAlex counts 507 works and 101,764 citations for Paul T. Costa, an h-index of 146, ranking #3,886 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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