Intelligence (journal)

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 (Case Western Reserve University). The editors-in-chief are Dragos Iliescu and Samuel Greiff.

Intelligence

Discipline	Intelligence, psychometrics
Language	English
Edited by	Dragos 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

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] The editor-in-chief of the journal defended their involvement on the basis of academic freedom.^[1] Lynn (who died in 2023) and Meisenberg no longer served on the editorial board as of 2018.^[2][6]

History

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

In early 2025, Haier was replaced as editor-in-chief by Dragos Iliescu and Samuel Greiff.^[9]

Abstracting and indexing

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.^[10]