Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of social preferences in economic behavior through a wide range of experimental studies. It investigates topics such as reciprocity, cooperation, incentives, gender differences, trust, fairness, altruism, and competition. The research delves into the psychological and behavioral aspects that influence decision-making in economic contexts.

Social Preferences
Economic Experiments
Reciprocity
Cooperation
Incentives
Gender Differences
Trust
Fairness
Altruism
Competition

Research works: 27k
In the world top 10%: 2.8k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -22%
Largest producer: United States

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Which countries lead Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 578 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.2k works
2 China 578 works
3 Germany 420 works
4 United Kingdom 301 works
5 France 174 works
6 Netherlands 155 works
7 Italy 155 works
8 Japan 143 works
9 Canada 115 works
10 Australia 101 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 States1,197 · 35.8%China578 · 17.3%Germany420 · 12.6%United Kingdom301 · 9.0%6 others listed843 · 25.3%

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

Which institutions lead Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research, followed by Max Planck Society and New York University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
2 Max Planck SocietyGermany 38 works
3 New York UniversityUnited States 32 works
4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 29 works
5 University of ZurichSwitzerland 25 works
6 University of ChicagoUnited States 24 works
7 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 24 works
8 Cornell UniversityUnited States 22 works
9 Leibniz AssociationGermany 21 works
10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies include Daniel J. Kahneman, Richard M. Ryan and Amos Tversky.

1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
3 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
4 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
5 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
6 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
7 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
8 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
9 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
10 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

The most cited paper in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies is "The theory of planned behavior" (Icek Ajzen, 1991), with 87,913 citations. Next come "An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict" (12,732) and "A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation" (11,313).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	The theory of planned behavior Icek Ajzen · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes	Dec 1991	87,913
2	An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict Henri Tajfel, John C. Turner Book chapter	18 Mar 2000	12,732
3	A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access	Aug 1999	11,313
4	Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust Denise M. Rousseau, Sim B. Sitkin, Ronald S. Burt et al. · Academy of Management Review	Jul 1998	10,293
5	Social Exchange Theory: An Interdisciplinary Review Russell Cropanzano, Marie S. Mitchell · Journal of Management Open access	8 Nov 2005	9,926

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Where is Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research done?

The largest centres of Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Paris (France) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bonn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 106 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 91 works
3 ParisFrance 63 works
4 ShanghaiChina 61 works
5 New YorkUnited States 60 works
6 TokyoJapan 57 works
7 MunichGermany 53 works
8 AmsterdamNetherlands 42 works
9 BonnGermany 40 works
10 ZurichSwitzerland 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

BonnDE · 40.3 works13×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Yunnan University, University of Zurich and University of Amsterdam 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.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Yunnan UniversityChina	61.4	37.3%	6.3×	9	+284.9%
2	University of ZurichSwitzerland	60.9	20.2%	9.5×	25	-20.3%
3	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	54.0	15.1%	10.6×	24	-26.6%
4	New York UniversityUnited States	52.4	6.7%	7.6×	32	-16.9%
5	University of ChicagoUnited States	50.1	14.5%	7.5×	24	-30.5%
6	Renmin University of ChinaChina	47.1	13.8%	12.7×	15	+118.5%
7	Stanford UniversityUnited States	46.9	13.5%	3.7×	21	-19.9%
8	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany	46.5	7.1%	9.1×	30	-32.7%
9	Bocconi UniversityItaly	45.3	16.9%	39.9×	13	-24.3%
10	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	45.2	17.5%	4.7×	19	-39.6%
11	Cornell UniversityUnited States	45.1	12.5%	4.5×	22	-14.3%
12	Harvard UniversityUnited States	44.0	18.1%	1.4×	17	-35.5%
13	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	43.1	14.5%	8.5×	13	-27.9%
14	University of TorontoCanada	42.6	15.4%	2.6×	19	-17.6%
15	University of LausanneSwitzerland	42.6	15.8%	8.0×	14	-3.4%
16	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	42.4	28.6%	4.3×	9	+3.5%
17	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom	41.3	12.3%	18.1×	16	-37.8%
18	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom	40.9	11.2%	9.5×	16	-11.0%
19	Princeton UniversityUnited States	40.8	17.6%	7.4×	12	-15.8%
20	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	40.7	10.6%	3.2×	17	-39.8%
21	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	40.3	8.1%	4.8×	16	-2.2%
22	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	39.7	15.2%	5.9×	16	-27.8%
23	Indiana UniversityUnited States	39.6	12.3%	4.8×	17	-13.0%
24	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	39.6	20.5%	3.6×	13	-45.4%
25	Columbia UniversityUnited States	39.3	13.4%	4.2×	17	-28.2%
26	Technical University of MunichGermany	39.3	21.6%	3.5×	11	+0.5%
27	National University of SingaporeSingapore	39.1	7.4%	4.4×	19	-17.3%
28	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	38.8	14.5%	2.7×	16	-21.4%
29	University of MichiganUnited States	38.3	13.3%	3.1×	18	-26.8%
30	George Mason UniversityUnited States	38.2	10.5%	14.9×	18	-12.8%
31	Tilburg UniversityNetherlands	37.1	13.0%	23.3×	14	-35.7%
32	Norwegian School of EconomicsNorway	37.0	11.3%	111.0×	12	-7.9%
33	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	36.0	8.9%	7.7×	15	-41.5%
34	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	35.4	12.4%	4.6×	13	-17.5%
35	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States	35.3	14.9%	8.7×	10	-17.1%
36	University of CologneGermany	35.2	13.1%	8.6×	14	-57.0%
37	University of BolognaItaly	35.1	9.6%	4.4×	14	+15.0%
38	University of BonnGermany	35.1	16.0%	7.7×	13	-45.9%
39	Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina	34.9	19.4%	2.1×	9	+71.7%
40	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States	34.6	10.4%	8.1×	12	-39.0%
41	Wuhan UniversityChina	33.4	15.9%	2.1×	11	+16.8%
42	Universität InnsbruckAustria	32.5	10.8%	10.6×	11	-27.6%
43	University of GothenburgSweden	31.8	20.6%	4.8×	8	-57.9%
44	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	29.9	9.9%	3.9×	9	+21.1%
45	University of GroningenNetherlands	29.5	10.9%	4.5×	12	-40.3%
46	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	29.1	7.3%	3.6×	11	+17.9%
47	University of MannheimGermany	28.7	15.0%	26.9×	9	-24.5%
48	Ben-Gurion University of the NegevIsrael	27.7	3.8%	10.3×	14	-30.2%
49	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	27.7	5.8%	7.3×	11	-18.2%
50	University of California, DavisUnited States	27.2	7.9%	3.1×	9	+104.5%
51	University of MilanItaly	27.1	5.3%	4.0×	10	+67.6%
52	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	26.4	13.7%	3.8×	8	-5.9%
53	Shandong UniversityChina	24.7	7.5%	2.2×	11	+204.3%
54	University of Hong KongChina	24.4	7.0%	2.5×	8	-11.0%
55	Zhejiang UniversityChina	19.1	7.9%	0.9×	9	+106.7%
56	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	18.4	3.3%	3.1×	9	-47.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, country by country

Is Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

Fractional works of Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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Which countries lead Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

Where is Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies?

Is Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion