Welcome to my publications page. Papers I haven’t uploaded here can often be downloaded through my profile on Google Scholar Citations or through Research Gate. My network publications are collected on the Psychosystems project page, which also holds relevant links to data and analysis code.
Books
Papers
2017
Borsboom, D. (2017). A network theory of mental disorders. World Psychiatry, 16, 5-13.
2016
2015
2014
Adolf, J., Schuurman, N. K., Borkenau, P., Borsboom, D., & Dolan, C. V. (2014). Measurement invariance within and between individuals: a distinct problem in testing the equivalence of intra- and inter-individual model structures. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 883. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00883
Borkulo, C.D. van, Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Blanken, T.F., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R.A. & Waldorp, L.J. (2014). A new method for constructing networks from binary data. Scientific Reports, 4:5918. doi: 10.1038/srep05918
Bringmann, L. F., Lemmens, L. H. J. M., Huibers, M. J. H., Borsboom, D., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2014). Revealing the dynamic network structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-II. Psychological Medicine. doi:10.1017/S0033291714001809
Costantini, G., Epskamp, S., Borsboom, D., Perugini, M., Mottus, R., Waldorp, L.J. & Cramer, A.O.J. (2014). State of the aRt personality research: A tutorial on network analysis of personality data in R. Journal of Research in Personality. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.07.003
Franić, S., Borsboom, D., Dolan, C.V. & Boomsma, D.I. (2014). The big five personality traits: psychological entities or statistical constructs? Behavior Genetics, 44 (6), 591-604. doi: 10.1007/s10519-013-9625-7
Franić, S., Dolan, C.V., Borsboom, D., Beijsterveldt, C.E.M. van & Boomsma, D.I. (2014). Three-and-a-half-factor model? The genetic and environmental structure of the CBCL/6–18 internalizing grouping. Behavior Genetics, 44 (3), 254-268. doi: 10.1007/s10519-013-9628-4
Franić, S., Dolan, C.V., Borsboom, D., Beijsterveldt, C.E.M. van & Boomsma, D.I. (2014). Erratum to: Three-and-a-Half-Factor Model? The Genetic and Environmental Structure of the CBCL/6–18 Internalizing Grouping. Behavior Genetics, 44, 269-269.
Fried, E., Tuerlinckx, F., & Borsboom, D. (2014). Mental health: More than neurobiology (Letter to the editor). Nature, 508, 458.
Groot, A.D. de, Wagenmakers, E.-J., Borsboom, D., Verhagen, A.J., Kievit, R.A., Bakker, M., Cramer, A.O.J., Matzke, D., Mellenbergh, G.J. & Maas, H.L.J. van der (2014). The meaning of “significance” for different types of research [translated and annotated version of the Dutch article (1956) by A.D. de Groot]. Acta Psychologica, 148, 188-194. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.02.001
Leemput, I.A. van de, Wichers, M., Cramer, A.O.J., Borsboom, D., Tuerlinckx, F., Kuppens, P., Nes, E.H. van, Viechtbauer, W., Giltay, E.J., Aggen, S.H., Derom, C., Jacobs, N., Kendler, K.S., Maas, H.L.J. van der, Neale, M.C., Peeters, F., Thiery, E., Zachar, P. & Scheffer, M. (2014). Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (1), 87-92. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312114110
Ruzzano, L., Borsboom, D., Geurts, H. M. (2014). A network analysis of repetitive behaviors in autism and obsessive compulsive disorder: a new perspective. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2204-9
Van der Maas, H.L.J., Kan, K. -J., & Borsboom, D. (2014). Intelligence is what the intelligence test measures. Seriously. Journal of Intelligence, 2, 12–15.
Wichers, M., Borsboom, D., Tuerlinckx, F., Kuppens, P., Viechtbauer, W., Van de Leemput, I., Kendler, K. S., & Scheffer, M. (2014). Reply to Bos and De Jonge: Between-subject data do provide first empirical support for critical slowing down in depression. (Letter to the editor). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323835111
2013
Borsboom, D., & Cramer, A. O. J. (2013). Networks: An integrative approach to the structure of psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 9, 91-121.
