David C. Geary

32.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
293 papers, 21.8k citations indexed

About

David C. Geary is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David C. Geary has authored 293 papers receiving a total of 21.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Statistics and Probability, 112 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 104 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in David C. Geary's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (138 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (73 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (62 papers). David C. Geary is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (138 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (73 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (62 papers). David C. Geary collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. David C. Geary's co-authors include Mary K. Hoard, Gijsbert Stoet, Lara Nugent, Drew H. Bailey, Jennifer Byrd‐Craven, Sam C. Brown, C. Christine Bow-Thomas, Mark V. Flinn, Keith F. Widaman and Kristy vanMarle and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David C. Geary

284 papers receiving 20.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mathematics and Learning Disabilities

2004 816 citations David C. Geary profile →
The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics

2007 747 citations David C. Geary et al. profile →
Mathematical disabilities: Cognitive, neuropsychological, and genetic components.

1993 742 citations David C. Geary profile →
Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences.

1998 689 citations David C. Geary profile →
Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Achievement Deficits in Children With Mathematical Learning Disability

2007 580 citations David C. Geary, Mary K. Hoard et al. Child Development profile →
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

2018 574 citations Gijsbert Stoet, David C. Geary Psychological Science profile →
Cognitive predictors of achievement growth in mathematics: A 5-year longitudinal study.

2011 573 citations David C. Geary profile →
Sex Differences in Mathematics and Reading Achievement Are Inversely Related: Within- and Across-Nation Assessment of 10 Years of PISA Data

2013 287 citations Gijsbert Stoet, David C. Geary PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David C. Geary United States	80	11.9k	9.5k	9.4k	5.5k	3.0k	293	21.8k
Elizabeth S. Spelke United States	81	10.7k 0.9×	14.9k 1.6×	7.9k 0.8×	5.0k 0.9×	9.2k 3.1×	306	28.1k
Susan C. Levine United States	61	5.0k 0.4×	5.6k 0.6×	6.5k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	179	13.0k
Sian L. Beilock United States	58	2.6k 0.2×	4.0k 0.4×	3.7k 0.4×	4.7k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	113	12.6k
Susan Carey United States	75	4.6k 0.4×	10.3k 1.1×	5.0k 0.5×	4.6k 0.8×	8.1k 2.7×	167	20.3k
Robert S. Siegler United States	76	12.5k 1.1×	10.9k 1.1×	12.5k 1.3×	3.0k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	244	20.5k
Marcia C. Linn United States	63	1.2k 0.1×	7.9k 0.8×	10.2k 1.1×	4.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	322	19.7k
John H. Flavell United States	58	1.5k 0.1×	13.8k 1.5×	7.3k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	5.0k 1.7×	169	22.9k
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff United States	64	1.1k 0.1×	9.3k 1.0×	5.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	260	14.5k
Janellen Huttenlocher United States	59	3.4k 0.3×	7.8k 0.8×	3.8k 0.4×	2.6k 0.5×	3.6k 1.2×	139	13.6k
Camilla Persson Benbow United States	57	2.0k 0.2×	2.0k 0.2×	3.2k 0.3×	6.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	144	11.3k

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Menon, Vinod, et al.. (2025). Neurodevelopmental commonalities in cognitive control networks for mathematics and reading in meta-analysis of 3308 participants. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8398–8398. 1 indexed citations

Popov, Vitaliy, Yaoran Li, Hanxiang Du, et al.. (2025). Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 58. 101920–101920.

Stoet, Gijsbert, et al.. (2025). The STEM Conundrum: Sex Differences in Intraindividual Academic Strengths and the Gender Equality Paradox Across Academic Achievement Levels. 1(2).

Stoet, Gijsbert, et al.. (2024). The Gender-Equality Paradox in Intraindividual Academic Strengths: A Cross-Temporal Analysis. Psychological Science. 35(11). 1246–1259. 2 indexed citations

Ünal, Zehra E., et al.. (2024). The relation between number line performance and mathematics outcomes: Two meta‐analyses. Developmental Science. 27(4). e13509–e13509. 3 indexed citations

Geary, David C., et al.. (2023). Framing mathematical content in evolutionarily salient contexts improves students’ learning motivation. Learning and Motivation. 82. 101894–101894. 9 indexed citations

Ponzi, Davidé, David C. Geary, & Mark V. Flinn. (2023). Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community. Evolution and Human Behavior. 44(5). 422–429. 2 indexed citations

Hone, Liana S. E., John E. Scofield, Bruce D. Bartholow, & David C. Geary. (2020). Frequency of Recent Binge Drinking Is Associated With Sex-Specific Cognitive Deficits: Evidence for Condition-Dependent Trait Expression in Humans. Evolutionary Psychology. 18(4). 2130069069–2130069069. 1 indexed citations

Stoet, Gijsbert & David C. Geary. (2020). Gender differences in the pathways to higher education. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14073–14076. 60 indexed citations

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Stoet, Gijsbert & David C. Geary. (2019). A simplified approach to measuring national gender inequality. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0205349–e0205349. 39 indexed citations

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Chu, Felicia W., Kristy vanMarle, Mary K. Hoard, et al.. (2019). Preschool deficits in cardinal knowledge and executive function contribute to longer-term mathematical learning disability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 188. 104668–104668. 15 indexed citations

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Stoet, Gijsbert & David C. Geary. (2018). The Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education. Psychological Science. 29(4). 581–593. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bailey, Drew H., Lynn S. Fuchs, Jennifer K. Gilbert, David C. Geary, & Douglas Fuchs. (2018). Prevention: Necessary But Insufficient? A 2-Year Follow-Up of an Effective First-Grade Mathematics Intervention. Child Development. 91(2). 382–400. 23 indexed citations

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Geary, David C.. (2017). Acquisition of Complex Arithmetic Skills and Higher-Order Mathematics Concepts. Elsevier eBooks. 27 indexed citations

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Berch, Daniel B., et al.. (2016). Development of mathematical cognition ; neural substrates and genetic influences. Academic Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations

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Geary, David C.. (2013). El cerebro primitivo en las aulas modernas. 28–33. 1 indexed citations

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Byrd‐Craven, Jennifer, David C. Geary, Jacob M. Vigil, & Mary K. Hoard. (2007). One mate or two? Life history traits and reproductive variation in low-income women.. Acta Psychologica Sinica. 8 indexed citations

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DeSoto, M. Catherine, et al.. (2007). Investigating the Role of Hormones in Theory of Mind. North American journal of psychology. 9(3). 535. 7 indexed citations

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Geary, David C.. (2003). Sexual Selection and Human Life History. Advances in child development and behavior. 30. 41–101. 86 indexed citations

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Geary, David C., et al.. (1984). The Diagnostic Accuracy of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychologal Battery-Children's Revision for 9 to 12 Year Old Learning Disabled Children. School Psychology Review. 13(3). 375–380. 13 indexed citations

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