Edwin G. Boring

16.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Edwin G. Boring is a scholar working on General Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Edwin G. Boring has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in General Psychology, 3 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 2 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Edwin G. Boring's work include Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (17 papers), Social Representations and Identity (2 papers) and Relativity and Gravitational Theory (1 paper). Edwin G. Boring is often cited by papers focused on Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (17 papers), Social Representations and Identity (2 papers) and Relativity and Gravitational Theory (1 paper). Edwin G. Boring collaborates with scholars based in United States. Edwin G. Boring's co-authors include James J. Gibson, R. J. Herrnstein, Herbert Butterfield, Donald T. Campbell, Robert I. Watson, Ward Edwards, Wayne Dennis, J. C. Flügel, Clifford T. Morgan and Stanley Cobb and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Edwin G. Boring

50 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems

1967 1.9k citations Edwin G. Boring et al. The American Journal of Psychology profile →
The perception of the visual world.

1951 555 citations Edwin G. Boring Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edwin G. Boring United States	16	1.6k	714	707	442	340	59	3.5k
Julian Hochberg United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	781 1.1×	749 1.1×	384 0.9×	381 1.1×	80	3.3k
D. O. Hebb Canada	21	3.6k 2.2×	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	737 1.7×	177 0.5×	51	6.9k
Wilson P. Tanner United States	14	1.6k 1.0×	486 0.7×	456 0.6×	214 0.5×	126 0.4×	20	2.8k
Michel Treisman United Kingdom	35	3.5k 2.2×	1.7k 2.4×	595 0.8×	307 0.7×	107 0.3×	100	5.1k
Charles K. West United States	12	2.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.9×	1.3k 1.9×	740 1.7×	413 1.2×	43	5.3k
Richard L Gregory United Kingdom	32	2.8k 1.7×	620 0.9×	714 1.0×	178 0.4×	453 1.3×	145	4.4k
Ralph Norman Haber United States	35	2.7k 1.7×	1.8k 2.5×	869 1.2×	835 1.9×	514 1.5×	107	5.1k
Howard E. Gruber United States	21	706 0.4×	911 1.3×	781 1.1×	627 1.4×	64 0.2×	59	2.7k
William Epstein United States	34	3.4k 2.1×	1.3k 1.8×	1.4k 2.0×	1.2k 2.7×	298 0.9×	179	5.6k
Robert E. Shaw United States	26	1.2k 0.7×	548 0.8×	645 0.9×	478 1.1×	352 1.0×	76	3.2k

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Boring, Edwin G., et al.. (1968). Important psychologists, 1600–1967. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 4(4). 303–315. 50 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1967). Titchener's Experimentalists. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 3(4). 315–325. 15 indexed citations

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Herrnstein, R. J. & Edwin G. Boring. (1965). A source book in the history of psychology. Harvard University Press eBooks. 147 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G., et al.. (1963). History, psychology, and science: selected papers.. J. Wiley eBooks. 73 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1963). The Social Stimulus to Creativity. Science. 142(3593). 622–623. 2 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1962). On the Moon Illusion. Science. 137(3533). 902–906. 6 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1961). CP SPEAKS. Contemporary Psychology. 6(1). 15–15. 1 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1961). CP SPEAKS. Contemporary Psychology. 6(8). 267–268. 1 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1960). CP SPEAKS. Contemporary Psychology. 5(4). 124–125. 1 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1957). When Is Human Behavior Predetermined. 84(4). 189–196. 11 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1956). The Truth About the Truth. Contemporary Psychology. 1(9). 263–265. 12 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1955). Dual Role of the Zeitgeist in Scientific Creativity. 80(2). 101–106. 20 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1954). The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I. The formative years and the great discoveries: 1856-1900.. Psychological Bulletin. 51(4). 433–437. 12 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1953). Elementist Going Up. (Book Reviews: The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology). 76(3). 182–183.

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1953). Comments on the Proposal for a Psychological Museum.. American Psychologist. 8(4). 166–167.

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Dennis, Wayne & Edwin G. Boring. (1952). The founding of the APA.. American Psychologist. 7(3). 95–97. 8 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1952). Visual perception as invariance.. Psychological Review. 59(2). 141–148. 40 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1951). Gestalt psychology: Its nature and significance.. Psychological Bulletin. 48(2). 177–180. 9 indexed citations

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Boring, Edwin G.. (1951). The book review.. PubMed. 64(2). 281–3. 6 indexed citations

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Edwards, Ward & Edwin G. Boring. (1951). What Is Emmert's Law?. The American Journal of Psychology. 64(3). 416–416. 8 indexed citations

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