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Judgment and Decision Making
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Judgment and Decision Making

1930-2975

Published by: Cambridge University Press

https://journal.sjdm.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 493 57 90 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 81
Documents by Best Scientists*: 115
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 78
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.032
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Judgment and Decision Making?

Judgment and Decision Making investigates areas of study like Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Econometrics and Preference. The journal focuses on Social psychology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Context (language use) and Risk perception, Perception. The Cognitive psychology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Cognitive Reflection Test.

The work on Econometrics addressed in Judgment and Decision Making expands to the thematically related Statistics.

  • Social psychology (43.15%)
  • Cognitive psychology (16.61%)
  • Cognition (10.18%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk (3015 citations)
  • A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations (658 citations)
  • Measuring Social Value Orientation (452 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Judgment and Decision Making:

The journal papers focus largely on the fields of Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Econometrics and Perception. Developmental psychology and Morality are some topics wherein Social psychology research discussed in the most cited publications has an impact. The Cognition research presented in the published papers focuses mostly on Heuristics and, on occasion, topics in Machine learning.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Social psychology
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Cognitive psychology, Preference, Social psychology, Statistics and Econometrics. While Judgment and Decision Making focused on Cognitive psychology, it was also able to explore topics like Credibility, Contrast (statistics), Replication (statistics), Eye tracking and Fluency. The studies in Preference featured incorporate elements of Dominance (ethology), Ingroups and outgroups, Attractiveness, Two-alternative forced choice and Dishonesty.

Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Social psychology but it intersects with the subject of Random assignment. It discusses concepts in Lottery and Factorial experiment under Statistics and how they intertwine with disciplines like Recipe, Vaccination and Function (mathematics). Intertemporal choice are all disciplines of Econometrics that connect with topics in Wisdom of crowds and Trait.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis (8 citations)
  • Attentional shifts and preference reversals: An eye-tracking study (3 citations)
  • Selection effects on dishonest behavior (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Judgment and Decision Making (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andreas Glöckner (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Slovic (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Rozin (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Benjamin E. Hilbig (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael H. Birnbaum (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Judgment and Decision Making (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (61 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Pennsylvania (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Mannheim (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tilburg University (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yale University (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 82.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 50.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 33.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 0.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs

    Unknown

    (2020)
    132 Citations
  • Beyond “fake news”: Analytic thinking and the detection of false and hyperpartisan news headlines

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Susceptibility to misinformation is consistent across question framings and response modes and better explained by myside bias and partisanship than analytical thinking

    (2022)
    64 Citations
  • Consequences, norms, and inaction: A critical analysis

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • On the Validity of the CNI Model of Moral Decision-Making: Reply to Baron and Goodwin (2020)

    Bertram Gawronski;Paul Conway;Mandy Hütter;Dillon M. Luke

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • On the validity of the CNI model of moral decision-making: Reply to Baron and Goodwin (2020)

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Comparing fast thinking and slow thinking: The relative benefits of interventions, individual differences, and inferential rules

    M. Asher Lawson;Richard P. Larrick;Jack B. Soll

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Forecasting forecaster accuracy: Contributions of past performance and individual differences

    Mark Himmelstein;Pavel Atanasov;David V. Budescu

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Inducing feelings of ignorance makes people more receptive to expert (economist) opinion

    (2020)
    18 Citations

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