Yulia Kovas

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Yulia Kovas is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Yulia Kovas has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 43 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 41 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Yulia Kovas's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (46 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (41 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (26 papers). Yulia Kovas is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (46 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (41 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (26 papers). Yulia Kovas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and United States. Yulia Kovas's co-authors include Robert Plomin, Philip S. Dale, Stephen A. Petrill, Claire M. A. Haworth, Kaili Rimfeld, Nicole Harlaar, Brian Butterworth, Lee A. Thompson, Sara A. Hart and Maria Grazia Tosto and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Yulia Kovas

143 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

True grit and genetics: Predicting academic achievement from personality.

2016 277 citations Kaili Rimfeld, Yulia Kovas et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yulia Kovas United Kingdom	39	1.8k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	710	151	4.8k
Stephen A. Petrill United States	48	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	784 1.1×	170	7.2k
Nicole Harlaar United States	34	972 0.5×	849 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	402 0.4×	405 0.6×	67	3.4k
Kevin S. McGrew United States	29	2.3k 1.3×	878 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	900 0.8×	431 0.6×	97	4.4k
Irene C. Mammarella Italy	40	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	656 0.9×	144	4.4k
Richard Lynn United Kingdom	39	3.4k 1.9×	759 0.5×	806 0.6×	491 0.4×	853 1.2×	244	5.6k
Sara A. Hart United States	30	965 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	904 0.8×	395 0.6×	122	2.9k
Michael S. C. Thomas United Kingdom	39	734 0.4×	713 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	463 0.4×	376 0.5×	175	5.3k
John H. Kranzler United States	28	1.5k 0.8×	662 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	386 0.3×	547 0.8×	78	3.1k
Claire M. A. Haworth United Kingdom	35	1.2k 0.7×	788 0.5×	511 0.4×	312 0.3×	443 0.6×	107	5.2k
Frank M. Spinath Germany	46	3.2k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	314 0.3×	1.8k 2.5×	163	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yulia Kovas

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Papageorgiou, Kostas Α., et al.. (2025). Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Investigation of the Network of Dark Triad and Big Five Personality Traits, Resilience and Anxiety. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).

Likhanov, Maxim, et al.. (2025). That which we call anxiety: Differences in resting state brain connectivity for two commonly used anxiety measures - STAI-T and GAD-7.

Chapman, Robert M., et al.. (2024). Are we ready for the genomic era? Insights from judges and lawyers. New Genetics and Society. 43(1). 1 indexed citations

Likhanov, Maxim, et al.. (2023). Persistent gender differences in spatial ability, even in STEM experts. Heliyon. 9(4). e15247–e15247. 8 indexed citations

Chapman, Robert M., et al.. (2023). Consensus too soon: judges’ and lawyers’ views on genetic information use. New Genetics and Society. 42(1). 2 indexed citations

Казанцева, А. В., Р. Н. Мустафин, Zalina Takhirova, et al.. (2022). The role of inflammatory system genes in individual differences in nonverbal intelligence. Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding. 26(2). 179–187.

Likhanov, Maxim, et al.. (2022). This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 92(4). 1597–1620. 4 indexed citations

Мустафин, Р. Н., А. В. Казанцева, Yulia Kovas, & Э. К. Хуснутдинова. (2022). Role Of Retroelements In The Development Of COVID-19 Neurological Consequences. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(3). 3 indexed citations

Luo, Yu L. L., Yulia Kovas, Lizhong Wang, et al.. (2022). Sex differences in the Dark Triad are sensitive to socioeconomic conditions: the adaptive value of narcissism in the UK, Greece, and China. Current Psychology. 42(26). 22436–22448. 14 indexed citations

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Sedikides, Constantine, et al.. (2021). The Tri-Directional Framework of Parent and Offspring Traits and Outcomes: A systematic review and critical synthesis of influencing factors. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations

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Likhanov, Maxim, et al.. (2020). Ordinary extraordinary: Elusive group differences in personality and psychological difficulties between STEM‐gifted adolescents and their peers. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 91(1). 78–100. 22 indexed citations

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Malanchini, Margherita, Kaili Rimfeld, Zhe Wang, et al.. (2020). Genetic factors underlie the association between anxiety, attitudes and performance in mathematics. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 12–12. 22 indexed citations

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Stumm, Sophie von, Emily Smith‐Woolley, Rosa Cheesman, et al.. (2020). School quality ratings are weak predictors of students’ achievement and well‐being. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62(3). 339–348. 13 indexed citations

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Papageorgiou, Kostas Α., et al.. (2018). Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13653–13653. 19 indexed citations

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Smith‐Woolley, Emily, Jean‐Baptiste Pingault, Saskia Selzam, et al.. (2018). Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them. npj Science of Learning. 3(1). 3–3. 43 indexed citations

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Skalny, Anatoly V., et al.. (2018). The impact of lifestyle factors on age-related differences in hair trace element content in pregnant women in the third trimester [pdf]. Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Technologia Alimentaria. 17(1). 83–89. 4 indexed citations

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Tosto, Maria Grazia, Stephen A. Petrill, Sergey Malykh, et al.. (2017). Number sense and mathematics: Which, when and how?. Developmental Psychology. 53(10). 1924–1939. 25 indexed citations

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Kovas, Yulia, Sergey Malykh, & Darya Gaysina. (2016). Behavioural Genetics for Education. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Rimfeld, Kaili, Yulia Kovas, Philip S. Dale, & Robert Plomin. (2016). True grit and genetics: Predicting academic achievement from personality.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111(5). 780–789. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kovas, Yulia, et al.. (2007). Generalist Genes, Specialist Environments and the Internet Generation: Etiology of Learning Abilities Using Web-based Testing at 10 Years. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 10. 27. 5 indexed citations

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