Boris Forthmann

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Boris Forthmann is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Forthmann has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Boris Forthmann's work include Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (44 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (13 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (10 papers). Boris Forthmann is often cited by papers focused on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (44 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (13 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (10 papers). Boris Forthmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Boris Forthmann's co-authors include Heinz Holling, Baptiste Barbot, Roni Reiter‐Palmon, Heinz Holling, Pınar Çelik, Martin Storme, Philipp Doebler, Todd Lubart, Maciej Karwowski and Mathias Benedek and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Boris Forthmann

80 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Scoring divergent thinking tests: A review and systematic framework.
    2019 252 citations Boris Forthmann et al. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Boris Forthmann 1.2k 483 275 267 160 84 1.6k
Martin Storme 741 0.6× 289 0.6× 338 1.2× 105 0.4× 111 0.7× 60 1.2k
Weihua Niu 1.1k 0.9× 263 0.5× 350 1.3× 175 0.7× 144 0.9× 39 1.4k
Denis Dumas 888 0.7× 263 0.5× 176 0.6× 474 1.8× 146 0.9× 96 1.5k
Jacek Gralewski 813 0.7× 240 0.5× 242 0.9× 119 0.4× 42 0.3× 23 1.0k
Hsueh‐Chih Chen 741 0.6× 314 0.7× 567 2.1× 315 1.2× 45 0.3× 107 1.7k
Aleksandra Gajda 667 0.5× 240 0.5× 187 0.7× 143 0.5× 35 0.2× 23 982
Roberta M. Milgram 1.2k 1.0× 410 0.8× 343 1.2× 258 1.0× 138 0.9× 65 1.8k
Donald W. MacKinnon 938 0.8× 274 0.6× 254 0.9× 164 0.6× 145 0.9× 23 1.3k
Wayne A. Baughman 542 0.4× 133 0.3× 199 0.7× 79 0.3× 192 1.2× 24 801
Janet E. Davidson 796 0.6× 314 0.7× 291 1.1× 499 1.9× 43 0.3× 15 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Forthmann

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All Works

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Forthmann, Boris & Steffen Nestler. (2024). Latent variable modeling of scientific impact: Estimation of the Q model parameters with structural equation models. Quantitative Science Studies. 5(3). 668–680. 1 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, Philipp Doebler, & Rüdiger Mutz. (2024). Why summing up bibliometric indicators does not justify a composite indicator. Scientometrics. 129(12). 7475–7499. 2 indexed citations
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Ubben, Malte S., Boris Forthmann, Felix Reer, et al.. (2024). Mobile learning in the classroom – Should students bring mobile devices for learning, or should these be provided by schools?. Education and Information Technologies. 30(7). 9463–9496. 2 indexed citations
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Feybesse, Cyrille, Boris Forthmann, Félix Neto, Heinz Holling, & Elaine Hatfield. (2024). Measuring Love Around the World: A Cross-Cultural Reliability Generalization. Sexuality & Culture. 29(2). 561–588.
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2024). Reliable individual differences in researcher performance capacity estimates: evaluating productivity as explanatory variable. Scientometrics. 130(1). 43–66. 1 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2024). Aiming at Creativity and Ending up with a Range from Low‐Hanging Fruits to Foolishness: A Reflective Model of Creativity. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(3). 444–459. 2 indexed citations
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Dumas, Denis, Boris Forthmann, & Patricia A. Alexander. (2024). Using a model of domain learning to understand the development of creativity. Educational Psychologist. 59(3). 143–158. 16 indexed citations
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Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2024). Automated Scoring of Scientific Creativity in German. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(3). 321–327. 2 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2024). A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 15 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2024). Investigation of Response Aggregation Methods in Divergent Thinking Assessments. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 59(3). 8 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2023). Retest Reliability of Situational Judgment Tests. Journal of Personnel Psychology. 22(4). 169–184. 4 indexed citations
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Förster, Natalie, Boris Forthmann, Mitja D. Back, & Elmar Souvignier. (2022). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on reading performance of second grade children in Germany. Reading and Writing. 36(2). 289–315. 9 indexed citations
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Huang, He, et al.. (2022). The Machines Take Over: A Comparison of Various Supervised Learning Approaches for Automated Scoring of Divergent Thinking Tasks. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 57(1). 17–36. 22 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2021). The Relationship between Intelligence and Divergent Thinking—A Meta-Analytic Update. Journal of Intelligence. 9(2). 23–23. 74 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2019). A New Perspective on the Multidimensionality of Divergent Thinking Tasks. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 985–985. 22 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2016). The be-creative effect in divergent thinking: The interplay of instruction and object frequency. Intelligence. 57. 25–32. 94 indexed citations

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