| 1 | Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence | Intelligence | 1999 | 1,616 |
| 2 | Reasoning ability is (little more than) working-memory capacity?! | Intelligence | 1990 | 1,441 |
| 3 | Intelligence and educational achievement | Intelligence | 2007 | 1,255 |
| 4 | Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life | Intelligence | 1997 | 1,084 |
| 5 | The intelligence of emotional intelligence | Intelligence | 1993 | 977 |
| 6 | CHC theory and the human cognitive abilities project: Standing on the shoulders of the giants of psychometric intelligence research | Intelligence | 2009 | 962 |
| 7 | A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence | Intelligence | 2002 | 815 |
| 8 | Mainstream science on intelligence: An editorial with 52 signatories, history, and bibliography | Intelligence | 1997 | 733 |
| 9 | Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability | Intelligence | 2002 | 679 |
| 10 | Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research | Intelligence | 2007 | 655 |
| 11 | Cortical glucose metabolic rate correlates of abstract reasoning and attention studied with positron emission tomography | Intelligence | 1988 | 616 |
| 12 | A theory of adult intellectual development: Process, personality, interests, and knowledge | Intelligence | 1996 | 607 |
| 13 | Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning | Intelligence | 2006 | 601 |
| 14 | A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities | Intelligence | 2004 | 599 |
| 15 | A unifying model for the structure of intellectual abilities | Intelligence | 1984 | 593 |
| 16 | Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity | Intelligence | 2014 | 507 |
| 17 | Working-memory capacity explains reasoning ability—and a little bit more | Intelligence | 2002 | 495 |
| 18 | Big-brained people are smarter: A meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence | Intelligence | 2005 | 477 |
| 19 | Are intelligence and creativity really so different?☆Fluid intelligence, executive processes, and strategy use in divergent thinking | Intelligence | 2011 | 454 |
| 20 | Predicting academic achievement with cognitive ability | Intelligence | 2007 | 436 |
| 21 | Speed of information processing and general intelligence | Intelligence | 1983 | 396 |
| 22 | The Stability of Individual Differences in Mental Ability from Childhood to Old Age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey | Intelligence | 2000 | 385 |
| 23 | The relationship between n-back performance and matrix reasoning — implications for training and transfer | Intelligence | 2010 | 376 |
| 24 | What cognitive abilities are involved in trail-making performance? | Intelligence | 2011 | 370 |
| 25 | Executive functioning in children, and its relations with reasoning, reading, and arithmetic | Intelligence | 2007 | 363 |
| 26 | The multiple faces of working memory | Intelligence | 2003 | 360 |
| 27 | The structure of human intelligence: It is verbal, perceptual, and image rotation (VPR), not fluid and crystallized | Intelligence | 2005 | 359 |
| 28 | Intelligence and school grades: A meta-analysis | Intelligence | 2015 | 359 |
| 29 | Working memory is (almost) perfectly predicted by g | Intelligence | 2004 | 356 |
| 30 | Emotional intelligence and the identification of emotion | Intelligence | 1996 | 353 |
| 31 | Intelligence and changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate following learning | Intelligence | 1992 | 349 |
| 32 | In vivo brain size and intelligence | Intelligence | 1991 | 319 |
| 33 | Reaction time, movement time, and intelligence | Intelligence | 1979 | 317 |
| 34 | The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection | Intelligence | 2013 | 315 |
| 35 | The complexity continuum in the radex and hierarchical models of intelligence | Intelligence | 1983 | 307 |
| 36 | Predicting school achievement from general cognitive ability, self-perceived ability, and intrinsic value | Intelligence | 2006 | 307 |
| 37 | Reaction times and intelligence differences A population-based cohort study | Intelligence | 2001 | 297 |
| 38 | The relationship between academic and practical intelligence: a case study in Kenya | Intelligence | 2001 | 297 |
| 39 | Correlations of mental tests with each other and with cognitive variables are highest for low IQ groups | Intelligence | 1989 | 296 |
| 40 | Just one g: consistent results from three test batteries | Intelligence | 2004 | 291 |
| 41 | Delay discounting and intelligence: A meta-analysis | Intelligence | 2008 | 282 |
| 42 | What is a good g? | Intelligence | 1994 | 267 |
| 43 | The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes | Intelligence | 2013 | 264 |
| 44 | The international cognitive ability resource: Development and initial validation of a public-domain measure | Intelligence | 2014 | 261 |
| 45 | Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert? | Intelligence | 2014 | 260 |
| 46 | Still just 1 g: Consistent results from five test batteries | Intelligence | 2008 | 255 |
| 47 | Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability: Can they be accounted for by differences in working memory capacity? | Intelligence | 2007 | 247 |
| 48 | Working memory and intelligence are highly related constructs, but why? | Intelligence | 2008 | 246 |
| 49 | Sex differences on the progressive matrices: A meta-analysis | Intelligence | 2004 | 245 |
| 50 | The limitations of model fit in comparing the bi-factor versus higher-order models of human cognitive ability structure | Intelligence | 2013 | 235 |
