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Researcher · Decision Research · United States

C. K. Mertz

C. K. Mertz publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Risk Perception and Management, Climate Change Communication and Perception and Nuclear and radioactivity studies.

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World rank
#40,946
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#15,730
of 1,627,098
Works
58
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
167.9
h-index
37
i10-index 44Top 1.2% in Sociology and Political Science
C. K. Mertz

What does C. K. Mertz research?

C. K. Mertz's work is mostly in Social Sciences (38%), Psychology (10%), Engineering (6%).

Social Sciences: 30 works · 51.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 37.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 37.7% of their workPsychology: 6 works · 9.6% of their workApplied Psychology: 3 works · 5.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 4.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 4.1% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 2 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 39.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 9.6% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 6.2% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 works · 6.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 3.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKC. K. Mertz58works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences51%

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 Sciences2237.7%
    2. Psychology69.6%
    3. Decision Sciences24.1%
  2. Everything else2339.0%
    1. Engineering46.2%
    2. Environmental Science23.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science38% of their works
  2. 2Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality6% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology6% of their works
  4. 4General Decision Sciences4% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe C. K. Mertz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Risk Perception, Communication, Trust, Environmental Attitudes, Climate Change, Public Perception, Nuclear Fuel and Radiation Protection.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Perception412 topics
  2. Communication281 topic
  3. Trust281 topic
  4. Environmental Attitudes172 topics
  5. Climate Change131 topic
  6. Public Perception131 topic
  7. Nuclear Fuel71 topic
  8. Radiation Protection71 topic
  9. Self-Regulation71 topic
  10. Theory of Planned Behaviour71 topic
  11. Decision Making61 topic
  12. Risk Aversion61 topic
  13. Bayesian Networks41 topic
  14. Fault Tree Analysis41 topic
  15. Fukushima Daiichi41 topic
  16. Pro-environmental Behavior41 topic
  17. Social Norms41 topic
  18. nuclear accident41 topic

Where does C. K. Mertz work?

C. K. Mertz's main affiliation in the publication record is Decision Research, United States.

How many publications and citations does C. K. Mertz have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 9,738 citations for C. K. Mertz, an h-index of 37, ranking #40,946 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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