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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Putting the Flynn effect under the microscope: Item-level patterns in NLSYC PIAT-math scores, 1986–2004	54
Looking beyond students' exploration and learning strategies: The role of test-taking effort in complex problem-solving	43
Editorial Board	41
Past reflections, present insights: A systematic review and new empirical research into the working memory capacity (WMC)-fluid intelligence (Gf) relationship	27
Rethinking the Dunning-Kruger effect: Negligible influence on a limited segment of the population	25
The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI	25
Is there a g in gunslinger? Cognitive predictors of firearms proficiency	22
Continuous time models support the reciprocal relations between academic achievement and fluid intelligence over the course of a school year	21
The Flynn effect in Germanophone preschoolers (1996–2018): Small effects, erratic directions, and questionable interpretations	21
Using macroevolutionary patterns to distinguish primary from secondary cognitive modules in primate cross-species performance data on five cognitive ability measures	20
Domain-specificity of Flynn effects in the CHC-model: Stratum II test score changes in Germanophone samples (1996–2018)	20
Rotational complexity in mental rotation tests: Cognitive processes in tasks requiring mental rotation around cardinal and skewed rotation axes	20
Still no Dunning-Kruger effect: A reply to Hiller	20
Editorial Board	19
Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence	19
Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Attitude toward numbers: A better predictor of financial literacy and intelligence than need for cognition	18
No spatial advantage in adolescent hockey players? Exploring measure specificity and masked effects	17
The uniformity of stereotype threat: Analyzing the moderating effects of premeasured performance	16
Ecological cognitive assessment has incremental validity for predicting academic performance over and above single occasion cognitive assessments	16
Don't waste your time measuring intelligence: Further evidence for the validity of a three-minute speeded reasoning test	15
The frustrated narcissist: Intelligence may reduce the chances of developing narcissistic rivalry	14
The future of intelligence: The central meaning-making unit of intelligence in the mind, the brain, and artificial intelligence	14
The taboo remains: Responding to a critical commentary	14
Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936	14

Carbon is to life as g is to _____: A review of the contributions to the special issue on specific abilities in intelligence	14
The relation between working memory and mathematics performance among students in math-intensive STEM programs	13
A valid evaluation of the theory of multiple intelligences is not yet possible: Problems of methodological quality for intervention studies	12
The threshold for teratogenic effects on child intelligence of prenatal exposure to phenylalanine	12
The genetics of specific cognitive abilities	12
Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives	11
General or specific abilities? Evidence from 33 countries participating in the PISA assessments	11
IQ in adolescence and cognition over 50 years later: The mediating role of adult personality	10
To predict the future, consider the past: Revisiting Carroll (1993) as a guide to the future of intelligence research	10
Is there a “g-neuron”? Establishing a systematic link between general intelligence (g) and the von Economo neuron	10
Cognitive characteristics of intellectually gifted children with a diagnosis of ADHD	10
Educational choice has greater effects on sex ratios of college STEM majors than has the greater male variance in general intelligence (g)	9
Reframing the clouded scientific spectacles of the Flynn effect: A view through two lenses	9
Temporal stability of specific ability scores and intelligence profiles in high ability students	9
Attention control and process overlap theory: Searching for cognitive processes underpinning the positive manifold	9
The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load	9
Ian Deary and Robert Sternberg answer five self-inflicted questions about human intelligence	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates	9
Bilingualism and intelligence in children exposed to poverty environments: A Raven's error pattern analysis using a generalized propensity score method	9
Anti-Mertonian norms undermine the scientific ethos: A critique of Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's policy proposals and associated justification	8
High individual alpha frequency brains run fast, but it does not make them smart	8
General cognitive ability and pericortical contrast	8
The pursuit of equity and excellence: Advanced placement exam participation and performance by sex and by race/ethnicity, 1996–2022	8
More than g: Verbal and performance IQ as predictors of socio-political attitudes	8
An endless cycle of ignorance is the consequence of not offering classes on IQ and human intelligence	8
Content meta-analysis of a racial hereditarian research “bibliography” reveals minimal support for Bird, Jackson Jr., and Winston's model of “scientific racism”	8
How to solve number series items: Can watching video tutorials increase test scores?	8
Normative responding on cognitive bias tasks: Some evidence for a weak rationality factor that is mostly explained by numeracy and actively open-minded thinking	8
