Edgar Erdfelder

106.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
145 papers, 76.9k citations indexed

About

Edgar Erdfelder is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Edgar Erdfelder has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 76.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Edgar Erdfelder's work include Memory Processes and Influences (58 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (29 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (28 papers). Edgar Erdfelder is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (58 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (29 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (28 papers). Edgar Erdfelder collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Edgar Erdfelder's co-authors include Axel Buchner, Franz Faul, Albert-Georg Lang, Morten Moshagen, Ute J. Bayen, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Meike Kroneisen, Kevin S. Murnane, Monika Undorf and Lena Nadarevic and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Edgar Erdfelder

135 papers receiving 74.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

2007 45.5k citations Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder et al. Behavior Research Methods profile →
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses

2009 24.1k citations Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder et al. Behavior Research Methods profile →
GPOWER: A general power analysis program

1996 3.6k citations Edgar Erdfelder, Franz Faul et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Edgar Erdfelder	16.8k	14.5k	12.3k	10.9k	10.8k	145	76.9k
Franz Faul	15.3k 0.9×	14.2k 1.0×	12.1k 1.0×	10.4k 1.0×	10.1k 0.9×	46	74.2k
Axel Buchner	18.7k 1.1×	16.0k 1.1×	12.3k 1.0×	10.9k 1.0×	11.8k 1.1×	225	79.5k
Keith E. Muller	10.3k 0.6×	13.9k 1.0×	18.8k 1.5×	11.1k 1.0×	10.3k 1.0×	185	100.4k
Larry V. Hedges	7.0k 0.4×	7.3k 0.5×	10.9k 0.9×	7.0k 0.6×	7.2k 0.7×	275	74.9k
Robert Rosenthal	8.2k 0.5×	14.8k 1.0×	11.3k 0.9×	10.9k 1.0×	9.3k 0.9×	418	58.2k
Barbara G. Tabachnick	4.8k 0.3×	17.2k 1.2×	18.1k 1.5×	13.2k 1.2×	7.5k 0.7×	68	74.8k
Jacob Cohen	7.8k 0.5×	12.8k 0.9×	17.1k 1.4×	10.2k 0.9×	8.5k 0.8×	113	96.0k
Kristopher J. Preacher	5.9k 0.4×	23.8k 1.6×	20.5k 1.7×	22.4k 2.1×	11.8k 1.1×	121	83.9k
Jacob Cohen	14.4k 0.9×	22.5k 1.5×	29.4k 2.4×	17.4k 1.6×	15.4k 1.4×	87	134.1k
Lee Anna Clark	8.1k 0.5×	21.0k 1.4×	31.5k 2.6×	8.6k 0.8×	23.3k 2.2×	253	67.5k

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Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2025). Waking rest during retention facilitates memory consolidation, but so does social media use. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 5884–5884.

Kamp, Siri‐Maria, et al.. (2025). Event-related potentials uncover the neurocognitive encoding and retrieval mechanisms of animacy effects in episodic memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 222. 108112–108112.

Kamp, Siri‐Maria, et al.. (2024). The survival processing effect in episodic memory in older adults and stroke patients. Acta Psychologica. 248. 104390–104390.

Singmann, Henrik, Daniel W. Heck, Edgar Erdfelder, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Robustness of Parameter Estimates in Cognitive Models: A Meta-Analytic Review of Multinomial Processing Tree Models Across the Multiverse of Estimation Methods. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).

Singmann, Henrik, Daniel W. Heck, Edgar Erdfelder, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the robustness of parameter estimates in cognitive models: A meta-analytic review of multinomial processing tree models across the multiverse of estimation methods.. Psychological Bulletin. 150(8). 965–1003. 4 indexed citations

Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2024). Does sleep benefit source memory? Investigating 12-h retention intervals with a multinomial modeling approach. Memory & Cognition. 53(2). 467–493. 2 indexed citations

Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2023). Cognitive Processes Underlying the Weapon Identification Task: A Comparison of Models Accounting for Both Response Frequencies and Response Times. Social Cognition. 41(2). 137–164. 1 indexed citations

Heck, Daniel W., et al.. (2022). Recognition-memory models and ranking tasks: The importance of auxiliary assumptions for tests of the two-high-threshold model. Journal of Memory and Language. 127. 104356–104356. 2 indexed citations

Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2022). Alcohol-Induced Retrograde Facilitation?. Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie). 69(6). 335–350. 1 indexed citations

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Kroneisen, Meike, et al.. (2020). How can I use it? The role of functional fixedness in the survival-processing paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28(1). 324–332. 12 indexed citations

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Nadarevic, Lena & Edgar Erdfelder. (2019). More evidence against the Spinozan model: Cognitive load diminishes memory for “true” feedback. Memory & Cognition. 47(7). 1386–1400. 11 indexed citations

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Jung, Dominik, Edgar Erdfelder, & Florian Glaser. (2018). Nudged to Win: Designing Robo-Advisory to Overcome Decision Inertia. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 11 indexed citations

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Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2017). Further evidence for the memory state heuristic: Recognition latency predictions for binary inferences. Judgment and Decision Making. 12(6). 537–552. 3 indexed citations

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Undorf, Monika & Edgar Erdfelder. (2014). The relatedness effect on judgments of learning: A closer look at the contribution of processing fluency. Memory & Cognition. 43(4). 647–658. 78 indexed citations

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Erdfelder, Edgar, et al.. (2011). Threshold models of recognition and the recognition heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making. 6(1). 7–22. 32 indexed citations

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Bernstein, Daniel M., et al.. (2009). The revelation effect for autobiographical memory: A mixture model analysis. Arca (British Columbia Electronic Library Network). 11 indexed citations

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Faul, Franz, Edgar Erdfelder, Axel Buchner, & Albert-Georg Lang. (2009). Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses. Behavior Research Methods. 41(4). 1149–1160. 24116 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stahl, Christoph, Karl Christoph Klauer, & Edgar Erdfelder. (2008). Matching bias in the selection task is not eliminated by explicit negations. Thinking & Reasoning. 14(3). 281–303. 10 indexed citations

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Klauer, Karl Christoph, Christoph Stahl, & Edgar Erdfelder. (2007). The abstract selection task: New data and an almost comprehensive model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 33(4). 680–703. 47 indexed citations

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Faul, Franz, et al.. (2007). G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behavior Research Methods. 39(2). 175–191. 45527 indexed citations breakdown →

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