Klaus Oberauer

23.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
229 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Klaus Oberauer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Klaus Oberauer has authored 229 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 88 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 43 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Klaus Oberauer's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (131 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (83 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (39 papers). Klaus Oberauer is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (131 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (83 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (39 papers). Klaus Oberauer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Klaus Oberauer's co-authors include Stephan Lewandowsky, Oliver Wilhelm, Alessandra S. Souza, Heinz‐Martin Süß, Werner W. Wittmann, Gilles E. Gignac, Reinhold Kliegl, Claudia C. von Bastian, Laura Rerko and Ralf Schulze and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Klaus Oberauer

221 papers receiving 14.1k 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.

  1. Access to information in working memory: Exploring the focus of attention.
    2002 719 citations Klaus Oberauer Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition profile →
  2. Access to information in working memory: Exploring the focus of attention.
    2002 537 citations Klaus Oberauer Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition profile →
  3. The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science
    2013 430 citations Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer et al. profile →
  4. NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax
    2013 405 citations Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer et al. profile →
  5. Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review
    2019 305 citations Klaus Oberauer Journal of Cognition profile →
  6. Motivated Rejection of Science
    2016 244 citations Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer profile →
  7. Addressing the theory crisis in psychology
    2019 240 citations Klaus Oberauer, Stephan Lewandowsky Psychonomic Bulletin & Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Klaus Oberauer Switzerland 64 10.3k 5.4k 2.3k 1.5k 1.5k 229 14.6k
Richard D. Morey United States 36 6.6k 0.6× 2.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 782 0.5× 78 12.1k
Walter Schneider United States 30 8.5k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 3.1k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 756 0.5× 67 13.7k
Jeffrey N. Rouder United States 49 7.9k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 866 0.6× 132 14.5k
Harold Pashler United States 72 14.6k 1.4× 5.5k 1.0× 4.9k 2.1× 2.5k 1.6× 988 0.7× 185 23.2k
Oliver Wilhelm Germany 47 5.0k 0.5× 5.1k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 606 0.4× 206 11.3k
Janet Metcalfe United States 52 5.5k 0.5× 3.3k 0.6× 3.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 794 0.5× 122 10.4k
Asher Koriat Israel 51 7.3k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 4.5k 1.9× 1.8k 1.2× 906 0.6× 145 11.6k
Andrew R. A. Conway United States 36 8.7k 0.8× 6.5k 1.2× 4.1k 1.7× 1.3k 0.8× 364 0.2× 84 13.9k
Gordon D. A. Brown United Kingdom 50 5.1k 0.5× 1.9k 0.3× 3.1k 1.4× 1.2k 0.8× 923 0.6× 169 9.9k
F. Gregory Ashby United States 56 8.8k 0.8× 3.8k 0.7× 5.5k 2.4× 2.0k 1.3× 491 0.3× 168 15.2k

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All Works

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Oberauer, Klaus, et al.. (2025). Semantic representations in working memory: A computational model.. Psychological Review. 133(1). 1–40.
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Langerock, Naomi, et al.. (2024). The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations. Journal of Memory and Language. 140. 104558–104558. 5 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus, et al.. (2024). Testing the response suppression mechanism of working memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 51(2). 190–208. 1 indexed citations
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Vergauwe, Evie, Alessandra S. Souza, Naomi Langerock, & Klaus Oberauer. (2024). The effect of instructed refreshing on working memory: Is the memory boost a function of refreshing frequency or refreshing duration?. Memory & Cognition. 53(5). 1510–1522. 1 indexed citations
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Souza, Alessandra S., et al.. (2023). Repetition learning is neither a continuous nor an implicit process. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(16). e2218042120–e2218042120. 17 indexed citations
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Majerus, Steve, et al.. (2023). Does semantic similarity affect immediate memory for order? Usually not, but sometimes it does.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 50(1). 68–88. 4 indexed citations
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Mızrak, Eda, et al.. (2022). The semantic relatedness effect in serial recall: Deconfounding encoding and recall order. Journal of Memory and Language. 127. 104377–104377. 11 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus. (2019). Working Memory Capacity Limits Memory for Bindings. Journal of Cognition. 2(1). 40–40. 46 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus & Stephan Lewandowsky. (2019). Addressing the theory crisis in psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 26(5). 1596–1618. 240 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oberauer, Klaus. (2019). Working Memory and Attention – Response to Commentaries. Journal of Cognition. 2(1). 30–30. 3 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus, Stephan Lewandowsky, Edward Awh, et al.. (2018). Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.. Psychological Bulletin. 144(9). 885–958. 226 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus & Alessandra S. Souza. (2018). Data_&_Materials: Promoting visual long-term memories: When do we learn from repetitions of visuospatial arrays?. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Rey-Mermet, Alodie, Miriam Gade, & Klaus Oberauer. (2017). Should we stop thinking about inhibition? Searching for individual and age differences in inhibition ability.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 44(4). 501–526. 212 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus. (2013). The focus of attention in working memory – from metaphors to mechanisms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 71 indexed citations
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Jünger, Elisabeth, Reinhold Kliegl, & Klaus Oberauer. (2013). No Evidence for Feature Overwriting in Visual Working Memory. publish.UP (University of Potsdam). 1 indexed citations
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Ecker, Ullrich K. H., et al.. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 36(1). 170–189. 210 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus & Stephan Lewandowsky. (2008). Forgetting in immediate serial recall: Decay, temporal distinctiveness, or interference?. Psychological Review. 115(3). 544–576. 195 indexed citations
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Oberauer, Klaus & Reinhold Kliegl. (2006). A formal model of capacity limits in working memory. 4 indexed citations
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Weidenfeld, Andrea & Klaus Oberauer. (2003). Reasoning from Causal and Noncausal Conditionals: Testing an Integrated Framework. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 2 indexed citations

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