Topic · Cognitive Abilities and Testing
Most cited papers in Cognitive Abilities and Testing
What are the most cited papers in Cognitive Abilities and Testing?
The most cited paper in Cognitive Abilities and Testing is "G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences" (Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Albert-Georg Lang et al., 2007), with 66,357 citations. Next come "The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis" (15,905) and "GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research—an update" (13,417).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,649 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Albert-Georg Lang et al. · Behavior Research Methods | May 2007 | 66,357 |
| 2 | The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Aug 2000 | 15,905 |
| 3 | GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research—an update Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Bioinformatics | 20 Jul 2012 | 13,417 |
| 4 | Executive Functions Adele Diamond · Annual Review of Psychology | 30 Sep 2012 | 12,954 |
| 5 | THE ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY STATES BY RATING Max Hamilton · British Journal of Medical Psychology | Mar 1959 | 11,575 |
| 6 | Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Leandre R. Fabrigar, Duane T. Wegener, Robert C. MacCallum et al. · Psychological Methods | Sep 1999 | 9,154 |
| 7 | The standards for educational and psychological testing. Daniel R. Eignor · American Psychological Association eBooks | 2013 | 7,079 |
| 8 | Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Angela Lee Duckworth, Christopher Peterson, Michael D. Matthews et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 6,956 |
| 9 | An Introduction to the Five‐Factor Model and Its Applications Robert R. McCrae, Oliver P. John · Journal of Personality | Jun 1992 | 6,884 |
| 10 | Forming inferences about some intraclass correlation coefficients. Kenneth O. McGraw, S. P. Wong · Psychological Methods | Mar 1996 | 6,836 |
| 11 | The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report Leonard R. Derogatis, Nick Melisaratos · Psychological Medicine | Aug 1983 | 6,741 |
| 12 | Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model John M. Digman · Annual Review of Psychology | 1990 | 6,515 |
| 13 | The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Timothy A. Salthouse · Psychological Review | 1996 | 5,564 |
| 14 | The psychology of sex differences Eleanor Emmons Maccoby · Behavior Therapy | Jul 1975 | 5,543 |
| 15 | The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Lewis R. Goldberg · Psychological Assessment | Mar 1992 | 5,305 |
| 16 | The cognitive control of emotion Kevin N. Ochsner, John M. Gross · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 29 Apr 2005 | 4,501 |
| 17 | Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies Alan Baddeley · Annual Review of Psychology | Mar 2011 | 4,307 |
| 18 | A general approach to causal mediation analysis. Kosuke Imai, Luke J Keele, Dustin H. Tingley · Psychological Methods | 2010 | 4,126 |
| 19 | The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings. Frank L. Schmidt, John E. Hunter · Psychological Bulletin | Sep 1998 | 4,076 |
| 20 | Item response theory for psychologists Susan E. Embretson, Steven P. Reise | 2000 | 3,943 |
| 21 | Personality trait structure as a human universal. Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa · American Psychologist | May 1997 | 3,920 |
| 22 | Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex typing. Sandra Lipsitz Bem · Psychological Review | 1981 | 3,862 |
| 23 | The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman · Current Directions in Psychological Science | 31 Jan 2012 | 3,848 |
| 24 | A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda · Psychological Review | 1995 | 3,802 |
| 25 | A 2 × 2 achievement goal framework. Andrew J. Elliot, Holly A. McGregor · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 3,606 |
| 26 | Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition Charles H. Hillman, Kirk I. Erickson, Arthur F. Kramer · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Dec 2007 | 3,600 |
| 27 | Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis Patrick F. Sullivan, Michael C. Neale, Kenneth S. Kendler · American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 2000 | 3,513 |
| 28 | Four ways five factors are basic Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae · Personality and Individual Differences | Jun 1992 | 3,401 |
| 29 | Neuropsychological assessment. Lisa Cipolotti, E. K. Warrington · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | Jun 1995 | 3,268 |
| 30 | The rank-order consistency of personality traits from childhood to old age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Brent W. Roberts, Wendy F. DelVecchio · Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 3,161 |
| 31 | Relating Effortful Control, Executive Function, and False Belief Understanding to Emerging Math and Literacy Ability in Kindergarten Clancy Blair, Rachel A. Razza · Child Development | Mar 2007 | 3,158 |
| 32 | Beyond diathesis stress: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences. Jay Belsky, Michael Pluess · Psychological Bulletin | 2009 | 3,062 |
| 33 | Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable approach. Randall W Engle, Stephen W. Tuholski, James E. Laughlin et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1999 | 3,029 |
| 34 | Task switching Stephen Monsell · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Mar 2003 | 2,950 |
| 35 | Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence John D. Mayer, David R. A. Caruso, Peter Salovey · Intelligence | Dec 1999 | 2,877 |
| 36 | Personality Development: Stability and Change Avshalom Caspi, Brent W. Roberts, Rebecca L. Shiner · Annual Review of Psychology | 13 Jan 2005 | 2,716 |
| 37 | Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms. Rachel H. Salk, Janet Shibley Hyde, Lyn Y. Abramson · Psychological Bulletin | 27 Apr 2017 | 2,694 |
| 38 | Executive function in preschoolers: A review using an integrative framework. Nancy Garon, Susan E. Bryson, Isabel Mary Smith · Psychological Bulletin | 2008 | 2,694 |
| 39 | Control and information in the intrapersonal sphere: An extension of cognitive evaluation theory. Richard M. Ryan · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Sep 1982 | 2,642 |
| 40 | Data analysis in social psychology. David A. Kenny, Deborah A. Kashy, Niall P. Bolger | 1998 | 2,601 |
| 41 | Cultivating competence, self-efficacy, and intrinsic interest through proximal self-motivation. Albert Bandura, Dale H. Schunk · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Sep 1981 | 2,570 |
| 42 | Emotion regulation: Conceptual foundations James Jonathan Gross, Ross A. Thompson | 2007 | 2,566 |
| 43 | Informant Discrepancies in the Assessment of Childhood Psychopathology: A Critical Review, Theoretical Framework, and Recommendations for Further Study. Andres De Los Reyes, Alan E. Kazdin · Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 2,563 |
| 44 | Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention Randall W Engle · Current Directions in Psychological Science | Feb 2002 | 2,541 |
| 45 | The p Factor Avshalom Caspi, Renate Houts, Daniel W. Belsky et al. · Clinical Psychological Science | 14 Aug 2013 | 2,528 |
| 46 | Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Published Research Robin K. Henson, J. Kyle Roberts · Educational and Psychological Measurement | 8 May 2006 | 2,458 |
| 47 | Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. Ulric Neisser, Gwyneth M. Boodoo, Thomas J. Bouchard et al. · American Psychologist | Feb 1996 | 2,414 |
| 48 | Healthy and Unhealthy Emotion Regulation: Personality Processes, Individual Differences, and Life Span Development Oliver P. John, James Jonathan Gross · Journal of Personality | 28 Oct 2004 | 2,391 |
| 49 | The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Rebecca L. Shiner et al. · Perspectives on Psychological Science | 21 Nov 2007 | 2,389 |
| 50 | Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Parameters: Application of an EM Algorithm R. Darrell Bock, Murray A. Aitkin · Psychometrika | Dec 1981 | 2,361 |
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