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Richard D. Goffin publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard D. Goffin sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 89 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Richard D. Goffin D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard D. Goffin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard D. Goffin is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology and Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on organizational behavior and human resource management, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including personality traits and psychology, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, social and intergroup psychology, deception detection and forensic psychology, psychometric methodologies and testing, employer branding and e-HRM, and multi-criteria decision making.

They have contributed to various academic publications, often collaborating with frequent co-authors such as Justin R. Feeney, Kabir N. Daljeet, Julie Aitken Schermer, Ian R. Gellatly, and Michelle Inness.

Richard D. Goffin's recent papers include the following:

  • Organizational Attachment, 2020, Journal of Personnel Psychology
  • Using the 16PF to Test the Differentiation of Personality by Intelligence Hypothesis, 2020, Journal of Intelligence
  • Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?, 2022, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Simulated job applicant test-taker reactions to rejection: comparing absolute and social-comparative feedback, 2023, Current Psychology
  • Relative and absolute self-ratings of work performance: Does social comparison lead to an enhanced thought process in self-evaluations?, 2021, International Journal of Selection and Assessment

Their research has been published predominantly in journals such as the Journal of Personnel Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Personality and Individual Differences, Current Psychology, and Journal of Intelligence.

Best Publications

  • Organizational commitment and job performance: It's the nature of the commitment that counts.

    John P. Meyer;Sampo V. Paunonen;Ian R. Gellatly;Richard D. Goffin

  • Family-centered caregiving and well-being of parents of children with disabilities:linking process with outcome

    Gillian King;Susanne King;Peter Rosenbaum;Richard Goffin

  • The use of personality measures in personnel selection: What does current research support?

    Mitchell G. Rothstein;Richard D. Goffin

  • CORRECTING THE 16PF FOR FAKING: EFFECTS ON CRITERION-RELATED VALIDITY AND INDIVIDUAL HIRING DECISIONS

    Neil D. Christiansen;Richard D. Goffin;Norman G. Johnston;Mitchell G. Rothstein

  • Measuring job interview anxiety: Beyond weak knees and sweaty palms.

    Julie McCarthy;Richard Goffin

  • A leadership self-efficacy taxonomy and its relation to effective leadership ☆

    David W. Anderson;Henryk T. Krajewski;Richard D. Goffin;Douglas N. Jackson

  • Personality testing and the assessment center : Incremental validity for managerial selection

    Richard D. Goffin;Mitchell G. Rothstein;Norman G. Johnston

  • Faking and personality assessment in personnel selection: Advancing models of faking.

    Richard D. Goffin;Allison C. Boyd

  • Correcting Personality Tests for Faking: A Review of Popular Personality Tests and an Initial Survey of Researchers

    Richard D. Goffin;Neil D. Christiansen

  • A five-factor versus six-factor model of personality structure

    Douglas N. Jackson;Sampo V. Paunonen;Maryann Fraboni;Richard D. Goffin

  • A multi‐rater assessment of organizational commitment: are self‐report measures biased?

    Richard D. Goffin;Ian R. Gellatly

  • Problems and Solutions in Human Assessment

    Richard D. Goffin;Edward Helmes

  • Assessing the adequacy of structural equation models: Golden rules and editorial policies

    Richard D. Goffin

  • Is It All Relative?: Comparative Judgments and the Possible Improvement of Self-Ratings and Ratings of Others

    Richard D. Goffin;James M. Olson

  • A Comparison of Two New Indices for the Assessment of Fit of Structural Equation Models

    Richard D. Goffin

  • Modeling MTMM data from additive and multiplicative covariance structures: An audit of construct validity concordance.

    Barbara M. Byrne;Richard D. Goffin

  • Selection Test Anxiety: Exploring Tension and Fear of Failure Across the Sexes in Simulated Selection Scenarios

    Julie M. McCarthy;Richard D. Goffin

  • Criterion validation of two approaches to performance appraisal: The behavioral observation scale and the relative percentile method

    Richard D. Goffin;Ian R. Gellatly;Sampo V. Paunonen;Douglas N. Jackson

  • Problems and solutions in human assessment : honoring Douglas N. Jackson at seventy

    Douglas Northrop Jackson;Richard D. Goffin;Edward Helmes

  • Taking advantage of social comparisons in performance appraisal: The relative percentile method

    Richard D. Goffin;R. Blake Jelley;Deborah M. Powell;Norman G. Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas N. Jackson
Douglas N. Jackson University of Western Ontario
Sampo V. Paunonen
Sampo V. Paunonen University of Western Ontario
Julie Aitken Schermer
Julie Aitken Schermer University of Western Ontario
John P. Meyer
John P. Meyer University of Western Ontario
Edward Helmes
Edward Helmes James Cook University
James M. Olson
James M. Olson University of Western Ontario
Brian J. Hoffman
Brian J. Hoffman University of Georgia
Barbara M. Byrne
Barbara M. Byrne University of Ottawa
Gillian King
Gillian King Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Graham J. Reid
Graham J. Reid University of Western Ontario

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