OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Intelligence is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults	83
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	59
Editorial Board	33
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	32
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	28
Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores	26
Editorial Board	24
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	24
The relation between habituation and intelligence beyond infancy: A systematic literature review	22
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	21
Editorial Board	19
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	18
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	17
From principles to progress: One year of renewal at intelligence	16
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	16
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective	16
Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project	15
Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive perspective	15
Cultural intelligence in context: Examining the generalizability of a cultural intelligence measure across three countries	15
Low validity of lower ability test scores can mimic the Dunning-Kruger effect	15
Creative self-beliefs and critical thinking disposition: A network analysis approach	14
Form perception speed is critical for the relationship between non-verbal number sense and arithmetic fluency	14
Editorial Board	14
An intelligent mind in a healthy body? Predicting health by cognitive ability in a large European sample	13
New methods, persistent issues, and one solution: Gene-environment interaction studies of childhood cognitive development	12

Predicting cross-national sex differences in large-scale assessments of students' reading literacy, mathematics, and science achievement: Evidence from PIRLS and TIMSS	12
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment	12
Editorial Board	12
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How accurately does self-reported intelligence reflect psychometrically measured IQ?	11
The biological basis of intelligence: Benchmark findings	10
g: Formative, reflective, or both?	10
Carbon is to life as g is to _____: A review of the contributions to the special issue on specific abilities in intelligence	9
Heritability of metacognitive judgement of intelligence: A twin study on the Dunning-Kruger effect	9
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	9
Evidence of interrelated cognitive-like capabilities in large language models: Indications of artificial general intelligence or achievement?	9
Individual differences in spatial navigation and working memory	8
fMRI functional connectivity is a better predictor of general intelligence than cortical morphometric features and ICA parcellation order affects predictive performance	8
Editorial Board	8
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What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	8
How socioeconomic status affects a child's education – Investigating objective and subjective factors involved in shaping educational success in Germany	8
An investigation into differences in general intelligence and coaches' subjective assessment of players' decision-making skills across different playing positions in EPPP association football academie	8
Writing hand preference and cognitive function across the childhood years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study	7
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development	7
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	7
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes	7
Empathy in subjects with high intellectual potential (HIP): Rethinking stereotypes through a multidimensional and developmental review	7
A synthetic theory to integrate and explain the causes of the Flynn effect: The Parental Executive Model	7
Functional brain networks involved in the Raven's standard progressive matrices task and their relation to theories of fluid intelligence	7
Corrigendum to ‘Creative self-beliefs and critical thinking disposition: A network analysis approach’ [Intelligence 116 (2026) 102021]	7
No evidence for reversed publication bias in research on intelligence and school grades: Funnel plot asymmetry as an artifact of conditional standard errors	6
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits	6
Processing speed mediates the development of tech tilt and academic tilt in adolescence	6
On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting	6
Looking for transfer in all the wrong places: How intellectual abilities can be enhanced through diverse experience among older adults	5
Editorial Board	5
Joint modeling of cognitive aging and survival: Evaluation of birth cohort differences	5
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	5
Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification	5
Cognitive ability and creativity: Typology contributions and a meta-analytic review	5
Shared reading aloud fosters intelligence: Three cluster-randomized control trials in elementary and middle school	5
Analytic thinking outruns fluid reasoning in explaining rejection of pseudoscience, paranormal, and conspiracist beliefs	5
Don't waste your time measuring intelligence: Further evidence for the validity of a three-minute speeded reasoning test	5
Exploring exceptional minds: Political orientations of gifted adults	5
On the relationships between processing speed, intra-subject variability, working memory, and fluid intelligence – A cross-sectional study	5
What should replicate in intelligence research? Setting the bar for a cumulative science	5
The association between intelligence and financial literacy: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	5
The moderating effect of the DMN connectivity on the correlation between online creativity performances in single- and paired-player modes	5
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	5
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect: Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population	5
Editorial Board	5
Intelligence testing across cultures: When scores stop meaning the same thing	4
General cognitive ability, as assessed by self-reported ACT scores, is associated with reduced emotional responding: Evidence from a Dynamic Affect Reactivity Task	4

Reciprocal effects between information and communication technology literacy and conventional literacies	4
All (tilt) models are wrong, but some are useful: A reply to critique of tilt	4
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	4
The other half of intelligence: An obstacle-racecourse performance-based model of intelligence in action	4
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	4
Measurement invariance of Bildiren non-verbal cognitive ability (BNV) test across gender, grade level, age, and ethnicity	4
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	4
Exploring the presence of a Flynn effect in children with developmental language disorder: A meta-analysis	4
Latin square tasks: A multi-study evaluation	4
Comment on “The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated”	4
Cloze test performance and cognitive abilities: A comprehensive meta-analysis	4
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	4
Seventy years, 1000 samples, and 300,000 SPM scores: A new meta-analysis of Flynn effect patterns	3
The role of learning in complex problem solving using MicroDYN	3
Ongoing trends of human intelligence	3
Inconsistent Flynn effect patterns may be due to a decreasing positive manifold: Cohort-based measurement-invariant IQ test score changes from 2005 to 2024	3
Lack of measurement invariance in mental health assessment across intelligence levels: Investigation into nonlinearity reveals a broader issue	3
Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes	3
Editorial Board	3
Cognitive ability has powerful, widespread and robust effects on social stratification: Evidence from the 1979 and 1997 US National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth	3
Differentiation of general and specific abilities in intelligence. A bifactor study of age and gender differentiation in 8- to 19-year-olds	3
Are Piagetian scales just intelligence tests?	3
Tilt increases at higher ability levels: Support for differentiation theories	3
The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	3
Investigating retest effects in cognitive ability tests: An operation-specific approach	2
Editorial Board	2
Varieties of divergent thinking: A network analysis of Guilford, Merriefield and Cox (1961)	2
Content meta-analysis of a racial hereditarian research “bibliography” reveals minimal support for Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's model of “scientific racism”	2
Editorial Board	2
The threshold for teratogenic effects on child intelligence of prenatal exposure to phenylalanine	2
Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe	2
The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis	2
Bayesian networks to evaluate and test the Raven’s colored progressive matrices	2
Flynn effects are biased by differential item functioning over time: A test using overlapping items in Wechsler scales	2
Relative contributions of g and basic domain-specific mathematics skills to complex mathematics competencies	2
Putting the Flynn effect under the microscope: Item-level patterns in NLSYC PIAT-math scores, 1986–2004	2
Inconclusive evidence for an increasing effect of maternal supportiveness on childhood intelligence in Dunkel et al. (2023): A simulated reanalysis	2
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Reevaluating the Dunning-Kruger effect: A response to and replication of	2
The Short And Free Reasoning Ability assessmeNt (SAFRAN): Multidimensional, publicly available and only 15 minutes testing time	2
Educational choice has greater effects on sex ratios of college STEM majors than has the greater male variance in general intelligence (g)	2
Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018)	2