Intelligence (journal)

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'''''Intelligence''''' is a bimonthly [[peer-reviewed]] [[scientific journal]] devoted to the [[psychology|psychological]] study of [[intelligence]] published by [[Elsevier]]. It has a history of publishing [[pseudoscience]] and [[scientific racism]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Skibba|first=Ramin|date=20 May 2019|title=The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism|work=Smithsonian Magazine|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/disturbing-resilience-scientific-racism-180972243/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Saini|first=Angela|date=2018-01-22|title=Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/22/eugenics-racism-mainstream-science|access-date=2018-12-17|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-12-07|title=Hundreds of academics demand Cambridge investigate researcher accused of publishing 'racist pseudoscience'|work=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/cambridge-professor-eugenics-research-investigation-racism-london-conference-intelligence-a8672921.html|access-date=2018-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Winston|first=Andrew|date=29 May 2020|title=Scientific Racism and North American Psychology|url=https://oxfordre.com/psychology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.001.0001/acrefore-9780190236557-e-516|journal=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.516|isbn=978-0-19-023655-7}}</ref>

As of 2025 the new editors-in-chief are Dragos Iliescu and Samuel Greiff.<ref>[https://archive.ph/G2ogF Editorial board - Intelligence] ''Intelligence'' (retrieved March 19, 2025)</ref> They published an editorial that breaks with some of the contested traditions of the journal, in particular [[pseudoscience]] and [[scientific racism]]  <ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000133</ref> 

Former editor [[Richard Haier]] was a signatory on the 1994 ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' editorial ''{{wpl|Mainstream Science on Intelligence||.}}'' Perhaps Haier's most controversial decision as editor has been to allow racialist pseudoscientists to serve on the journal's editorial board.<ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/02/it-might-be-pseudo-science-students-take-threat-eugenics-seriously It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics very seriously]</ref> 

==Editorial board==

Advocates of [[HBD]] pseudoscience that were on the editorial board include<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/intelligence/about/editorial-board Editorial board]. sciencedirect.com.</ref>:

*[[Richard Haier]]

As of 2025, [[Richard Haier]] is not listed on the board anymore. Since the beginning of the term of the new editors, the board has changed substantially and now reflects increased diversity. <ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/intelligence/about/editorial-board</ref>

==Papers==

''Intelligence'' has most controversially published papers by [[far-right]] individuals and [[white supremacists]]:
* [[Richard Lynn]]

Some of these papers are currently re-evaluated to see whether they meet current scientific standards.

==External links==
*[https://www.journals.elsevier.com/intelligence Official website]
==References==
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