Vincent Ng

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Vincent Ng is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Vincent Ng has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Social Psychology, 6 papers in Clinical Psychology and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Vincent Ng's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (4 papers) and Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies (3 papers). Vincent Ng is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (4 papers) and Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies (3 papers). Vincent Ng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Singapore. Vincent Ng's co-authors include Louis Tay, Lauren Kuykendall, Andrew T. Jebb, Louis Hickman, Sang Eun Woo, Rachel Saef, Nigel Bosch, Martin E. P. Seligman, Herbert W. Marsh and Mengyang Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Vincent Ng

16 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.

2015 361 citations Lauren Kuykendall, Louis Tay et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019

2021 339 citations Andrew T. Jebb, Vincent Ng et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vincent Ng United States	12	428	246	196	119	110	17	1.1k
Andrew T. Jebb United States	12	447 1.0×	257 1.0×	153 0.8×	126 1.1×	157 1.4×	16	1.4k
Jocelyn H. Bolin United States	11	357 0.8×	370 1.5×	398 2.0×	174 1.5×	74 0.7×	23	1.3k
Amery D. Wu Canada	15	232 0.5×	199 0.8×	241 1.2×	87 0.7×	60 0.5×	37	1.1k
David Sharek United States	8	219 0.5×	422 1.7×	178 0.9×	112 0.9×	41 0.4×	10	1.2k
Justin A. DeSimone United States	13	329 0.8×	402 1.6×	247 1.3×	265 2.2×	44 0.4×	32	1.2k
Eunseong Cho South Korea	10	300 0.7×	315 1.3×	210 1.1×	224 1.9×	41 0.4×	35	1.6k
Diana Mîndrilă United States	9	265 0.6×	238 1.0×	223 1.1×	54 0.5×	50 0.5×	31	1.2k
John Adams United Kingdom	6	272 0.6×	227 0.9×	355 1.8×	92 0.8×	67 0.6×	10	1.1k
Amy Smith United States	12	534 1.2×	425 1.7×	106 0.5×	105 0.9×	32 0.3×	25	1.2k
Jonathan Nevitt United States	10	333 0.8×	283 1.2×	243 1.2×	137 1.2×	36 0.3×	13	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Vincent Ng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vincent Ng

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17 of 17 papers shown

Zhang, Nan, Mo Wang, Heng Xu, et al.. (2023). Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning. Personnel Psychology. 76(4). 1125–1159. 18 indexed citations

Wilson, Danielle, et al.. (2023). Conceptualizing “positive attributes” across psychological perspectives. Journal of Personality. 92(3). 683–696. 5 indexed citations

Wilson, Danielle, Vincent Ng, Jeff Foster, & Louis Tay. (2023). Character Traits Predict Health and Well-Being beyond Personality. Journal of Personality Assessment. 106(1). 116–126.

Yaden, David B., Cassondra Batz-Barbarich, Vincent Ng, et al.. (2022). A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies. 23(8). 4147–4163. 34 indexed citations

Tongeren, Daryl R. Van, Vincent Ng, Louis Hickman, & Louis Tay. (2022). Behavioral measures of humility: Part 1. Theoretical and methodological review. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 18(5). 711–721. 6 indexed citations

Tongeren, Daryl R. Van, Vincent Ng, Louis Hickman, & Louis Tay. (2022). Behavioral measures of humility: Part 2. Conceptual mapping and charting ways forward. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 18(5). 722–732. 3 indexed citations

Hickman, Louis, Rachel Saef, Vincent Ng, et al.. (2021). Developing and evaluating language‐based machine learning algorithms for inferring applicant personality in video interviews. Human Resource Management Journal. 34(2). 255–274. 34 indexed citations

Hickman, Louis, Nigel Bosch, Vincent Ng, et al.. (2021). Automated video interview personality assessments: Reliability, validity, and generalizability investigations.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 107(8). 1323–1351. 88 indexed citations

Jebb, Andrew T., Vincent Ng, & Louis Tay. (2021). A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 637547–637547. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ng, Vincent, Philseok Lee, Moon‐Ho Ringo Ho, et al.. (2020). The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Forced-Choice Format Character Measure: Testing the Thurstonian IRT Approach. Journal of Personality Assessment. 103(2). 224–237. 26 indexed citations

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Ng, Vincent & Louis Tay. (2020). Lost in Translation: The Construct Representation of Character Virtues. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 15(2). 309–326. 52 indexed citations

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Tay, Louis & Vincent Ng. (2018). Ideal Point Modeling of Non-cognitive Constructs: Review and Recommendations for Research. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2423–2423. 17 indexed citations

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Ng, Vincent, Louis Tay, & Lauren Kuykendall. (2017). The development and validation of a measure of character: The CIVIC. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 13(4). 346–372. 26 indexed citations

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Tay, Louis, Vincent Ng, Abish Malik, et al.. (2017). Big Data Visualizations in Organizational Science. Organizational Research Methods. 21(3). 660–688. 21 indexed citations

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Ng, Vincent, Mengyang Cao, Herbert W. Marsh, Louis Tay, & Martin E. P. Seligman. (2016). The factor structure of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): An item-level exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) bifactor analysis.. Psychological Assessment. 29(8). 1053–1058. 52 indexed citations

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Ng, Vincent, Sang Eun Woo, Louis Tay, & Jeff Foster. (2016). Examining Variability in Values Attributed to Culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 47(7). 981–996. 4 indexed citations

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Kuykendall, Lauren, Louis Tay, & Vincent Ng. (2015). Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.. Psychological Bulletin. 141(2). 364–403. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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