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General Decision Sciences research

General Decision Sciences is a subfield of Decision Sciences. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 25.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: branch of applied probability theory.

Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
25.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
2
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+0%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead General Decision Sciences research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom rank highest in General Decision Sciences. By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (1.2k and 372 works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States · #1 all time 19.9% top 10% · 1.2k works
  2. 2 Germany · #3 all time 19.2% top 10% · 372 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom · #2 all time 21.9% top 10% · 313 works
  4. 4 China · #11 all time 15.4% top 10% · 328 works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 4 countries ranked in General Decision Sciences. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in General Decision Sciences

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 Germany 372 works
  3. 3 China 328 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 313 works
  5. 5 France 161 works
  6. 6 Italy 144 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 142 works
  8. 8 Canada 130 works
  9. 9 Australia 127 works
  10. 10 Japan 115 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 38.9%Germany: 12.4%China: 10.9%United Kingdom: 10.4%6 others listed: 27.3%39%largest
United States1,168 · 38.9%Germany372 · 12.4%China328 · 10.9%United Kingdom313 · 10.4%6 others listed819 · 27.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead General Decision Sciences research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Chicago publishes the most General Decision Sciences research, followed by California University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Chicago United States 27 works
  2. 2 California University of Pennsylvania United States 24 works
  3. 3 Cornell University United States 23 works
  4. 4 University of Toronto Canada 23 works
  5. 5 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 23 works
  6. 6 New York University United States 22 works
  7. 7 University of Oxford United Kingdom 19 works
  8. 8 University of Warwick United Kingdom 19 works
  9. 9 University of Zurich Switzerland 19 works
  10. 10 UNSW Sydney Australia 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in General Decision Sciences?

Among the most productive authors in General Decision Sciences, Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen and Joseph E. Stiglitz rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Kenneth J. Arrow United States · #26 worldwide 5.4k citations · 176 works
  2. 2 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States · #65 worldwide 4.2k citations · 188 works
  5. 5 Paul A. Samuelson United States · #91 worldwide 3.6k citations · 170 works
  6. 6 Daron Acemoğlu United States · #106 worldwide 5.7k citations · 213 works
  7. 7 Jean Tirole France · #189 worldwide 4.4k citations · 118 works
  8. 8 Lawrence H. Summers United States · #195 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
  9. 9 Robert Rosenthal United States · #204 worldwide 3.8k citations · 135 works
  10. 10 Paul Slovic United States · #421 worldwide 3.5k citations · 119 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 3,135 highest-output authors in General Decision Sciences. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 General Decision Sciences researchers

Where is General Decision Sciences research done?

The largest centres of General Decision Sciences research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in California and Rotterdam.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 85 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 65 works
  3. 3 New York United States 63 works
  4. 4 Paris France 63 works
  5. 5 Tokyo Japan 46 works
  6. 6 Sydney Australia 43 works
  7. 7 Chicago United States 37 works
  8. 8 Toronto Canada 36 works
  9. 9 Berlin Germany 35 works
  10. 10 Shanghai China 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CaliforniaUS · 23.6 works46×
  2. RotterdamNL · 29.2 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in General Decision Sciences than the world average.

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General Decision Sciences research by country

The best places for General Decision Sciences research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study General Decision Sciences?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Zurich, Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Warwick score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 27.9%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Zurich: 18, 35.6%Erasmus University Rotterdam: 23, 30.2%University of Warwick: 19, 27.9%Princeton University: 16, 41.1%University of Chicago: 27, 15.1%University of Cologne: 9, 39.4%London School of Economics and Political Science: 17, 12.9%New York University: 22, 24.3%University of Basel: 10, 27.3%University of Amsterdam: 14, 25.2%Princeton UniversityUniversity of ZurichErasmus University R…University of Warwick
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Zurich Switzerland 74.435.6%9.0×18 +12.6%
2Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 73.230.2%20.3×23 -6.6%
3University of Warwick United Kingdom 72.227.9%10.6×19 +42.9%
4Princeton University United States 70.541.1%9.7×16 -28.7%
5University of Chicago United States 61.715.1%8.7×27 +52.7%
6University of Cologne Germany 60.239.4%7.0×9 +66.8%
7London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 60.112.9%18.7×17 +48.4%
8New York University United States 60.024.3%7.2×22 +21.5%
9University of Basel Switzerland 59.327.3%9.8×10 -5.6%
10University of Amsterdam Netherlands 57.625.2%7.2×14 +19.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is General Decision Sciences research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 0% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2015. The fastest-growing topics are Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

What does General Decision Sciences include?