Gabriel Nagy

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Gabriel Nagy is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabriel Nagy has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 37 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Gabriel Nagy's work include Sociology and Education Studies (20 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (19 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (14 papers). Gabriel Nagy is often cited by papers focused on Sociology and Education Studies (20 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (19 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (14 papers). Gabriel Nagy collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Gabriel Nagy's co-authors include Ulrich Trautwein, Oliver Lüdtke, Jürgen Baumert, Martin Brunner, Oliver Wilhelm, Olaf Köller, Benjamin Nagengast, Herbert W. Marsh, Jan Retelsdorf and Brent W. Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Gabriel Nagy

85 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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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.

A Tutorial on Hierarchically Structured Constructs

2011 378 citations Martin Brunner, Gabriel Nagy et al. profile →
Probing for the multiplicative term in modern expectancy–value theory: A latent interaction modeling study.

2012 368 citations Ulrich Trautwein, Benjamin Nagengast et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gabriel Nagy Germany	27	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	805	628	90	3.7k
Jiesi Guo Australia	30	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	864 1.1×	717 1.1×	80	4.1k
Sara J. Finney United States	27	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	867 1.1×	609 1.0×	80	3.8k
Franzis Preckel Germany	40	2.9k 1.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	715 0.9×	417 0.7×	153	5.0k
A. Katrin Arens Germany	25	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	968 0.7×	521 0.6×	268 0.4×	56	2.7k
Alexander Seeshing Yeung Australia	37	2.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	2.5k 1.9×	552 0.7×	544 0.9×	175	5.1k
Theresa Dicke Australia	23	755 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	532 0.7×	401 0.6×	64	3.0k
Oliver Dickhäuser Germany	35	1.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	533 0.8×	146	4.3k
Carolyn MacCann Australia	35	1.1k 0.7×	2.4k 1.8×	916 0.7×	1.8k 2.2×	562 0.9×	108	4.5k
Chiungjung Huang Taiwan	20	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	606 0.8×	988 1.6×	31	2.9k
John Tisak United States	25	724 0.4×	962 0.7×	677 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	585 0.9×	55	3.4k

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Ulitzsch, Esther, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Oliver Lüdtke, et al.. (2025). Investigating the effect of experience sampling study design on careless and insufficient effort responding identified with a screen-time-based mixture model.. Psychological Assessment. 37(8). 347–359.

Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2025). Individuals’ Interests in Vocational Environments with Activity Opportunities That Are Inconsistent with Holland’s Calculus Hypothesis. Journal of Career Development. 52(4). 427–448. 1 indexed citations

Baumert, Jürgen, Michael Becker, Malte Jansen, Gabriel Nagy, & Olaf Köller. (2025). Development of life satisfaction in immigrant youth: The role of transition decisions and cultural identification.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 129(3). 576–601.

Wille, Bart, et al.. (2025). Linking personality traits to vocational interest profiles via the circumplex: Research synthesis and new applications. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 163. 104191–104191.

Retelsdorf, Jan, et al.. (2024). Correlated change in habitual and situational reading motivation. European Journal of Psychology of Education. 39(3). 2827–2847.

Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2023). We've come full circle: The universality of People-Things and Data-Ideas as core dimensions of vocational interests. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 145. 103897–103897. 3 indexed citations

Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2022). Die Bedeutung der Interessenkongruenz für die Schulzufriedenheit in der beruflichen Oberstufe. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. 25(3). 659–686. 3 indexed citations

Nagy, Gabriel, Esther Ulitzsch, & Marlit Annalena Lindner. (2022). The role of rapid guessing and test‐taking persistence in modelling test‐taking engagement. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 39(3). 751–766. 21 indexed citations

Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2021). Stability and change in vocational interest profiles and interest congruence over the course of vocational education and training. European Journal of Personality. 35(4). 534–556. 16 indexed citations

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Nagy, Gabriel & Esther Ulitzsch. (2021). A Multilevel Mixture IRT Framework for Modeling Response Times as Predictors or Indicators of Response Engagement in IRT Models. Educational and Psychological Measurement. 82(5). 845–879. 29 indexed citations

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Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2019). Integrating covariates into circumplex structures: an extension procedure for Browne’s circular stochastic process model. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 54(3). 404–428. 10 indexed citations

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Nagy, Gabriel, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of the dimensions of the spherical model of vocational interests in the long and short version of the Personal Globe Inventory. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 112. 1–16. 5 indexed citations

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Lindner, Marlit Annalena, Oliver Lüdtke, & Gabriel Nagy. (2019). The Onset of Rapid-Guessing Behavior Over the Course of Testing Time: A Matter of Motivation and Cognitive Resources. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1533–1533. 35 indexed citations

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Nagy, Gabriel, Benjamin Nagengast, Andreas Frey, Michael Becker, & Norman Rose. (2018). A multilevel study of position effects in PISA achievement tests: student- and school-level predictors in the German tracked school system. Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice. 26(4). 422–443. 19 indexed citations

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Köller, Olaf, Jan Retelsdorf, & Gabriel Nagy. (2017). Non scholae, sed vitae discimus: Schulische Bildung als Kernressource für eine erfolgreiche berufliche Bildung. Unterrichtswissenschaft. 1 indexed citations

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Köller, Olaf, Jan Retelsdorf, & Gabriel Nagy. (2017). Lernausgangslagen Auszubildender in Berufen mit hohen mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Anforderungen. Unterrichtswissenschaft. 2 indexed citations

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Nagy, Gabriel, Martin Brunner, Oliver Lüdtke, & Samuel Greiff. (2016). Extension Procedures for Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The Journal of Experimental Education. 85(4). 574–596. 12 indexed citations

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Greiff, Samuel, Katarina Krkovic, & Gabriel Nagy. (2014). The systematic variation of task characteristics facilitates the understanding of task difficulty: A cognitive diagnostic modeling approach to complex problem solving. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg). 56(1). 83. 11 indexed citations

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Lüdtke, Oliver, Brent W. Roberts, Ulrich Trautwein, & Gabriel Nagy. (2011). A random walk down university avenue: Life paths, life events, and personality trait change at the transition to university life.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101(3). 620–637. 330 indexed citations

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Scholz, Urte, Gabriel Nagy, Wiebke Göhner, Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, & Matthias Kliegel. (2009). Changes in self-regulatory cognitions as predictors of changes in smoking and nutrition behaviour. Psychology and Health. 24(5). 545–561. 108 indexed citations

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