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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 215 74 93 24
Business and Management 417 13 14 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 115
Documents by Best Scientists*: 116
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 187
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.383
Impact Factor: 3.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Social psychology, Cognition, Cognitive psychology, Task (project management) and Social relation. Social psychology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Developmental psychology, Perception and Negotiation. The journal features Cognition research that overlaps with concepts in Information processing.

It investigates Social relation research which frequently intersects with Social group. The study on Social group presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Group decision-making.

  • Social psychology (70.07%)
  • Cognition (17.72%)
  • Cognitive psychology (13.63%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The theory of planned behavior (44912 citations)
  • Social cognitive theory of self-regulation☆ (3504 citations)
  • KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: A BASIS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN FIRMS (2906 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes:

The most cited publications primarily tackle Social psychology, Cognition, Social relation, Cognitive psychology and Task (project management). The journal publications facilitate discussions on Social psychology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Developmental psychology and Negotiation. While the primary focus in the published papers is Cognition, they also dissect topics surrounding Overconfidence effect and Self-confidence as a whole.

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

  • Social psychology
  • Statistics
  • Cognition

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes mostly deals with topics like Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Incentive, Perception and Choice architecture. While it focused on Social psychology, it was also able to explore topics like Control (management) and Task (project management). The journal explores issues in Cognitive psychology which can be linked to other research areas like Field (Bourdieu), Process (engineering) and Action (philosophy).

It holds forums on Incentive that merges themes from other disciplines such as Quality (business), Social psychology (sociology), Public economics and Wrongdoing. While work presented in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes provided substantial information on Perception, it also covered topics in Social environment and Affect (psychology). The featured Prosocial behavior studies mainly concentrate on Moral character but also cover areas of interest in Morality.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Isolating the effect of injunctive norms on conservation behavior: New evidence from a field experiment in California (15 citations)
  • Mock meat in the butchery: Nudging consumers toward meat substitutes (12 citations)
  • Active choice, implicit defaults, and the incentive to choose. (7 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 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Margaret A. Neale (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Francesca Gino (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Maurice E. Schweitzer (23 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Max H. Bazerman (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gregory B. Northcraft (20 papers) absent at the last 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 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Northwestern University (95 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (90 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Pennsylvania (85 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Arizona (77 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Harvard University (74 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 10 more than at the previous 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, 1.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 44.32% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.05% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.91% of all publications and 22.73% 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

  • Helping People by Being in the Present: Mindfulness Increases Prosocial Behavior

    Andrew C. Hafenbrack;Lindsey D. Cameron;Gretchen M. Spreitzer;Chen Zhang

    (2020)
    123 Citations
  • Same data, different conclusions : Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis

    Martin Schweinsberg;Michael Feldman;Nicola Staub;Olmo R. van den Akker

    (2021)
    123 Citations
  • Conversational receptiveness: Improving engagement with opposing views

    Michael Yeomans;Julia Minson;Hanne Collins;Frances Chen

    (2020)
    80 Citations
  • Cultivating a conflict-positive workplace: How mindfulness facilitates constructive conflict management

    Adam A. Kay;Daniel P. Skarlicki

    (2020)
    66 Citations
  • Humility breeds authenticity: How authentic leader humility shapes follower vulnerability and felt authenticity

    Burak Oc;Michael A. Daniels;James M. Diefendorff;Michael Ramsay Bashshur

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • Actionable recommendations for narrowing the science-practice gap in open science

    Herman Aguinis;George C. Banks;Steven G. Rogelberg;Wayne F. Cascio

    (2020)
    59 Citations
  • Behavior change

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Mind your own break! The interactive effect of workday respite activities and mindfulness on employee outcomes via affective linkages

    SinHui Chong;You Jin Kim;Hun Whee Lee;Russell E. Johnson

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Mindfulness arrives at work: Deepening our understanding of mindfulness in organizations

    Jochen Reb;Tammy Allen;Timothy J. Vogus

    (2020)
    52 Citations

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