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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	44
Cognitive characteristics of intellectually gifted children with a diagnosis of ADHD	34
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	31
Age-related nuances in knowledge assessment	22
No spatial advantage in adolescent hockey players? Exploring measure specificity and masked effects	20
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect: Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population	20
The genetics of specific cognitive abilities	20
The Flynn effect in Germanophone preschoolers (1996–2018): Small effects, erratic directions, and questionable interpretations	19
The frustrated narcissist: Intelligence may reduce the chances of developing narcissistic rivalry	18
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	17
Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018)	17
Still no Dunning-Kruger effect: A reply to Hiller	17
Continuous time models support the reciprocal relations between academic achievement and fluid intelligence over the course of a school year	17
Carbon is to life as g is to _____: A review of the contributions to the special issue on specific abilities in intelligence	17
Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic	16
The uniformity of stereotype threat: Analyzing the moderating effects of premeasured performance	15
General or specific abilities? Evidence from 33 countries participating in the PISA assessments	15
To predict the future, consider the past: Revisiting Carroll (1993) as a guide to the future of intelligence research	14
Don't waste your time measuring intelligence: Further evidence for the validity of a three-minute speeded reasoning test	14
Using macroevolutionary patterns to distinguish primary from secondary cognitive modules in primate cross-species performance data on five cognitive ability measures	14
Rotational complexity in mental rotation tests: Cognitive processes in tasks requiring mental rotation around cardinal and skewed rotation axes	14
Editorial Board	13
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	12
Attitude toward numbers: A better predictor of financial literacy and intelligence than need for cognition	12
The future of intelligence: The central meaning-making unit of intelligence in the mind, the brain, and artificial intelligence	11

A valid evaluation of the theory of multiple intelligences is not yet possible: Problems of methodological quality for intervention studies	11
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	11
The relation between working memory and mathematics performance among students in math-intensive STEM programs	11
The threshold for teratogenic effects on child intelligence of prenatal exposure to phenylalanine	10
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	10
IQ in adolescence and cognition over 50 years later: The mediating role of adult personality	9
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	9
Is there a “g-neuron”? Establishing a systematic link between general intelligence (g) and the von Economo neuron	9
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	9
Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism	9
How much intelligence is there in artificial intelligence? A 2020 update	9
Editorial Board	9
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	8
Specific cognitive aptitudes and gifted samples	8
Editorial Board	8
General cognitive ability and pericortical contrast	8
Bilingualism and intelligence in children exposed to poverty environments: A Raven's error pattern analysis using a generalized propensity score method	8
Distributions of academic math-verbal tilt and overall academic skill of students specializing in different fields: A study of 1.6 million graduate record examination test takers	8
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	8
High individual alpha frequency brains run fast, but it does not make them smart	8
Educational choice has greater effects on sex ratios of college STEM majors than has the greater male variance in general intelligence (g)	8
Using a multi-strategy eye-tracking psychometric model to measure intelligence and identify cognitive strategy in Raven's advanced progressive matrices	8
Latin square tasks: A multi-study evaluation	7
Polygenic influences associated with adolescent cognitive skills	7
Predicting fluid intelligence in adolescence from structural MRI with deep learning methods	7
Relative contributions of g and basic domain-specific mathematics skills to complex mathematics competencies	7
Editorial Board	7
The pursuit of equity and excellence: Advanced placement exam participation and performance by sex and by race/ethnicity, 1996–2022	7
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	7
Ian Deary and Robert Sternberg answer five self-inflicted questions about human intelligence	7
Temporal stability of specific ability scores and intelligence profiles in high ability students	7
Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification	6
How to solve number series items: Can watching video tutorials increase test scores?	6
An endless cycle of ignorance is the consequence of not offering classes on IQ and human intelligence	6
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	6
Common genetic and environmental effects on cognitive ability, conscientiousness, self-perceived abilities, and school performance	6
Attention control and process overlap theory: Searching for cognitive processes underpinning the positive manifold	6
Content meta-analysis of a racial hereditarian research “bibliography” reveals minimal support for Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's model of “scientific racism”	6
fMRI functional connectivity is a better predictor of general intelligence than cortical morphometric features and ICA parcellation order affects predictive performance	6
Editorial Board	6
On the relationships between processing speed, intra-subject variability, working memory, and fluid intelligence – A cross-sectional study	6
Alpha oscillatory evidence for shared underlying mechanisms of creativity and fluid intelligence above and beyond working memory-related activity	5
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	5
Testing the structure of human cognitive ability using evidence obtained from the impact of brain lesions over abilities	5
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	5
Normative responding on cognitive bias tasks: Some evidence for a weak rationality factor that is mostly explained by numeracy and actively open-minded thinking	5
Evolving networks of human intelligence	5
The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics	5
Recent developments, current challenges, and future directions in electrophysiological approaches to studying intelligence	4
Editorial Board	4

Unraveling the nexus: Culture, cognitive competence, and economic performance across 86 nations (2000–2018)	4
Not by g alone: The benefits of a college education among individuals with low levels of general cognitive ability	4
Using automatic item generation to construct scheduling problems measuring planning ability	4
Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project	4
A randomness perspective on intelligence processes	4
All (tilt) models are wrong, but some are useful: A reply to critique of tilt	3
Intercohort upsurge of cognitive ability among the general population in China: Evaluating a Flynn effect	3
Editorial Board	3
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	3
A special contribution from spatial ability to math word problem solving: Evidence from structural equation modelling and network analysis	3
The cross-cultural generalizability of cognitive ability measures: A systematic literature review.	3
Domain specific traits predict achievement in music and multipotentiality	3
Signs of a Flynn effect in rodents? Secular differentiation of the manifold of general cognitive ability in laboratory mice (Mus musculus) and Norwegian rats (Rattus norvegicus) over a century—Results	3
Editorial Board	3
Comment on “The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated”	3
Editorial Board	3
The possible role of field independence/dependence on developmental sex differences in general intelligence	3
Cognitive ability and personality: Testing broad to nuanced associations with a smartphone app	3
No evidence for an effect of a working memory training program on white matter microstructure	3
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective	3
Fluid intelligence in refugee children. A cross-sectional study of potential risk and resilience factors among Syrian refugee children and their parents	3
General cognitive ability, as assessed by self-reported ACT scores, is associated with reduced emotional responding: Evidence from a Dynamic Affect Reactivity Task	3
The secular trend of intelligence test scores in the present century: The Danish experience	3
The relation between science achievement and general cognitive abilities in large-scale assessments	3
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	3
Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive perspective	3
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	3
Strategy Transfer on Fluid Reasoning Tasks	2
Education, intelligence, placement, and selection: A discussion of paradoxes and fairness	2
Network models of cognitive abilities in younger and older adults	2
EEG oscillatory evidence for the temporal dynamics of divergent and convergent thinking in the verbal knowledge domain	2
Decoding gender differences: Intellectual profiles of children with specific learning disabilities	2
Are Piagetian scales just intelligence tests?	2
(No) Trade-off between numeracy and verbal reasoning development: PISA evidence from Italy's academic tracking	2
DNA and IQ: Big deal or much ado about nothing? – A meta-analysis	2
Knowledge, attention, and psychomotor ability: A latent variable approach to understanding individual differences in simulated work performance	2
On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting	2
The future of intelligence: The role of specific abilities	2
Stability of mental abilities and physical growth from 6 months to 65 years: Findings from the Zurich Longitudinal Studies	2
Editorial Board	2
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development	2