William Ray Smith

490 total citations
8 papers, 306 citations indexed

About

William Ray Smith is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Ray Smith has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 306 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in William Ray Smith's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (3 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 papers). William Ray Smith is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (3 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 papers). William Ray Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Ray Smith's co-authors include Mark A. Runco, Gayle T. Dow, George W. Rebok, Mary Anne Alvin, Sara W. Smith, Susan E. Hall, Steven M. Wilson, Kay Bathurst, Scott P. Robertson and Arthur C. Graesser and has published in prestigious journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Intelligence and Creativity Research Journal.

In The Last Decade

William Ray Smith

8 papers receiving 274 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Ray Smith United States 7 238 109 91 48 41 8 306
Philip M. Clark United States 7 144 0.6× 96 0.9× 46 0.5× 58 1.2× 24 0.6× 31 279
María Ángeles González Spain 11 152 0.6× 95 0.9× 124 1.4× 39 0.8× 12 0.3× 39 310
S. William Ives United States 3 169 0.7× 66 0.6× 38 0.4× 43 0.9× 45 1.1× 4 251
Richard E. Ripple United States 11 271 1.1× 94 0.9× 92 1.0× 69 1.4× 27 0.7× 34 423
Olivier Houdé France 9 116 0.5× 172 1.6× 124 1.4× 54 1.1× 36 0.9× 12 388
Günseli Oral Türkiye 4 215 0.9× 51 0.5× 41 0.5× 54 1.1× 31 0.8× 9 288
Margaret E. Webb Australia 9 278 1.2× 208 1.9× 47 0.5× 45 0.9× 27 0.7× 12 407
Francine Smolucha United States 7 204 0.9× 105 1.0× 73 0.8× 34 0.7× 21 0.5× 16 398
Garnet W. Millar United States 5 255 1.1× 88 0.8× 61 0.7× 53 1.1× 35 0.9× 7 313
J. Elliott Janney 2 186 0.8× 58 0.5× 28 0.3× 46 1.0× 20 0.5× 2 260

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Ray Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Ray Smith

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All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Runco, Mark A., Gayle T. Dow, & William Ray Smith. (2006). Information, Experience, and Divergent Thinking: An Empirical Test. Creativity Research Journal. 18(3). 269–277. 59 indexed citations
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Wilson, Steven M., et al.. (1995). Reaction time (RT) and IQ: Shape of the task complexity function. Personality and Individual Differences. 18(3). 339–345. 15 indexed citations
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Bathurst, Kay, et al.. (1993). Hick's law, IQ, and singularity or specificity of mind: A psychometric analysis. Personality and Individual Differences. 15(2). 129–135. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, William Ray, et al.. (1992). Coding tests as measures of IQ: Cognition or motivation?. Personality and Individual Differences. 13(1). 25–29. 6 indexed citations
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Runco, Mark A. & William Ray Smith. (1992). Interpersonal and intrapersonal evaluations of creative ideas. Personality and Individual Differences. 13(3). 295–302. 134 indexed citations
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Smith, William Ray, et al.. (1988). The relationship between speed of information processing as measured by timed paper-and-pencil tests and psychometric intelligence. Intelligence. 12(1). 17–25. 32 indexed citations
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Smith, Sara W., George W. Rebok, William Ray Smith, Susan E. Hall, & Mary Anne Alvin. (1983). Adult age differences in the use of story structure in delayed free recall. Experimental Aging Research. 9(3). 191–195. 36 indexed citations
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Graesser, Arthur C., et al.. (1978). A natural inquiry into the national enquirer: Self‐induced versus task‐induced reading comprehension∗. Discourse Processes. 1(4). 355–372. 17 indexed citations

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