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World rank
#12,478
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#839
of 367,258
Works
194
Citations
36k
Citations per work
186.7
h-index
66
i10-index 104Top 0.3% in Safety Research

What does Simon Gächter research?

Simon Gächter's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (15%), Decision Sciences (9%).

Social Sciences79%

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 Sciences10554.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2915.2%
    3. Decision Sciences189.4%
  1. Everything else4121.1%
  1. 1Safety Research26% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics15% of their works
  4. 4Demography10% of their works
  5. 5General Decision Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Gächter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Economic Experiments, Social Preferences, Culture, Evolutionary Games, Institutions and Social Networks.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism1792 topics
  2. Cooperation1792 topics
  3. Economic Experiments1301 topic
  4. Social Preferences1301 topic
  5. Culture491 topic
  6. Evolutionary Games491 topic
  7. Institutions491 topic
  8. Social Networks491 topic
  9. Emotion422 topics
  10. Decision Making281 topic
  11. Risk Aversion281 topic
  12. Intergroup Contact171 topic
  13. Social Identity171 topic
  14. Contracts161 topic
  15. Enforcement161 topic
  16. Disgust141 topic
  17. Evolutionary Psychology141 topic
  18. Human Behavior141 topic
  19. Moral Judgment141 topic

Where does Simon Gächter work?

Simon Gächter's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Gächter have?

OpenAlex counts 194 works and 36,227 citations for Simon Gächter, an h-index of 66, ranking #12,478 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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