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

Article	Citations
Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults	76
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	62
Editorial Board	59
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	52
Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores	29
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	28
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	28
Rotational complexity in mental rotation tests: Cognitive processes in tasks requiring mental rotation around cardinal and skewed rotation axes	25
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	25
Editorial Board	23
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	20
Not by g alone: The benefits of a college education among individuals with low levels of general cognitive ability	19
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	19
Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive perspective	18
A randomness perspective on intelligence processes	18
Low validity of lower ability test scores can mimic the Dunning-Kruger effect	18
The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics	17
From principles to progress: One year of renewal at intelligence	17
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	16
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	16
Editorial Board	16
Form perception speed is critical for the relationship between non-verbal number sense and arithmetic fluency	15
An intelligent mind in a healthy body? Predicting health by cognitive ability in a large European sample	15
Predicting cross-national sex differences in large-scale assessments of students' reading literacy, mathematics, and science achievement: Evidence from PIRLS and TIMSS	14

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment	14
The factor structure of executive function in childhood and adolescence	14
Change and stability in the association of parents' education with children's intelligence	13
How accurately does self-reported intelligence reflect psychometrically measured IQ?	13
New methods, persistent issues, and one solution: Gene-environment interaction studies of childhood cognitive development	13
Editorial Board	13
The interplay between domain-specific knowledge and selected investment traits across the life span	12
Editorial Board	12
The ups and downs of intelligence: The co-occurrence model and its associated research program	12
g: Formative, reflective, or both?	12
The biological basis of intelligence: Benchmark findings	12
Editorial Board	12
Evidence of interrelated cognitive-like capabilities in large language models: Indications of artificial general intelligence or achievement?	11
Heritability of metacognitive judgement of intelligence: A twin study on the Dunning-Kruger effect	11
How socioeconomic status affects a child's education – Investigating objective and subjective factors involved in shaping educational success in Germany	11
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	11
Individual differences in spatial navigation and working memory	11
Editorial Board	10
Carbon is to life as g is to _____: A review of the contributions to the special issue on specific abilities in intelligence	10
Editorial Board	9
Specific cognitive aptitudes and gifted samples	9
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	9
fMRI functional connectivity is a better predictor of general intelligence than cortical morphometric features and ICA parcellation order affects predictive performance	9
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	9
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	9
Editorial Board	9
On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting	8
Empathy in subjects with high intellectual potential (HIP): Rethinking stereotypes through a multidimensional and developmental review	8
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes	8
A synthetic theory to integrate and explain the causes of the Flynn effect: The Parental Executive Model	8
Writing hand preference and cognitive function across the childhood years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study	8
Functional brain networks involved in the Raven's standard progressive matrices task and their relation to theories of fluid intelligence	7
Processing speed mediates the development of tech tilt and academic tilt in adolescence	7
Shared reading aloud fosters intelligence: Three cluster-randomized control trials in elementary and middle school	7
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development	7
Cognitive ability and creativity: Typology contributions and a meta-analytic review	7
Spatial ability as a distinct domain of human cognition: An evolutionary perspective	7
Process differences as a function of test modifications: Construct validity of Raven's advanced progressive matrices under standard, abbreviated and/or speeded conditions – A meta-analysis	7
International differences in math and science tilts: The stability, geography, and predictive power of tilt for economic criteria	7
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits	7
Looking for transfer in all the wrong places: How intellectual abilities can be enhanced through diverse experience among older adults	6
Cognitive reflection, cognitive intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis	6
The association between intelligence and financial literacy: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	6
The moderating effect of the DMN connectivity on the correlation between online creativity performances in single- and paired-player modes	6
What should replicate in intelligence research? Setting the bar for a cumulative science	6
Analytic thinking outruns fluid reasoning in explaining rejection of pseudoscience, paranormal, and conspiracist beliefs	6
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

Joint modeling of cognitive aging and survival: Evaluation of birth cohort differences	5
Latin square tasks: A multi-study evaluation	5
Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification	5
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	5
Exploring exceptional minds: Political orientations of gifted adults	5
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	5
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	5
Are Piagetian scales just intelligence tests?	4
Cloze test performance and cognitive abilities: A comprehensive meta-analysis	4
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	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
Alpha oscillatory evidence for shared underlying mechanisms of creativity and fluid intelligence above and beyond working memory-related activity	4
The role of learning in complex problem solving using MicroDYN	4
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	4
Inconsistent Flynn effect patterns may be due to a decreasing positive manifold: Cohort-based measurement-invariant IQ test score changes from 2005 to 2024	4
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	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
Decoding gender differences: Intellectual profiles of children with specific learning disabilities	4
Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes	4
Cognitive ability has powerful, widespread and robust effects on social stratification: Evidence from the 1979 and 1997 US National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth	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
Ongoing trends of human intelligence	4
Tilt increases at higher ability levels: Support for differentiation theories	3
Editorial Board	3
Inconclusive evidence for an increasing effect of maternal supportiveness on childhood intelligence in Dunkel et al. (2023): A simulated reanalysis	3
The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis	3
The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	3
Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe	3
Investigating retest effects in cognitive ability tests: An operation-specific approach	3
Seventy years, 1000 samples, and 300,000 SPM scores: A new meta-analysis of Flynn effect patterns	3
Editorial Board	3
Lack of measurement invariance in mental health assessment across intelligence levels: Investigation into nonlinearity reveals a broader issue	3
Reevaluating the Dunning-Kruger effect: A response to and replication of	3
Differentiation of general and specific abilities in intelligence. A bifactor study of age and gender differentiation in 8- to 19-year-olds	3
General or specific abilities? Evidence from 33 countries participating in the PISA assessments	2
Relative contributions of g and basic domain-specific mathematics skills to complex mathematics competencies	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
Bayesian networks to evaluate and test the Raven’s colored progressive matrices	2
The Short And Free Reasoning Ability assessmeNt (SAFRAN): Multidimensional, publicly available and only 15 minutes testing time	2
Varieties of divergent thinking: A network analysis of Guilford, Merriefield and Cox (1961)	2
Educational choice has greater effects on sex ratios of college STEM majors than has the greater male variance in general intelligence (g)	2
Common genetic and environmental effects on cognitive ability, conscientiousness, self-perceived abilities, and school performance	2
Flynn effects are biased by differential item functioning over time: A test using overlapping items in Wechsler scales	2
Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018)	2
The pursuit of equity and excellence: Advanced placement exam participation and performance by sex and by race/ethnicity, 1996–2022	2
Using a multi-strategy eye-tracking psychometric model to measure intelligence and identify cognitive strategy in Raven's advanced progressive matrices	2
Editorial Board	2
The threshold for teratogenic effects on child intelligence of prenatal exposure to phenylalanine	2
Putting the Flynn effect under the microscope: Item-level patterns in NLSYC PIAT-math scores, 1986–2004	2