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Researcher · Vanderbilt University · United States

W. Kip Viscusi

W. Kip Viscusi publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Economic and Environmental Valuation, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems.

ORCID 0000-0002-7931-7689 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,061
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,191
of 1,627,098
Works
684
Citations
28k
Citations per work
41.2
h-index
84
i10-index 309Top 0.1% in Economics and Econometrics
W. Kip Viscusi

What does W. Kip Viscusi research?

W. Kip Viscusi's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (41%), Social Sciences (10%), Health Professions (9%).

Social Sciences: 402 works · 58.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 283 works · 41.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 283 works · 41.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 68 works · 10.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 49 works · 7.2% of their workDemography: 19 works · 2.8% of their workDecision Sciences: 50 works · 7.3% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 50 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 221 works · 32.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 62 works · 9.0% of their workHealth Professions: 62 works · 9.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 40 works · 5.8% of their workPharmacy: 22 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Kip Viscusi684works
Health Sciences9%Social Sciences59%

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 Finance28341.4%
    2. Social Sciences6810.0%
    3. Decision Sciences507.3%
  2. Everything else22132.3%
    1. Health Professions629.0%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics41% of their works
  2. 2General Decision Sciences7% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions6% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacy3% of their works
  6. 6Demography3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Kip Viscusi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Conjoint Analysis, Discrete Choice Models, Decision Making, Risk Aversion, Contracts, Enforcement, Health Care Spending and Insurance Markets.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Conjoint Analysis1731 topic
  2. Discrete Choice Models1731 topic
  3. Decision Making1171 topic
  4. Risk Aversion1171 topic
  5. Contracts1031 topic
  6. Enforcement1031 topic
  7. Health Care Spending841 topic
  8. Insurance Markets841 topic
  9. Cost-effectiveness Analysis801 topic
  10. Quality of Life801 topic
  11. Risk Perception621 topic
  12. Trust621 topic
  13. Ageing Population551 topic
  14. Health Care Expenditure551 topic
  15. Defensive Medicine511 topic
  16. Malpractice Risk511 topic

Where does W. Kip Viscusi work?

W. Kip Viscusi's main affiliation in the publication record is Vanderbilt University, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. Kip Viscusi have?

OpenAlex counts 684 works and 28,206 citations for W. Kip Viscusi, an h-index of 84, ranking #12,061 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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