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Researcher · University of Bonn · Germany

Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research and Safety Research, on topics such as Game Theory and Applications, Economic theories and models and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#71,519
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#3,956
of 364,343
Works
287
Citations
20k
Citations per work
70.2
h-index
58
i10-index 110Top 0.6% in Economics and Econometrics
Reinhard Selten

What does Reinhard Selten research?

Reinhard Selten's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (30%), Decision Sciences (22%), Social Sciences (16%).

Social Sciences: 209 works · 72.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 87 works · 30.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 87 works · 30.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 64 works · 22.4% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 51 works · 17.9% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 13 works · 4.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 45 works · 15.7% of their workSafety Research: 27 works · 9.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 6.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 13 works · 4.5% of their workStrategy and Management: 13 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 78 works · 27.2% of their workTHEIR WORKReinhard Selten287works
Social Sciences73%

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. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8730.2%
    2. Decision Sciences6422.4%
    3. Social Sciences4515.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting134.5%
  2. Everything else7827.2%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics30% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research18% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5General Decision Sciences4% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Reinhard Selten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Game Theory, Social Networks, Altruism, Cooperation, Nash Equilibrium, Network Formation, Incentives and Asset Pricing.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Game Theory1322 topics
  2. Social Networks1182 topics
  3. Altruism952 topics
  4. Cooperation952 topics
  5. Nash Equilibrium911 topic
  6. Network Formation911 topic
  7. Incentives902 topics
  8. Asset Pricing891 topic
  9. Monetary Equilibrium891 topic
  10. Economic Experiments681 topic
  11. Social Preferences681 topic
  12. Mechanism Design632 topics
  13. Coalition Formation411 topic
  14. Matching Theory411 topic
  15. Decision Making321 topic
  16. Risk Aversion321 topic
  17. Evolutionary Games271 topic
  18. Indirect Reciprocity271 topic
  19. Auction Theory221 topic
  20. Procurement Contracts221 topic
  21. Economic Institutions181 topic
  22. Institutional Economics181 topic

Where does Reinhard Selten work?

Reinhard Selten's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bonn, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Reinhard Selten have?

OpenAlex counts 287 works and 20,154 citations for Reinhard Selten, an h-index of 58, ranking #71,519 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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