Franić, S., Dolan, C. V., Borsboom, D., Hudziak, J. J., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., & Boomsma, D. I. (2013). Can Genetics help Psychometrics? Improving Dimensionality Assessment through Genetic Factor Modeling. Psychological Methods, doi: 10.1037/a0032755.
Borsboom, D., & Haig, B. D. (2013). How to practice Bayesian statistics outside the Bayesian church: What philosophy for Bayesian modeling? British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 66, 39-44.
Borsboom, D., & Markus, K. A. (2013). Truth and evidence in validity theory. Journal of Educational Measurement, 50, 110-114.
Franić, S., Dolan, C. V., Borsboom, D., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., & Boomsma, D. I. (2013). Three-and-a-Half-Factor Model? The Genetic and Environmental Structure of the CBCL/6-18 Internalizing grouping. Behavior Genetics. doi:10.1007/s10519-013-9628-4.
Franić, S., Borsboom, D., Dolan, C. V., & Boomsma, D. I. (2013). The Big Five Personality Traits – Psychological Entities or Statistical Constructs? Behavior Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s10519-013-9625-7
Bakker, M., Cramer, A. O. J., Matzke, D., Kievit, R. A., Van Der Maas, H. L. J., Wagenmakers, E. J. & Borsboom, D. (2013) Dwelling on the Past. European Journal of Personality, doi: 10.1002/per.1920.
Bringmann, L. F., Vissers, N., Wichers, M., Geschwind, N., Kuppens, P., Peeters, F., Borsboom, D., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2013). A network approach to psychopathology: New insights into clinical longitudinal data. PLoS ONE, 8, e60188, 1-13. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060188.
Kievit, R. A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Waldorp, L. J. & Borsboom, D. (2013). Simpson’s Paradox in Psychological Science: A Practical Guide. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00513.
LeBel, E. P., Borsboom, D., Giner-Sorolla, R., Hasselman, F., Peters, K. R., Ratliff, K. A., & Smith, C. T. (2013). PsychDisclosure.org: Grassroots support for reforming reporting standards in psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 424-432.
Molenaar, D., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Investigating item bias on subtest scores. Educational Research and Evaluation, 19, 223-244.
Schmittmann, V. D., Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., Epskamp, S., Kievit, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Deconstructing the construct: A network perspective on psychological phenomena. New Ideas in Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2011.02.007
2012
Cramer, A. O. J., van der Sluis, S., Noordhof, A., Wicherts, M., Geschwind, N., Aggen, S. H., Kendler, K. S., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Dimensions of normal personality as networks in search of equilibrium: You can’t like parties if you don’t like people. European Journal of Personality, 26, 414-431.
Cramer, A. O. J., van der Sluis, S., Noordhof, A., Wicherts, M., Geschwind, N., Aggen, S. H., Kendler, K. S., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Measurable like temperature or mereological like flocking? On the nature of personality traits. European Journal of Personality, 26, 451-459.
Cramer, A. O. J., Kendler, K. S., & Borsboom, D. (2012). A constructionist account of emotional disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 146-147.
Cramer, A.O.J., Borsboom, D., Aggen, S.H., & Kendler, K.S. (2012). The pathoplasticity of major depression. Psychological Medicine, 42, 957-965. doi:10.1017/S003329171100211X
Epskamp, S., Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., Schmittmann, V. D., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Qgraph: Network visualizations of relationships in psychometric data. Journal of Statistical Software, 48, 1-18.
Borsboom, D., van der Sluis, S., Noordhof, A., Wicherts, M., Geschwind, N., Aggen, S. H., Kendler, K. S., & Cramer, A. O. J. (2012). What kind of causal modelling approach does personality research need? European Journal of Personality, 26, 392-393.
Borsboom, D. (2012). Whose consensus is it, anyway? Scientific versus legalistic conceptions of validity. Measurement, 10, 38-41.
Wicherts, J. M., Kievit, R. A., Bakker, M., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Letting the daylight in: Reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparancy in science. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00020
Kievit, R.A., van Rooijen, H., Wicherts, J.M., Kan, K.J., Waldorp, L.J., Scholte & Borsboom, D. (2012). Intelligence and the brain: A model-based approach. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 89-97.
