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Oliver Wilhelm

Oliver Wilhelm

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
19632
World Ranking
3794
National Ranking
170

Oliver Wilhelm publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 228 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Oliver Wilhelm 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 Oliver Wilhelm sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Oliver Wilhelm is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and specializes in the field of psychology, having contributed extensively to various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's research primarily centers on cognitive abilities, creativity, personality traits, emotional intelligence, personality disorders, cognitive science, and neural and behavioral psychology. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Among recent publications, several papers stand out by title, year, and venue of publication:

  • Measuring the 7Cs of Vaccination Readiness, 2021, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Examining the Factor Structure and Validity of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, 2020, Journal of Personality Assessment
  • On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and its Relation with Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Sty in the Mind's Eye: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Nomological Network and Internal Consistency of the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test, 2021, Assessment
  • Age and gender differences in socially aversive ("dark") personality traits, 2021, European Journal of Personality

Frequent co-authors in their scholarly work include Ulrich Schroeders, Selina Weiss, Mattis Geiger, Benjamin Goecke, and Diana Steger.

Oliver Wilhelm's publication record shows a concentration in several key academic journals, notably:

  • Intelligence
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • European Journal of Personality
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Personality Assessment

This profile highlights a sustained involvement in advanced psychological research across various aspects of cognitive and personality studies, grounded in empirical methodology and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human behavior and cognition.

Best Publications

  • Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide

    Andrew R. A. Conway;Michael J. Kane;Michael F. Bunting;D. Zach Hambrick

  • The Generality of Working Memory Capacity: A Latent-Variable Approach to Verbal and Visuospatial Memory Span and Reasoning

    Michael J. Kane;David Z. Hambrick;Stephen W. Tuholski;Oliver Wilhelm

  • WORKING-MEMORY CAPACITY EXPLAINS REASONING ABILITY - AND A LITTLE BIT MORE

    Heinz-Martin Süß;Klaus Oberauer;Werner W Wittmann;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Working memory capacity - facets of a cognitive ability construct

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süß;Ralf Schulze;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence

    Florian Schmiedek;Klaus Oberauer;Oliver Wilhelm;Heinz-Martin Süß

  • Working Memory and Intelligence—Their Correlation and Their Relation: Comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005)

    Klaus Oberauer;Ralf Schulze;Oliver Wilhelm;Heinz-Martin Süss

  • What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it?

    Oliver Wilhelm;Andrea Hildebrandt Hildebrandt;Klaus Oberauer

  • The multiple faces of working memory: Storage, processing, supervision, and coordination

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süß;Oliver Wilhelm;Werner W Wittman

  • A Tutorial on Hierarchically Structured Constructs

    Martin Brunner;Gabriel Nagy;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: the gap is not that deep.

    Florian Schmiedek;Andrea Hildebrandt;Martin Lövdén;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Individual differences in working memory capacity and reasoning ability

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süß;Oliver Wilhelm;Nicolas Sander

  • Which Working Memory Functions Predict Intelligence

    Klaus Oberauer;Heinz-Martin Süβ;Oliver Wilhelm;Werner W. Wittmann

  • The meaning(s) of conditionals: conditional probabilities, mental models, and personal utilities.

    Klaus Oberauer;Oliver Wilhelm

  • A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings

    Sally Olderbak;Oliver Wilhelm;Gabriel Olaru;Mattis Geiger

  • Individual Differences in Perceiving and Recognizing Faces—One Element of Social Cognition

    Oliver Wilhelm;Grit Herzmann;Olga Kunina;Vanessa Danthiir

  • Handbook of understanding and measuring intelligence

    Oliver Wilhelm;Randall W. Engle

  • Facial EMG responses to emotional expressions are related to emotion perception ability.

    Janina Künecke;Andrea Hildebrandt;Guillermo Recio;Werner Sommer

  • Environment-Specific vs. General Knowledge and Their Role in Pro-environmental Behavior

    Sonja Maria Geiger;Mattis Geiger;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Measuring the 7Cs of Vaccination Readiness

    Mattis Geiger;Franziska Rees;Lau Lilleholt;Ana P. Santana

  • The Impact of Model Misspecification on Parameter Estimation and Item-Fit Assessment in Log-Linear Diagnostic Classification Models

    Olga Kunina-Habenicht;André A. Rupp;Oliver Wilhelm

  • THEORETICAL AND REVIEW ARTICLES Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide

    Andrew R. A. Conway;Michael J. Kane;Michael F. Bunting;D. Zach Hambrick

  • Online Supplemental Material

    Diana Steger;Ulrich Schroeders;Oliver Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Sommer
Werner Sommer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Randall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael J. Kane
Michael J. Kane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Annekathrin Schacht
Annekathrin Schacht University of Göttingen
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society
Carolyn MacCann
Carolyn MacCann University of Sydney
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn

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