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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr publishes mostly in Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6325-7821 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,035
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#12
of 80,918
Works
661
Citations
108k
Citations per work
163.4
h-index
130
i10-index 357Top 0.1% in Safety Research
Ernst Fehr

What does Ernst Fehr research?

Ernst Fehr's work is mostly in Social Sciences (37%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (19%), Neuroscience (7%).

Social Sciences: 412 works · 62.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 246 works · 37.2% of their workSafety Research: 131 works · 19.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 75 works · 11.4% of their workDemography: 40 works · 6.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 124 works · 18.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 124 works · 18.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 43 works · 6.5% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 43 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 203 works · 30.7% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 6.9% of their workNeuroscience: 46 works · 6.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 46 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKErnst Fehr661works
Life Sciences7%Social Sciences62%

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 Sciences24637.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12418.7%
    3. Decision Sciences436.5%
  2. Everything else20330.7%
    1. Neuroscience466.9%
  1. 1Safety Research20% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics19% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5General Decision Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Demography6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ernst Fehr's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Trust, Altruism, Cooperation, Economic Experiments, Social Preferences, Emotion, Decision Making and Risk Aversion.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Trust4212 topics
  2. Altruism4072 topics
  3. Cooperation4072 topics
  4. Economic Experiments3231 topic
  5. Social Preferences3231 topic
  6. Emotion1592 topics
  7. Decision Making1061 topic
  8. Risk Aversion1061 topic
  9. Culture981 topic
  10. Institutions981 topic
  11. Evolutionary Games841 topic
  12. Social Networks841 topic
  13. Asset Pricing571 topic
  14. Monetary Equilibrium571 topic
  15. Disgust531 topic
  16. Moral Judgment531 topic
  17. Evolutionary Psychology481 topic
  18. Human Behavior481 topic
  19. Contracts401 topic
  20. Enforcement401 topic

Where does Ernst Fehr work?

Ernst Fehr's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Ernst Fehr have?

OpenAlex counts 661 works and 108,006 citations for Ernst Fehr, an h-index of 130, ranking #2,035 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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