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Decision Research

In research, Decision Research stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,698 of 14,833 worldwide), Sociology and Political Science (#1,367 of 4,066 worldwide) and Decision Sciences (#834 of 1,649 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,793
of 22,385 · #6,933 all time
Rank in United States
#2,603
of 3,332
Research works
731
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
83k
114.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
27%
world 18%
Decision Research

What is Decision Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #3,698 of 14,833 25.5%459
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,367 of 4,066 32.7%127
Decision SciencesField #834 of 1,649 27.0%121
Physical SciencesDomain #9,551 of 17,446 13.7%166
Social SciencesField #5,372 of 9,330 28.2%173

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Decision Research sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Decision Research work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Decision Research is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Computer Science (12%), Medicine (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 49 fractional works · 57.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 24.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 17.2% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 8.3% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 8.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 20 fractional works · 23.6% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 11.8% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 6.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 12.6% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 10.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDecision Research86fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences57%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2124.6%
    2. Decision Sciences78.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting78.1%
    4. Psychology77.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance66.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities11.7%
    1. Computer Science1011.8%
    2. Engineering56.3%
    3. Environmental Science44.7%
    4. Mathematics10.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Medicine910.3%
    2. Health Professions22.0%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Neuroscience44.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.87× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 1.51× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.42× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.95× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.54× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.52× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 8.57× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.15× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.56× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.95× its world share, 21 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences8.57×7 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.15×6 works
  3. Neuroscience2.87×4 works
  4. Psychology2.56×7 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting2.52×7 works
  6. Social Sciences1.95×21 works
  7. Computer Science1.51×10 works
  8. Environmental Science0.95×4 works
  9. Health Professions0.77×2 works
  10. Mathematics0.58×1 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.57×1 works
  12. Medicine0.54×9 works
  13. Nursing0.51×0 works
  14. Engineering0.42×5 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×1 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.14×1 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.10×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Decision Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein and C. K. Mertz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Decision Research.

  1. 1 Paul Slovic United States · #3,176 worldwide 125k citations · 698 works
  2. 2 Sarah Lichtenstein United States · #45,270 worldwide 29k citations · 142 works
  3. 3 C. K. Mertz United States · #94,803 worldwide 9.7k citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Robin Gregory United States · #126,316 worldwide 11k citations · 193 works
  5. 5 Joseph Árvai United States · #209,423 worldwide 4.7k citations · 98 works
  6. 6 Marcus W. Mayorga United States · #463,789 worldwide 990 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Lee Failing United States · #692,158 worldwide 2.9k citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Joshua A. Weller United States · #761,933 worldwide 3.5k citations · 84 works
  9. 9 Branden B. Johnson United States · #958,372 worldwide 5.5k citations · 176 works
  10. 10 Donald G. MacGregor United States · #975,854 worldwide 8.2k citations · 127 works
All ranked researchers at Decision Research

What are the most cited papers from Decision Research?

The most cited paper from Decision Research is "Perception of Risk" (Paul Slovic, 1987), with 9,303 citations. Next come "The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework" (3,671) and "The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits" (2,882).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perception of Risk Paul Slovic · Science 17 Apr 1987 9,303
2 The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework Roger E. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic et al. · Risk Analysis Open access Jun 1988 3,671
3 The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits Melissa L. Finucane, Ali Alhakami, Paul Slovic et al. · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 2000 2,882
4 How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein et al. · Policy Sciences Apr 1978 2,860
5 The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan, Ellen M. Peters et al. · Scholarly Commons - George Washington University Law School (George Washington University) 2012 2,335
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Decision Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Perception, Emotion, Trust, Communication, Nuclear Power, Food Safety, Precautionary Principle and Decision Making.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Perception7▲ 30×5 topics
  2. Emotion7▲ 38×4 topics
  3. Trust6▲ 25×6 topics
  4. Social Media5▲ 4.3×12 topics
  5. Public Health5▲ 3.9×8 topics
  6. Communication4▲ 16×2 topics
  7. Food Safety4▲ 17×1 topic
  8. Nuclear Power4▲ 202×2 topics
  9. Precautionary Principle4▲ 398×1 topic
  10. Machine Learning4▲ 1.38×13 topics
  11. Neural Networks4▲ 3.0×10 topics
  12. Decision Making4▲ 16×4 topics
  13. Environmental Attitudes4▲ 54×2 topics
  14. Big Data3▲ 4.0×8 topics
  15. Risk Aversion3▲ 210×1 topic
  16. Time Discounting3▲ 210×1 topic
  17. Ethics3▲ 7.0×3 topics
  18. Neuroscience3▲ 11×4 topics
  19. Resilience3▲ 6.5×8 topics
  20. Disgust2▲ 104×1 topic
  21. Moral Judgment2▲ 104×1 topic
  22. Self-Regulation2▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Supply Chain Management2▲ 3.1×10 topics
  24. Gender Differences2▲ 7.1×7 topics
  25. Meta-Analysis2▲ 4.6×5 topics
  26. Polarization2▲ 18×3 topics
  27. Security2▲ 4.0×5 topics
  28. Social Norms2▲ 26×2 topics
  29. Fake News2▲ 38×1 topic
  30. Misinformation2▲ 38×1 topic
  31. Behavior Change Techniques2▲ 62×1 topic
  32. Public Perception2▲ 18×2 topics
  33. Theory of Planned Behaviour2▲ 62×1 topic
  34. Energy Conservation2▲ 44×1 topic
  35. Pro-environmental Behavior2▲ 44×1 topic
  36. Global Warming2▲ 5.0×2 topics
  37. Media Coverage2▲ 69×1 topic
  38. Science Communication2▲ 24×1 topic
  39. Fairness2▲ 17×2 topics
  40. Social Identity2▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Decision Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Risk Perception and Management, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Risk Perception and Management: 4 fractional worksDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics: 3 fractional worksPsychology of Moral and …2Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment: 2 fractional worksMisinformation and Its I…2Misinformation and Its Impacts: 2 fractional worksBehavioral Health and Interventions: 2 fractional worksEnvironmental Education and Sustainability: 2 fractional worksClimate Change Communica…2Climate Change Communication and Perception: 2 fractional worksSocial and Intergroup Psychology: 1 fractional worksEconomic and Environmental Valuation: 1 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 1 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceGeneral Decision SciencesCognitive NeuroscienceApplied Psychology3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Risk Perception and Management Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  2. 2 Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics General Decision Sciences 3 works
  3. 3 Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  4. 4 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  5. 5 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  6. 6 Environmental Education and Sustainability Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  7. 7 Climate Change Communication and Perception Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  8. 8 Social and Intergroup Psychology Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  9. 9 Economic and Environmental Valuation Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  10. 10 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available33.7%not open66.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.9%domestic only73.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Decision Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Decision Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Decision Research0.00044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Decision Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Decision Research11.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 36.6% in 2006.

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