Moritz Heene

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Moritz Heene is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Moritz Heene has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Moritz Heene's work include Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (14 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (9 papers) and Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques (7 papers). Moritz Heene is often cited by papers focused on Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (14 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (9 papers) and Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques (7 papers). Moritz Heene collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Moritz Heene's co-authors include Christopher J. Ferguson, Markus Bühner, Matthias Ziegler, Sven Hilbert, Christian Geiser, Tobias Koch, Michael Eid, Dieter Frey, Peter Fischer and Joachim I. Krueger and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Individual Differences and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Moritz Heene

39 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.

2011 607 citations Peter Fischer, Joachim I. Krueger et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories

2012 404 citations Christopher J. Ferguson, Moritz Heene Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatized Naming as Longitudinal Predictors of Reading in Five Alphabetic Orthographies with Varying Degrees of Consistency

2018 213 citations H. Harald Freudenthaler, Moritz Heene et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Moritz Heene	829	683	555	529	516	44	2.9k
Jessica Kay Flake	1.1k 1.3×	835 1.2×	629 1.1×	438 0.8×	514 1.0×	36	2.8k
Patricia É. Brosseau-Liard	479 0.6×	702 1.0×	447 0.8×	660 1.2×	232 0.4×	25	2.5k
Christian Geiser	1.1k 1.4×	870 1.3×	501 0.9×	1.1k 2.1×	283 0.5×	79	3.9k
Keenan A. Pituch	413 0.5×	594 0.9×	518 0.9×	873 1.7×	623 1.2×	81	3.7k
Margaret E. Beier	1.4k 1.6×	608 0.9×	329 0.6×	301 0.6×	877 1.7×	87	3.6k
Karl Schweizer	1.3k 1.5×	540 0.8×	196 0.4×	355 0.7×	666 1.3×	195	2.8k
Mark L. Davison	536 0.6×	597 0.9×	356 0.6×	569 1.1×	302 0.6×	144	3.2k
Jaap van Heerden	682 0.8×	464 0.7×	323 0.6×	460 0.9×	303 0.6×	19	2.3k
Ulrich Schroeders	935 1.1×	555 0.8×	252 0.5×	394 0.7×	158 0.3×	77	2.1k
Susana Urbina	1.6k 1.9×	609 0.9×	340 0.6×	485 0.9×	359 0.7×	15	3.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moritz Heene

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Moritz Heene. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Moritz Heene based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Moritz Heene. Moritz Heene is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Sailer, Michael, Maximilian Sailer, Matthias Stadler, et al.. (2025). ASSESSRA—A Case-Based Approach for the Assessment of Students’ Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Skills. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. 44(1). 3–19.

Heene, Moritz, et al.. (2025). A Practical Guide to Using SEM Forests for Specification Search in Structural Equation Modeling. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 33(1). 145–156.

Uher, Jana, Jan Ketil Arnulf, Paul Barrett, et al.. (2025). Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs). Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1553028–1553028. 1 indexed citations

Heine, Jörg-Henrik & Moritz Heene. (2024). Measurement and Mind: Unveiling the Self-Delusion of Metrification in Psychology. Measurement Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives. 23(3). 213–241. 4 indexed citations

Opitz, Ansgar, Moritz Heene, & Frank Fischer. (2017). Measuring scientific reasoning – a review of test instruments. Educational Research and Evaluation. 23(3-4). 78–101. 74 indexed citations

Baghaei, Purya, Takuya Yanagida, & Moritz Heene. (2017). Development of a Descriptive Fit Statistic for the Rasch Model. North American journal of psychology. 19(1). 155. 7 indexed citations

Schönemann, Peter H. & Moritz Heene. (2017). WITHDRAWN. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).

Bühner, Markus, et al.. (2017). The Impact of Symmetry: Explaining Contradictory Results Concerning Working Memory, Reasoning, and Complex Problem Solving. Journal of Intelligence. 5(2). 22–22. 9 indexed citations

Eid, Michael, Christian Geiser, Tobias Koch, & Moritz Heene. (2016). Anomalous results in G-factor models: Explanations and alternatives.. Psychological Methods. 22(3). 541–562. 288 indexed citations

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Aguilar‐Raab, Corina, et al.. (2015). Assessing Drug Consumption Behavior With the Heidelberger Drogenbogen (Heidelberg Drug Scales): Reliabilities, Validities, and Cut-Off Criteria. Substance Use & Misuse. 50(13). 1638–1649.

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Heene, Moritz, et al.. (2015). What can the Real World do for simulation studies? A comparison of exploratory methods. Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen). 3 indexed citations

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Schönbrodt, Felix D., Markus Maier, Moritz Heene, & Michael Zehetleitner. (2015). Voluntary commitment to research transparency. 22 indexed citations

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Heene, Moritz, James Coyne, Gregory Francis, Phil Maguire, & Rebecca Maguire. (2014). Crisis in Cognitive Science? Rise of the Undead Theories. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1 indexed citations

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Demmelmair, Hans, Wolfgang Peißner, Diego Moretti, et al.. (2014). Three-month B vitamin supplementation in pre-school children affects folate status and homocysteine, but not cognitive performance. European Journal of Nutrition. 53(7). 1445–1456. 9 indexed citations

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Heene, Moritz. (2013). Additive conjoint measurement and the resistance toward falsifiability in psychology. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 246–246. 19 indexed citations

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Benedek, Mathias, et al.. (2012). Differential effects of cognitive inhibition and intelligence on creativity. Personality and Individual Differences. 53(4). 480–485. 247 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Christopher J. & Moritz Heene. (2012). A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 7(6). 555–561. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heene, Moritz, Sven Hilbert, Clemens Draxler, Matthias Ziegler, & Markus Bühner. (2011). Masking misfit in confirmatory factor analysis by increasing unique variances: A cautionary note on the usefulness of cutoff values of fit indices.. Psychological Methods. 16(3). 319–336. 308 indexed citations

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Fischer, Peter, Joachim I. Krueger, Tobias Greitemeyer, et al.. (2011). The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.. Psychological Bulletin. 137(4). 517–537. 607 indexed citations breakdown →

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Papousek, Ilona, Kai Ruggeri, Daniel Macher, et al.. (2011). Psychometric Evaluation and Experimental Validation of the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment. 94(1). 82–91. 63 indexed citations

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