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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Germany

Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer publishes mostly in General Decision Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Philosophy and History of Science and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

ORCID 0000-0002-6163-5419 OpenAlex
World rank
#25,107
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,468
of 364,343
Works
784
Citations
65k
Citations per work
82.9
h-index
111
i10-index 357Top 0.8% in General Decision Sciences
Gerd Gigerenzer

What does Gerd Gigerenzer research?

Gerd Gigerenzer's work is mostly in Decision Sciences (16%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Social Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 463 works · 59.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 229 works · 29.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 126 works · 16.1% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 85 works · 10.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 42 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 53 works · 6.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 53 works · 6.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 49 works · 6.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 49 works · 6.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 46 works · 5.9% of their workComputer Science: 46 works · 5.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 46 works · 5.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 45 works · 5.8% of their workHealth Professions: 45 works · 5.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 45 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGerd Gigerenzer784works
Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences29%

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. Everything else46359.1%
    1. Decision Sciences12616.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance536.8%
    3. Social Sciences496.3%
    1. Computer Science465.9%
    1. Health Professions455.8%
  1. 1General Decision Sciences11% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerd Gigerenzer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Decision Making, Risk Aversion, Time Discounting, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics and Economic Experiments.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Decision Making2352 topics
  2. Risk Aversion1851 topic
  3. Time Discounting1851 topic
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis611 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation611 topic
  6. Soft Systems Methodology501 topic
  7. System Dynamics501 topic
  8. Economic Experiments471 topic
  9. Social Preferences471 topic
  10. Data Science461 topic
  11. Statistics Anxiety461 topic
  12. Bayesian Networks301 topic
  13. Causal Inference301 topic
  14. Probability Theory261 topic
  15. Statistical Modeling261 topic
  16. Cancer Incidence251 topic
  17. Mortality Rates251 topic

Where does Gerd Gigerenzer work?

Gerd Gigerenzer's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Gerd Gigerenzer have?

OpenAlex counts 784 works and 65,001 citations for Gerd Gigerenzer, an h-index of 111, ranking #25,107 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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