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Maggie E. Toplak

Maggie E. Toplak

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
13020
World Ranking
6063
National Ranking
414

Maggie E. Toplak publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 105 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Maggie E. Toplak D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maggie E. Toplak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maggie E. Toplak is affiliated with York University in Canada and has focused their research primarily in the fields of psychology, decision sciences, and social sciences. Their work addresses various aspects of decision-making, cognitive abilities, child development, and misinformation.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Decision Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, they have contributed to subfields such as:

  • General Decision Sciences
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science

Toplak's research addresses a range of topics, with significant focus on:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills

Several recent papers reflect these interests, including:

  • "Resistance to cognitive biases: Longitudinal trajectories and associations with cognitive abilities and academic achievement across development," published in 2020 in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • "An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes," published in 2020 in Thinking & Reasoning
  • "Actively Open-Minded Thinking and Its Measurement," published in 2023 in Journal of Intelligence
  • "A Review of Canadian Diagnosed ADHD Prevalence and Incidence Estimates Published in the Past Decade," published in 2022 in Brain Sciences
  • "Callous-Unemotional Traits and Executive Functions are Unique Correlates of Disruptive Behavior in Children," published in 2020 in Developmental Neuropsychology

Toplak has frequently collaborated with a number of coauthors, notably including:

  • Keith E. Stanovich
  • Jala Rizeq
  • David B. Flora
  • Ravi de Costa
  • Ida Ferrara

Their scholarly output is often published in venues such as:

  • Thinking & Reasoning
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Intelligence

Best Publications

  • Practitioner Review: Do performance-based measures and ratings of executive function assess the same construct?

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • The Cognitive Reflection Test as a predictor of performance on heuristics-and-biases tasks

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Heuristics and Biases as Measures of Critical Thinking: Associations with Cognitive Ability and Thinking Dispositions

    Richard F. West;Maggie E. Toplak;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Executive Functions: Performance-Based Measures and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) in Adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

    Maggie E. Toplak;Stefania M. Bucciarelli;Umesh Jain;Rosemary Tannock

  • Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West;Maggie E. Toplak

  • Decision-making and cognitive abilities: A review of associations between Iowa Gambling Task performance, executive functions, and intelligence.

    Maggie E. Toplak;Geoff B. Sorge;André Benoit;Richard F. West

  • Heuristic and analytic processing: age trends and associations with cognitive ability and cognitive styles.

    Judite V. Kokis;Robyn Macpherson;Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West

  • Temporal information processing in ADHD: Findings to date and new methods

    Maggie E. Toplak;Colleen Dockstader;Rosemary Tannock

  • Executive and motivational processes in adolescents with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

    Maggie E Toplak;Umesh Jain;Rosemary Tannock

  • Time perception deficits in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and comorbid reading difficulties in child and adolescent samples

    M. E. Toplak;J. J. Rucklidge;R. Hetherington;S. C. F. John

  • The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West;Maggie E. Toplak

  • Defining features versus incidental correlates of Type 1 and Type 2 processing

    Keith E. Stanovich;Maggie E. Toplak

  • Inattention, working memory, and academic achievement in adolescents referred for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    Maria Rogers;Heungsun Hwang;Maggie Toplak;Margaret Weiss

  • The complexity of developmental predictions from dual process models

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West;Maggie E. Toplak

  • On the uses of sarcastic irony

    Maggie Toplak;Albert N. Katz

  • Review of cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and neural-based interventions for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

    Maggie E. Toplak;Laura Connors;Jill Shuster;Bojana Knezevic

  • The development of rational thought: a taxonomy of heuristics and biases.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West

  • Cognitive failures as predictors of driving errors, lapses, and violations

    Christine M. Wickens;Maggie E. Toplak;David L. Wiesenthal

  • Time perception: modality and duration effects in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    Maggie E. Toplak;Rosemary Tannock

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
Richard F. West
Richard F. West James Madison University
Rosemary Tannock
Rosemary Tannock University of Toronto
Robert E. Mann
Robert E. Mann Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
David B. Flora
David B. Flora York University
John D. Eastwood
John D. Eastwood York University
Evelyn Vingilis
Evelyn Vingilis University of Western Ontario
Hayley Hamilton
Hayley Hamilton Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Edward M. Adlaf
Edward M. Adlaf Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Jürgen Rehm
Jürgen Rehm University of Toronto

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