Relative contributions of g and basic domain-specific mathematics skills to complex mathematics competencies	7
fMRI functional connectivity is a better predictor of general intelligence than cortical morphometric features and ICA parcellation order affects predictive performance	7
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	7
Polygenic influences associated with adolescent cognitive skills	7
Specific cognitive aptitudes and gifted samples	7
Common genetic and environmental effects on cognitive ability, conscientiousness, self-perceived abilities, and school performance	7
Predicting fluid intelligence in adolescence from structural MRI with deep learning methods	7
Latin square tasks: A multi-study evaluation	7
Using a multi-strategy eye-tracking psychometric model to measure intelligence and identify cognitive strategy in Raven's advanced progressive matrices	7
How much intelligence is there in artificial intelligence? A 2020 update	6
Comparing factor and network models of cognitive abilities using twin data	6
On the relationships between processing speed, intra-subject variability, working memory, and fluid intelligence – A cross-sectional study	6
Meta-analytic validity of cognitive ability for hands-on military job proficiency	6
Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism	6
The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics	6
Domain specific traits predict achievement in music and multipotentiality	5
Comment on “The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated”	5
Editorial Board	5
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence	5
General cognitive ability, as assessed by self-reported ACT scores, is associated with reduced emotional responding: Evidence from a Dynamic Affect Reactivity Task	5

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	5
Intercohort upsurge of cognitive ability among the general population in China: Evaluating a Flynn effect	5
Editorial Board	4
Reconsidering the search for alternatives to general mental ability tests	4
The relation between science achievement and general cognitive abilities in large-scale assessments	4
Alpha oscillatory evidence for shared underlying mechanisms of creativity and fluid intelligence above and beyond working memory-related activity	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Investment theory and tilt: Evidence from jobs and job families	3
Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood	3
The cross-cultural generalizability of cognitive ability measures: A systematic literature review.	3
Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project	3
Education, intelligence, placement, and selection: A discussion of paradoxes and fairness	3
The future of intelligence research in the coming age of artificial intelligence – With a special consideration of the philosophical movements of trans- and posthumanism	3
The possible role of field independence/dependence on developmental sex differences in general intelligence	3
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective	3
Not by g alone: The benefits of a college education among individuals with low levels of general cognitive ability	3
Recent developments, current challenges, and future directions in electrophysiological approaches to studying intelligence	3
Testing the structure of human cognitive ability using evidence obtained from the impact of brain lesions over abilities	3
No evidence for an effect of a working memory training program on white matter microstructure	3
Unraveling the nexus: Culture, cognitive competence, and economic performance across 86 nations (2000–2018)	3
Stability of mental abilities and physical growth from 6 months to 65 years: Findings from the Zurich Longitudinal Studies	3
The future of intelligence: The role of specific abilities	3
A special contribution from spatial ability to math word problem solving: Evidence from structural equation modelling and network analysis	3
Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive 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
A randomness perspective on intelligence processes	3
Using automatic item generation to construct scheduling problems measuring planning ability	3
All (tilt) models are wrong, but some are useful: A reply to critique of tilt	3
Cognitive ability and personality: Testing broad to nuanced associations with a smartphone app	3
Evolving networks of human intelligence	3
On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting	2
The role of learning in complex problem solving using MicroDYN	2
Ongoing trends of human intelligence	2
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment	2
A synthetic theory to integrate and explain the causes of the Flynn effect: The Parental Executive Model	2
Editorial Board	2
Intelligence matters for stochastic feedback processing during sequence learning in adolescents and young adults	2
An intelligent mind in a healthy body? Predicting health by cognitive ability in a large European sample	2
Occupational cognitive complexity and episodic memory in old age	2
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes	2
g's little helpers – VOTAT and NOTAT mediate the relation between intelligence and complex problem solving	2
The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated	2
Editorial Board	2
A new beginning of intelligence research. Designing the playground	2
Achievement tests and the importance of intelligence and personality in predicting life outcomes	2