OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Intelligence is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	71
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	55
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	44
Editorial Board	38
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	27
Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores	26
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	24
Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults	23
To predict the future, consider the past: Revisiting Carroll (1993) as a guide to the future of intelligence research	23
Rotational complexity in mental rotation tests: Cognitive processes in tasks requiring mental rotation around cardinal and skewed rotation axes	22
Editorial Board	21
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	20
Predicting fluid intelligence in adolescence from structural MRI with deep learning methods	19
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	19
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	18
Not by g alone: The benefits of a college education among individuals with low levels of general cognitive ability	16
A randomness perspective on intelligence processes	16
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective	15
The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics	15
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	14
Change and stability in the association of parents' education with children's intelligence	14
Editorial Board	14
An intelligent mind in a healthy body? Predicting health by cognitive ability in a large European sample	13

Form perception speed is critical for the relationship between non-verbal number sense and arithmetic fluency	13
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment	13
The factor structure of executive function in childhood and adolescence	12
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
New methods, persistent issues, and one solution: Gene-environment interaction studies of childhood cognitive development	12
Editorial Board	12
Genetic and environmental contributions to IQ in adoptive and biological families with 30-year-old offspring	11
The biological basis of intelligence: Benchmark findings	11
Editorial Board	11
The interplay between domain-specific knowledge and selected investment traits across the life span	11
The ups and downs of intelligence: The co-occurrence model and its associated research program	11
How accurately does self-reported intelligence reflect psychometrically measured IQ?	11
g: Formative, reflective, or both?	11
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	10
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	10
Individual differences in spatial navigation and working memory	10
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
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	9
Specific cognitive aptitudes and gifted samples	9
Evolving networks of human intelligence	9
Editorial Board	9
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fMRI functional connectivity is a better predictor of general intelligence than cortical morphometric features and ICA parcellation order affects predictive performance	9
Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism	9
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes	8
Empathy in subjects with high intellectual potential (HIP): Rethinking stereotypes through a multidimensional and developmental review	8
A synthetic theory to integrate and explain the causes of the Flynn effect: The Parental Executive Model	8
Domain specific traits predict achievement in music and multipotentiality	8
On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting	8
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	8
Functional brain networks involved in the Raven's standard progressive matrices task and their relation to theories of fluid intelligence	8
Occupational cognitive complexity and episodic memory in old age	8
Genetic propensities for verbal and spatial ability have opposite effects on body mass index and risk of schizophrenia	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
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
Cognitive ability and creativity: Typology contributions and a meta-analytic review	7
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development	7
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits	7
International differences in math and science tilts: The stability, geography, and predictive power of tilt for economic criteria	7
The moderating effect of the DMN connectivity on the correlation between online creativity performances in single- and paired-player modes	6
Cognitive reflection, cognitive intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis	6
Editorial Board	6
Looking for transfer in all the wrong places: How intellectual abilities can be enhanced through diverse experience among older adults	6
The association between intelligence and financial literacy: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	6
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	6
Analytic thinking outruns fluid reasoning in explaining rejection of pseudoscience, paranormal, and conspiracist beliefs	6

Joint modeling of cognitive aging and survival: Evaluation of birth cohort differences	6
Spatial ability as a distinct domain of human cognition: An evolutionary perspective	6
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	5
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	5
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	5
Don't waste your time measuring intelligence: Further evidence for the validity of a three-minute speeded reasoning test	5
On the relationships between processing speed, intra-subject variability, working memory, and fluid intelligence – A cross-sectional study	5
The other half of intelligence: An obstacle-racecourse performance-based model of intelligence in action	5
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect: Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population	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
Comment on “The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated”	4
The role of learning in complex problem solving using MicroDYN	4
Are Piagetian scales just intelligence tests?	4
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	4
All (tilt) models are wrong, but some are useful: A reply to critique of tilt	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
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	4
Alpha oscillatory evidence for shared underlying mechanisms of creativity and fluid intelligence above and beyond working memory-related activity	4
Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes	4
Editorial Board	3
Measurement invariance of Bildiren non-verbal cognitive ability (BNV) test across gender, grade level, age, and ethnicity	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
Editorial Board	3
Seventy years, 1000 samples, and 300,000 SPM scores: A new meta-analysis of Flynn effect patterns	3
Reevaluating the Dunning-Kruger effect: A response to and replication of	3
General or specific abilities? Evidence from 33 countries participating in the PISA assessments	3
Decoding gender differences: Intellectual profiles of children with specific learning disabilities	3
Tilt increases at higher ability levels: Support for differentiation theories	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
Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe	3
Putting the Flynn effect under the microscope: Item-level patterns in NLSYC PIAT-math scores, 1986–2004	3
Ongoing trends of human intelligence	3
The association between intelligence and face processing abilities: A conceptual and meta-analytic review	3
Inconclusive evidence for an increasing effect of maternal supportiveness on childhood intelligence in Dunkel et al. (2023): A simulated reanalysis	3
Flynn effects are biased by differential item functioning over time: A test using overlapping items in Wechsler scales	3
The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis	3
The threshold for teratogenic effects on child intelligence of prenatal exposure to phenylalanine	3