Bibliometric analysis across eight years 2008–2015 of Intelligence articles: An updating of Wicherts (2009)

I update and expand upon Wicherts' (2009) editorial in Intelligence. He reported citation counts of papers published in this journal from 1977 to 2007. All these papers are now at least a decade old, and many more new articles have been published since Wichert's analysis. An updated study is needed to help (1) quantify the journal's more recent impact on the scientific study of intelligence, and (2) alert researchers and educators to highly-cited articles; especially newer ones. Thus, I conducted a bibliometric analysis of all articles published here from 2008 to 2015. Data sources included both the Web of Science (WOS), and Google Scholar (GS). The eight-year set comprised 619 articles, published by 1897 authors. The average article had 17.0 (WOS), and 32.9 (GS) citations overall (2.75, and 5.33 citations per year, respectively). These metrics compare favorably with those from other psychology journals. In addition, a list of the most prolific authors is provided. Also reported is a list showing many articles in this set with counts greater than one hundred, and an updated top 25 list for the history of this journal. •I report bibliometrics on eight years of papers published in Intelligence.•My metrics came from both the Web of Science (WOS) and Google Scholar (GS).•The N=619 papers averaged 17.0 (WOS) and 32.9 (GS) citations overall.•Counts here compare favorably with those from other journals in psychology.•WOS and GS counts correlate 0.97, but GS returns almost twice as many citations.