Angela Duckworth

40.5k total citations · 16 hit papers
140 papers, 22.7k citations indexed

About

Angela Duckworth is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Angela Duckworth has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 22.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Social Psychology, 64 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 47 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Angela Duckworth's work include Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (42 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (41 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (33 papers). Angela Duckworth is often cited by papers focused on Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (42 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (41 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (33 papers). Angela Duckworth collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Angela Duckworth's co-authors include Martin E. P. Seligman, Patrick D. Quinn, Dennis R. Kelly, Michael D. Matthews, Christopher Peterson, Eli Tsukayama, James J. Gross, Margaret L. Kern, David S. Yeager and Brian M. Galla and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Angela Duckworth

136 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. 2004 2026 2011 2018 2007 2009 2005 2013 2008 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals.
    2007 4.0k citations Angela Duckworth, Christopher Peterson et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  2. Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit–S)
    2009 2.2k citations Angela Duckworth, Patrick D. Quinn Journal of Personality Assessment profile →
  3. Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents
    2005 1.5k citations Angela Duckworth et al. Psychological Science profile →
  4. An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance
    2013 863 citations Angela Duckworth et al. profile →
  5. The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
    2008 747 citations Angela Duckworth et al. profile →
  6. A meta-analysis of the convergent validity of self-control measures
    2011 739 citations Angela Duckworth, Margaret L. Kern Journal of Research in Personality profile →
  7. Self-discipline gives girls the edge: Gender in self-discipline, grades, and achievement test scores.
    2006 727 citations Angela Duckworth et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →
  8. Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice
    2004 665 citations Angela Duckworth et al. profile →
  9. The grit effect: predicting retention in the military, the workplace, school and marriage
    2014 661 citations Angela Duckworth et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →
  10. Self-Control and Grit
    2014 633 citations Angela Duckworth et al. profile →
  11. Measurement Matters
    2015 611 citations Angela Duckworth, David S. Yeager Educational Researcher profile →
  12. Self-Control and Academic Achievement
    2019 349 citations Angela Duckworth, Brian M. Galla et al. profile →
  13. More than resisting temptation: Beneficial habits mediate the relationship between self-control and positive life outcomes.
    2015 326 citations Brian M. Galla, Angela Duckworth Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  14. Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale
    2016 317 citations David S. Yeager, Gregory M. Walton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. The mixed effects of online diversity training
    2019 177 citations Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work
    2021 157 citations David S. Yeager, Jamie M. Carroll et al. Psychological Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Angela Duckworth United States 59 11.7k 7.0k 5.8k 4.7k 4.4k 140 22.7k
Richard Koestner Canada 64 11.0k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 4.8k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 5.0k 1.1× 238 22.7k
Gian Vittorio Caprara Italy 78 11.6k 1.0× 9.5k 1.4× 4.2k 0.7× 5.7k 1.2× 2.7k 0.6× 282 25.9k
Bart Soenens Belgium 80 13.5k 1.2× 10.0k 1.4× 4.5k 0.8× 5.0k 1.1× 3.1k 0.7× 336 24.6k
Robert J. Vallerand Canada 68 13.2k 1.1× 4.5k 0.6× 4.3k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 152 21.3k
Alexandre J. S. Morin Canada 66 8.3k 0.7× 5.3k 0.8× 4.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 337 18.2k
Maarten Vansteenkiste Belgium 95 20.2k 1.7× 10.2k 1.5× 6.6k 1.1× 6.2k 1.3× 5.8k 1.3× 389 33.9k
Kennon M. Sheldon United States 85 21.2k 1.8× 8.2k 1.2× 6.4k 1.1× 2.4k 0.5× 9.9k 2.2× 230 32.5k
Todd D. Little United States 70 11.9k 1.0× 10.5k 1.5× 4.0k 0.7× 5.7k 1.2× 2.1k 0.5× 287 28.8k
Jean M. Twenge United States 89 13.0k 1.1× 11.6k 1.6× 4.8k 0.8× 4.0k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 177 32.2k
Claudio Barbaranelli Italy 54 6.8k 0.6× 5.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.5× 4.8k 1.0× 1.2k 0.3× 218 19.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Angela Duckworth

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Fields of papers citing papers by Angela Duckworth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Angela Duckworth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Angela Duckworth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Angela Duckworth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Angela Duckworth. Angela Duckworth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Milkman, Katherine L., Dena M. Gromet, Heather N. Graci, et al.. (2025). Can reminder emails compel Americans to save? A two-million-person megastudy. PNAS Nexus. 4(9). pgaf280–pgaf280.
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Park, Yeji, et al.. (2025). Open-mindedness predicts racial, political, and socioeconomic diversity of real-world friendship networks. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 28(6). 1145–1167.
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Mazar, Asaf, et al.. (2024). People judge others more harshly after talking to bots. PNAS Nexus. 3(9). pgae397–pgae397. 3 indexed citations
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Milkman, Katherine L., Dena M. Gromet, Ron Berman, et al.. (2024). Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not. Nature. 631(8019). 179–188. 12 indexed citations
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Milkman, Katherine L., Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, et al.. (2022). A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(11). 1515–1524. 15 indexed citations
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Yeager, David S., Jamie M. Carroll, Jenny Buontempo, et al.. (2021). Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work. Psychological Science. 33(1). 18–32. 157 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duckworth, Angela, et al.. (2021). Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically. Educational Researcher. 50(7). 479–482. 42 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Tom, Abdullah Almaatouq, Ekaterina Damer, et al.. (2021). Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Rege, Mari, Paul Hanselman, Ingeborg Foldøy Solli, et al.. (2020). How can we inspire nations of learners? An investigation of growth mindset and challenge-seeking in two countries.. American Psychologist. 76(5). 755–767. 68 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela, et al.. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(47). 23499–23504. 92 indexed citations
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Hutt, Stephen, Margo Gardner, Angela Duckworth, & Sidney K. D’Mello. (2019). Evaluating Fairness and Generalizability in Models Predicting On-Time Graduation from College Applications.. Educational Data Mining. 27 indexed citations
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Meindl, Peter, Alisa Yu, Brian M. Galla, et al.. (2018). A brief behavioral measure of frustration tolerance predicts academic achievement immediately and two years later.. Emotion. 19(6). 1081–1092. 34 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela & Laurence Steinberg. (2015). Unpacking Self-Control. Child Development Perspectives. 9(1). 32–37. 140 indexed citations
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Robertson‐Kraft, Claire & Angela Duckworth. (2014). True Grit: Trait-level Perseverance and Passion for Long-term Goals Predicts Effectiveness and Retention among Novice Teachers.. PubMed Central. 116(3). 185 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela, Betty Y.S. Kim, & Eli Tsukayama. (2013). Life Stress Impairs Self-Control in Early Adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 608–608. 96 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela, Patrick D. Quinn, & Eli Tsukayama. (2011). What No Child Left Behind leaves behind: The roles of IQ and self-control in predicting standardized achievement test scores and report card grades.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 104(2). 439–451. 282 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela, Patrick D. Quinn, Donald R. Lynam, & Magda Stouthamer‐Loeber. (2011). Role of Test Motivation in Intelligence Testing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Duckworth, Angela & Margaret L. Kern. (2011). A meta-analysis of the convergent validity of self-control measures. Journal of Research in Personality. 45(3). 259–268. 739 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duckworth, Angela & Patrick D. Quinn. (2009). Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit–S). Journal of Personality Assessment. 91(2). 166–174. 2188 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duckworth, Angela, Christopher Peterson, Michael D. Matthews, & Dennis R. Kelly. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92(6). 1087–1101. 4037 indexed citations breakdown →

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