Roger E. Beaty

13.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
154 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Roger E. Beaty is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger E. Beaty has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 114 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roger E. Beaty's work include Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (113 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (32 papers) and Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function (31 papers). Roger E. Beaty is often cited by papers focused on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (113 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (32 papers) and Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function (31 papers). Roger E. Beaty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Austria. Roger E. Beaty's co-authors include Paul J. Silvia, Mathias Benedek, Emily C. Nusbaum, Daniel L. Schacter, Yoed N. Kenett, Alexander P. Christensen, Qunlin Chen, Emanuel Jauk, Andréas Fink and Jiang Qiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Roger E. Beaty

146 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

2015 632 citations Roger E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia et al. profile →
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

2018 478 citations Roger E. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett et al. profile →
Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production

2015 420 citations Roger E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia et al. profile →
The role of memory in creative ideation

2023 88 citations Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Associative thinking at the core of creativity

2023 82 citations Roger E. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Roger E. Beaty	5.9k	5.3k	1.4k	820	534	154	8.1k
Mathias Benedek	8.7k 1.5×	8.0k 1.5×	2.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	583 1.1×	160	12.6k
Aljoscha C. Neubauer	6.4k 1.1×	6.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	540 1.0×	158	10.8k
Emanuel Jauk	3.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.5×	962 0.7×	437 0.5×	201 0.4×	69	4.8k
Mark Beeman	4.0k 0.7×	5.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	404 0.8×	73	7.0k
John Kounios	2.5k 0.4×	4.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	515 1.0×	91	6.0k
Yoed N. Kenett	2.7k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	646 0.4×	567 0.7×	676 1.3×	121	4.2k
Emily C. Nusbaum	2.0k 0.3×	1.4k 0.3×	713 0.5×	302 0.4×	142 0.3×	32	2.7k
Jeremy R. Gray	4.4k 0.7×	6.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	395 0.7×	69	11.3k
Roland H. Grabner	1.9k 0.3×	3.5k 0.7×	643 0.4×	1.4k 1.7×	260 0.5×	117	5.4k
Edward M. Bowden	2.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.4×	595 0.4×	445 0.5×	304 0.6×	18	3.6k

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Diaz, Michèle T., et al.. (2025). Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood. Creativity Research Journal. 1–14. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Neural, genetic, and cognitive signatures of creativity. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1324–1324. 9 indexed citations

Patterson, John, et al.. (2024). Evaluating overinclusive thinking: Development and validation of the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT). Thinking Skills and Creativity. 56. 101726–101726. 1 indexed citations

Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2024). The role of semantic memory networks in crystallized intelligence and creative thinking ability. Learning and Individual Differences. 111. 102426–102426. 6 indexed citations

Kenett, Yoed N., et al.. (2024). Mapping the Memory Structure of High-Knowledge Students: A Longitudinal Semantic Network Analysis. Journal of Intelligence. 12(6). 56–56. 4 indexed citations

Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2024). The word–sentence–construction task versus the verbal fluency task: Capturing features of scientific creativity via semantic networks.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 1 indexed citations

Dennis, Nancy A., et al.. (2024). Enhancing creative divergent thinking in older adults with a semantic retrieval strategy. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition. 32(3). 449–458.

Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2024). Fostering creativity in science education reshapes semantic memory. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 53. 101593–101593. 6 indexed citations

Kenett, Yoed N., et al.. (2023). Convergent thinking and insight problem solving relate to semantic memory network structure. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 48. 101277–101277. 21 indexed citations

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Rafner, Janet, Roger E. Beaty, James C. Kaufman, Todd Lubart, & Jacob Sherson. (2023). Creativity in the age of generative AI. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(11). 1836–1838. 62 indexed citations

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Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2023). Age differences in semantic network structure: Acquiring knowledge shapes semantic memory.. Psychology and Aging. 38(2). 87–102. 23 indexed citations

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Rafner, Janet, Qian Janice Wang, Carsten Bergenholtz, et al.. (2023). Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking. Creativity Research Journal. 35(4). 763–782. 3 indexed citations

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Silvia, Paul J., et al.. (2022). The creative mind in daily life: How cognitive and affective experiences relate to creative thinking and behavior.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 19(1). 150–164. 12 indexed citations

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Silvia, Paul J., Roger E. Beaty, Emily Frith, et al.. (2021). Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 39. 100797–100797. 21 indexed citations

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Silvia, Paul J. & Roger E. Beaty. (2021). When Figurative Language Goes off the Rails and under the Bus: Fluid Intelligence, Openness to Experience, and the Production of Poor Metaphors. Journal of Intelligence. 9(1). 2–2. 6 indexed citations

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Beaty, Roger E., et al.. (2021). Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study. Creativity Research Journal. 34(2). 145–158. 15 indexed citations

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Frith, Emily, Michael J. Kane, Matthew S. Welhaf, et al.. (2021). Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking. Creativity Research Journal. 33(2). 138–157. 49 indexed citations

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Smith, Anna, et al.. (2020). Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20190694–20190694. 20 indexed citations

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Maillet, David, Roger E. Beaty, Areeba Adnan, et al.. (2019). Aging and the wandering brain: Age-related differences in the neural correlates of stimulus-independent thoughts. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223981–e0223981. 14 indexed citations

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Maillet, David, Roger E. Beaty, Dayna R. Touron, et al.. (2018). Age-related differences in mind-wandering in daily life.. Psychology and Aging. 33(4). 643–653. 55 indexed citations

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