Haig, B. D., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Truth, science, and psychology. Theory & Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0959354311430442
2011
Borsboom, D., Cramer, A. O. J., Schmittmann, V. D., Epskamp, S., & Waldorp, L. J. (2011). The small world of psychopathology. PLoS ONE, 11, e27407.
Rigdon, E. E., Preacher, K. J., Lee, N., Howell, R. D., Franke, G. R., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Avoiding measurement dogma: A response to Rossiter. European Journal of Marketing, 45, 1589-1600.
Penke, L., Borsboom, D., Johnson, W., Kievit, R.A., Ploeger, A., & Wicherts, J.M. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research cannot be integrated the way Kanazawa (2010) suggested. American Psychologist, 66, 916-917.
Zand Scholten, A., Maris, G., & Borsboom, D. (2011). The emperor’s new measurement model. Measurement, 9, 32-35.
Markus, K. A., & Borsboom, D. (2011). The cat came back: Evaluating arguments against psychological measurement. Theory & Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0959354310381155.
Cramer, A. O. J., Kendler, K. S., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Where are the genes? The implications of a network perspective on gene hunting in psychopathology. A commentary on Johnson et al. European Journal of Personality, 25, 270-271.
Borsboom, D., Romeijn, J. W., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2011). Mechanistic curiosity will not kill the Bayesian cat. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 192.
Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Kievit, R. A., Cramer, A. O. J., & Schmittmann, V. D. (2011). Transdiagnostic networks. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 610-614.
Van der Maas, H. L. J., Molenaar, D., Maris, G., Kievit, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Cognitive psychology meets psychometric theory: On the relation between process models for decision making and latent variable models for individual differences. Psychological Review, 118, 339-356.
Kievit, R.A., Romeijn, J.W., Waldorp, L.J., Wicherts, J. M., Scholte, H. S., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Mind the gap: A psychometric approach to the reduction problem. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 1-21.
Kievit, R.A., Romeijn, J.W., Waldorp, L.J., Wicherts, J. M., Scholte, H. S., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Modeling mind and matter: Reductionism and psychological measurement in cognitive neuroscience. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 60-79.
Stringer, S., Borsboom, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2011). Bayesian inference for the information gain model. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 297-309.
Markus, K. A., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Reflective measurement models, behavior domains, and common causes. New Ideas in Psychology, e-pub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2011.02.008
Wagenmakers, E.-J., Wetzels, R., Borsboom, D., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2011). Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi: Comment on Bem (2011). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 426-432.
2010
Maris, G., Schmittmann, V. D., & Borsboom, D. (2010). Who needs linear equating under the NEAT design? Measurement, 8, 11-15.
Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., van der Maas, H., & Borsboom, D. (2010). Comorbidity: A network perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 137-150.
Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., van der Maas, H., & Borsboom, D. (2010). Authors’ response. Complex realities require complex theories: Refining and extending the network approach to mental disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 178-193.
2009
Wicherts, J.M., Borsboom, D., & Dolan, C.V. (2009). Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 91-96.
Wicherts, J.M., Borsboom, D., & Dolan, C.V. (2009). Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples around 3000 years B.C. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 104-106.
Zand Scholten, A., & Borsboom, D. (2009). A reanalysis of Lord’s statistical treatment of football numbers. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53, 69-75.
2008
Borsboom, D., Wicherts, J. M., & Romeijn, J. W. (2008). Measurement invariance versus selection invariance: Is fair selection possible? Psychological Methods, 13, 75-98.
Borsboom, D., & Visser, I. (2008). Semantic cognition or data mining? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 714-715.
Borsboom, D., & Haig, B. D. (2008). On the conceptual foundations of psychological measurement: Editor’s introduction. Measurement, 6, 1-6.
Borsboom, D. (2008). Psychometric perspectives on diagnostic systems. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64, 1089-1108.
Borsboom, D. (2008). Latent variable theory. Measurement, 6, 25-53.
Borsboom, D. (2008). A tour guide to the latent realm. Measurement, 6, 134-148.
