Cyril Burt

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Cyril Burt is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Cyril Burt has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 6 papers in Education and 6 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Cyril Burt's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (4 papers) and Digital Media and Visual Art (3 papers). Cyril Burt is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (4 papers) and Digital Media and Visual Art (3 papers). Cyril Burt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Australia. Cyril Burt's co-authors include Warren S. Torgerson, C. G. Jung, Geoffrey Tillotson, Herbert Solomon, John Downing, Edward L. Thorndike, Emily L. Williams, F.V. Smith, Miles A. Tinker and Charlotte Banks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Psychologist and Biometrika.

In The Last Decade

Cyril Burt

73 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Theory and Methods of Scaling. 1959 2026 1981 2003 1959 100 200 300
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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. Theory and Methods of Scaling.
    1959 367 citations Cyril Burt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cyril Burt United Kingdom 19 470 247 222 203 197 84 1.7k
Mary Henle United States 12 204 0.4× 304 1.2× 242 1.1× 158 0.8× 152 0.8× 38 1.2k
Abraham S. Luchins United States 15 210 0.4× 206 0.8× 138 0.6× 134 0.7× 80 0.4× 93 1.0k
Benjamin Lee Whorf Netherlands 9 649 1.4× 259 1.0× 255 1.1× 163 0.8× 157 0.8× 12 2.1k
Alfred Kuhn United States 8 303 0.6× 502 2.0× 217 1.0× 391 1.9× 82 0.4× 21 1.7k
Clifford R. Mynatt United States 16 168 0.4× 213 0.9× 196 0.9× 209 1.0× 114 0.6× 30 1.4k
Philip E. Vernon United Kingdom 22 996 2.1× 480 1.9× 651 2.9× 327 1.6× 588 3.0× 88 2.6k
Stuart Chase 2 445 0.9× 198 0.8× 184 0.8× 116 0.6× 121 0.6× 5 1.5k
Roger L. Dominowski United States 18 593 1.3× 212 0.9× 613 2.8× 551 2.7× 185 0.9× 41 1.6k
Norman Malcolm United Kingdom 21 535 1.1× 161 0.7× 137 0.6× 340 1.7× 94 0.5× 68 1.8k
Sigmund Koch United States 16 350 0.7× 778 3.1× 442 2.0× 436 2.1× 156 0.8× 31 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cyril Burt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cyril Burt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burt, Cyril. (2018). Handbook of Tests: For Use in Schools. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa).
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Burt, Cyril. (1972). Inheritance of general intelligence.. American Psychologist. 27(3). 175–190. 39 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1969). Personal Knowledge, Art, and the Humanities. Journal of Aesthetic Education. 3(2). 29–29. 2 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1967). THE GENETIC DETERMINATION OF INTELLIGENCE: A REPLY. British Journal of Psychology. 58(1-2). 153–162. 5 indexed citations
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Downing, John & Cyril Burt. (1965). The initial teaching alphabet : explained and illustrated. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 6 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1965). CRITICAL NOTICE. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 35(2). 259–266. 3 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1964). CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEHAVIOURISM A REPLY. British Journal of Psychology. 55(1). 93–96. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1963). THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VALUE. 16(1). 59–104. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1963). IS INTELLIGENCE DISTRIBUTED NORMALLY?. 16(2). 175–190. 29 indexed citations
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Downing, John & Cyril Burt. (1962). To be or not to be : the new augmented Roman alphabet explained and illustrated. Cassell eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1962). THE CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. British Journal of Psychology. 53(3). 229–242. 82 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1961). Harry H. Harman. Modern Factor Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Pp. xvi + 469.. Psychometrika. 26(4). 453–454. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1960). THE FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE WECHSLER SCALE. II. 13(1). 82–87. 4 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1959). EXPERIMENTS ON TELEPATHY IN CHILDREN. 12(1). 55–99. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril, et al.. (1957). HEREDITY AND INTELLIGENCE: A REPLY TO CRITICISMS. 10(1). 33–63. 10 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1956). Freud's “Interpretation of Dreams”. Nature. 177(4507). 495–496. 2 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril, et al.. (1956). THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEARNING PROCESS. 9(1). 49–62. 2 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1955). MENTAL MEASUREMENT. BMJ. 2(4941). 724.2–724. 3 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1953). Contributions of psychology to social problems. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, Cyril. (1952). Tests of significance in factor analysis.. British Journal of Psychology. 17 indexed citations

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