Intelligence (journal)

Academic journal

Intelligence

Discipline| Intelligence, psychometrics
Language| English
Edited by| Dragoș Iliescu and Samuel Greiff
Publication details
History| 1977–present
Publisher|

Elsevier

Frequency| Bimonthly

Impact factor

| 2.77 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Intelligence
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus * W&L
CODEN| NTLLDT
ISSN| 0160-2896

LCCN| 77643155
OCLC no.| 03334510
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access

Intelligence is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of psychology that covers research on intelligence and psychometrics. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the International Society for Intelligence Research. The journal was established in 1977 by Douglas K. Detterman. The editors-in-chief are Dragoș Iliescu and Samuel Greiff.

According to the New Statesman in 2018, the "journal Intelligence is one of the most respected in its field" but has allowed its reputation "to be used to launder or legitimate racist pseudo-science".[1] Smithsonian Magazine called it "a more respected psychology journal", but stated that it has "occasionally included papers with pseudoscientific findings about intelligence differences between races".[2] It has been criticized for having included on its editorial board biochemist Gerhard Meisenberg and psychologist Richard Lynn, both known as promoters of eugenics and scientific racism.[1][3][4][5] In 2018 then-editor-in-chief Richard J. Haier defended their involvement on the basis of academic freedom.[1]

## History

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The first issue of the journal was published in January 1977, with Douglas K. Detterman of Case Western Reserve University as editor-in-chief. In 2016, Detterman was replaced by Richard J. Haier.[6]

In August 2024, Elsevier began a review of work published in its journals, including Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences, written by Richard Lynn. This review coincided with renewed attention towards scientific racism in academia, and specifically calls for much of Lynn's work to be retracted.[7]

In early 2025, Haier was replaced as editor-in-chief by Dragoș Iliescu and Samuel Greiff.[8]

## Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in Psychological Abstracts/PsycINFO, Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, Current Index to Journals in Education, Scopus, and Sociological Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2020 impact factor was 2.77.[9]

## References

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1. ^ a b c van der Merwe, Ben (19 February 2018). "It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
2. ^ Skibba, Ramin (20 May 2019). "The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism". Smithsonian Magazine.
3. ^ Saini, Angela (22 January 2018). "Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
4. ^ Barnes, Tom (7 December 2018). "Hundreds of academics demand Cambridge investigate researcher accused of publishing 'racist pseudoscience'". The Independent. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
5. ^ Winston, Andrew (29 May 2020). "Scientific Racism and North American Psychology". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.516. ISBN 978-0-19-023655-7.
6. ^ "Intelligence | Vol 55, Pages 1-104 (March–April 2016)". www.sciencedirect.com. ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
7. ^ Devlin, Hannah; Pegg, David (10 December 2024). "Publisher reviews national IQ research by British 'race scientist' Richard Lynn". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
8. ^ "Welcoming our new Editors-in-Chief". Intelligence. 17 June 2025.
9. ^ "Intelligence". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.

## External links

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* Official website

Authority control databases

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* VIAF

National|

* United States