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Researcher · University of Cologne · Germany

Axel Ockenfels

Axel Ockenfels publishes mostly in Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Auction Theory and Applications and Game Theory and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0003-1456-0191 OpenAlex
World rank
#71,771
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#3,971
of 364,343
Works
292
Citations
15k
Citations per work
52.2
h-index
46
i10-index 122Top 1.6% in Management Science and Operations Research
Axel Ockenfels

What does Axel Ockenfels research?

Axel Ockenfels's work is mostly in Social Sciences (28%), Decision Sciences (24%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (14%).

Social Sciences: 192 works · 65.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 82 works · 28.0% of their workSafety Research: 55 works · 18.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 9.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 69 works · 23.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 55 works · 19.0% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 14 works · 4.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 40 works · 13.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 40 works · 13.8% of their workEverything else: 88 works · 30.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 4.4% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 4.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 13 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAxel Ockenfels292works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences66%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences8228.0%
    2. Decision Sciences6923.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4013.8%
  2. Everything else8830.0%
    1. Engineering134.4%
  1. 1Management Science and Operations Research19% of their works
  2. 2Safety Research19% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics14% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  5. 5General Decision Sciences5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Axel Ockenfels's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Incentives, Altruism, Cooperation, Trust, Economic Experiments, Social Preferences, Auction Theory and Mechanism Design.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Incentives2222 topics
  2. Altruism1612 topics
  3. Cooperation1612 topics
  4. Trust1592 topics
  5. Economic Experiments1371 topic
  6. Social Preferences1371 topic
  7. Auction Theory851 topic
  8. Mechanism Design851 topic
  9. Social Networks772 topics
  10. Game Theory531 topic
  11. Network Formation531 topic
  12. Decision Making351 topic
  13. Risk Aversion351 topic
  14. Climate Change241 topic
  15. Economic Impacts241 topic
  16. Evolutionary Games241 topic
  17. Indirect Reciprocity241 topic
  18. Culture221 topic
  19. Institutions221 topic
  20. Marketing Strategies221 topic
  21. Retail Economics221 topic

Where does Axel Ockenfels work?

Axel Ockenfels's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cologne, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Axel Ockenfels have?

OpenAlex counts 292 works and 15,256 citations for Axel Ockenfels, an h-index of 46, ranking #71,771 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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