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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	96
Editorial Board	33
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	27
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	26
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	24
Editorial Board	24
The relation between habituation and intelligence beyond infancy: A systematic literature review	22
Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults	21
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	19
Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores	18
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	17
Editorial Board	17
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	17
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	17
Low validity of lower ability test scores can mimic the Dunning-Kruger effect	16
Creative self-beliefs and critical thinking disposition: A network analysis approach	16
Cultural intelligence in context: Examining the generalizability of a cultural intelligence measure across three countries	16
From principles to progress: One year of renewal at intelligence	15
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective	14
Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project	14
Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive perspective	13
Editorial Board	13
Predicting cross-national sex differences in large-scale assessments of students' reading literacy, mathematics, and science achievement: Evidence from PIRLS and TIMSS	12
Editorial Board	12
Form perception speed is critical for the relationship between non-verbal number sense and arithmetic fluency	12

New methods, persistent issues, and one solution: Gene-environment interaction studies of childhood cognitive development	12
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment	12
Editorial Board	11
g: Formative, reflective, or both?	11
Editorial Board	11
How accurately does self-reported intelligence reflect psychometrically measured IQ?	11
Evidence of interrelated cognitive-like capabilities in large language models: Indications of artificial general intelligence or achievement?	10
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	10
Heritability of metacognitive judgement of intelligence: A twin study on the Dunning-Kruger effect	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
The growing role of individual differences: A cross-National Study of achievement variance reallocation from grade 4 to 8	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
How socioeconomic status affects a child's education – Investigating objective and subjective factors involved in shaping educational success in Germany	8
Editorial Board	8
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	8
Carbon is to life as g is to _____: A review of the contributions to the special issue on specific abilities in intelligence	8
Editorial Board	8
Construct validity and intelligence differences: The murder board, the magic number, and the breadcrumb trail	8
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	8
Emotional intelligence in gifted and non-gifted individuals: A systematic review with meta-analysis	7
Writing hand preference and cognitive function across the childhood years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study	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	7
Functional brain networks involved in the Raven's standard progressive matrices task and their relation to theories of fluid intelligence	6
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes	6
Cognitive ability and creativity: Typology contributions and a meta-analytic review	6
Empathy in subjects with high intellectual potential (HIP): Rethinking stereotypes through a multidimensional and developmental review	6
Processing speed mediates the development of tech tilt and academic tilt in adolescence	6
A synthetic theory to integrate and explain the causes of the Flynn effect: The Parental Executive Model	6
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development	6
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits	6
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	5
Shared reading aloud fosters intelligence: Three cluster-randomized control trials in elementary and middle school	5
Looking for transfer in all the wrong places: How intellectual abilities can be enhanced through diverse experience among older adults	5
Joint modeling of cognitive aging and survival: Evaluation of birth cohort differences	5
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect: Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population	5
Don't waste your time measuring intelligence: Further evidence for the validity of a three-minute speeded reasoning test	5
The other half of intelligence: An obstacle-racecourse performance-based model of intelligence in action	5
Editorial Board	5
Analytic thinking outruns fluid reasoning in explaining rejection of pseudoscience, paranormal, and conspiracist beliefs	5
Editorial Board	5
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	5
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	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
Exploring exceptional minds: Political orientations of gifted adults	5
Reconceptualizing consciousness as an intelligence: A five-level model of access consciousness	5
Intelligence testing across cultures: When scores stop meaning the same thing	4

Latin square tasks: A multi-study evaluation	4
Reciprocal effects between information and communication technology literacy and conventional literacies	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
Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification	4
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	4
On the relationships between processing speed, intra-subject variability, working memory, and fluid intelligence – A cross-sectional study	4
Comment on “The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated”	4
Measurement invariance of Bildiren non-verbal cognitive ability (BNV) test across gender, grade level, age, and ethnicity	4
Exploring the presence of a Flynn effect in children with developmental language disorder: A meta-analysis	4
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	4
All (tilt) models are wrong, but some are useful: A reply to critique of tilt	4
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	4
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Are Piagetian scales just intelligence tests?	3
Developing BOLT — A matrix test using Boolean operations to assess logical thinking	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
Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes	3
The role of learning in complex problem solving using MicroDYN	3
Tilt increases at higher ability levels: Support for differentiation theories	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
Cloze test performance and cognitive abilities: A comprehensive meta-analysis	3
Exploring the dimensions of deployment of intelligence: Development and validation of transformational giftedness scale	3
Ongoing trends of human intelligence	3
The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	3
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
Reevaluating the Dunning-Kruger effect: A response to and replication of	2
The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis	2
The Short And Free Reasoning Ability assessmeNt (SAFRAN): Multidimensional, publicly available and only 15 minutes testing time	2
Investigating retest effects in cognitive ability tests: An operation-specific approach	2
Varieties of divergent thinking: A network analysis of Guilford, Merriefield and Cox (1961)	2
Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe	2
Seventy years, 1000 samples, and 300,000 SPM scores: A new meta-analysis of Flynn effect patterns	2
Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018)	2
Inconclusive evidence for an increasing effect of maternal supportiveness on childhood intelligence in Dunkel et al. (2023): A simulated reanalysis	2
Lack of measurement invariance in mental health assessment across intelligence levels: Investigation into nonlinearity reveals a broader issue	2
Differentiation of general and specific abilities in intelligence. A bifactor study of age and gender differentiation in 8- to 19-year-olds	2
Putting the Flynn effect under the microscope: Item-level patterns in NLSYC PIAT-math scores, 1986–2004	2