Borsboom, D. & Zand Scholten, A. (2008). The Rasch model and additive conjoint measurement theory from the perspective of psychometrics. Theory & Psychology, 18, 111-117.
2007
2006
Borsboom, D., & Dolan, C.V. (2006). Why g is not an adaptation: A comment on Kanazawa. Psychological Review, 113, 433-437. This is a comment on Satoshi Kanazawa’s (2004) paper on general intelligence.
Borsboom, D. (2006). Evolutionary theory and the riddle of the universe. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 351. This is a BBS commentary attached to Mesoudi, Whiten, and Laland’s (2006) paper on cultural evolution.
Borsboom, D. (2006). When does measurement invariance matter? Medical Care, 44, S176-S181.
Borsboom, D. (2006). The attack of the psychometricians. Psychometrika, 71, 425-440. This a focus paper that appeared together with commentaries by Michael Kane, Willem Heiser, Lee Anna Clark, and Klaas Sijtsma. Here is my rejoinder:
2005
Borsboom, D. (2005). Measuring the mind: Conceptual issues in contemporary psychometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book was reviewed by Joel Michell for Theory & Psychology, by Jacqueline Leighton for Journal of Educational Measurement, by Ramin Mojtabai for Psychological Medicine, and by Per Bech for Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The book is an edited version of my dissertation, which can be downloaded here.
2004
Borsboom, D., & Mellenbergh, G.J. (2004). Why psychometrics is not pathological. Theory & Psychology, 14, 105-120. This is a comment on a paper by Joel Michell which can be downloaded here; for his reply to our commentary, click here.
2003
2002
Borsboom, D., & Mellenbergh, G.J. (2002). True scores, latent variables, and constructs: A comment on Schmidt and Hunter. Intelligence, 30, 505-514. This is a comment on a paper by Schmidt and Hunter.
Software
Epskamp, S., Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., Schmittmann, V. D., & Borsboom, D. (2011). qgraph: Network representations of relationhips in data. R package version 0.4.10. Available from http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=qgraph.
Book chapters
Book Reviews
Borsboom, D. (2002). The Mind’s Arrow’s, C. Glymour. Acta Psychologica, 111, 355-357.
Papers in Dutch
Borsboom, D., (2016). Bodemschatten. De Psycholoog, 4,10-20. Dit is de tekst van mijn oratie; klik hier voor een beeldregistratie.
Nuijten, M., Deserno, M., Cramer, A. & Borsboom, D. (2013). Psychologische stoornissen als complexe netwerken. De Psycholoog, 1, 12-23.
Kievit, R. A., Borsboom, D., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Wicherts, J. Wetzels, R., van Harmelen, A-.L., & Van den Berg, H. (2011). Maatregel om fraude aan te pakken brengt enkel voordelen met zich mee. [Measures to fight scientific fraud only have advantages.] Volkskrant Online, 16 September.
Borsboom, D., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Wetzels, R., Kievit, R., Van den Berg, H., & Wicherts, J. (2011). Universiteiten en subsidieverstrekkers moeten fraude aanpakken. [Universities and funding agencies should do more to prevent scientific fraud]. Volkskrant Online, 9 September.
Wilbrink, B., Borsboom, D., & Couzijn, M. (2010). Spelling, grammatica, en interpunctie meebeoordelen op examens? [Should spelling and grammar be judged in exams?] Examens, 3, 5-9.
Borsboom, D. (2006). Kafka aan het Spui. [Kafka at the Spui]. Folia, 7 december.
Borsboom, D. (2006). Selectie aan universiteiten is lege huls. [Selection at universities is an empty gesture]. NRC Handelsblad, 23 September.
Borsboom, D. (2006). ‘Lekker even integreren’ bestaat niet. [Integration does not exist]. NRC Handelsblad, 26 August.
Borsboom, D. (2005). Bos creëert meer bobo’s. [Bos creates more useless administrators]. NRC Handelsblad, 9 September.
Borsboom, D. (2004). Selectie aan de poort is zinloos. [Selection at the university gates does not make sense]. NRC Handelsblad, 24 June.
Borsboom, D. (2001). Het zwarte zelfbeeld van de psycholoog. [The low self-esteem of psychologists]. Facta, 4, 26-28.
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