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Cornelia Betsch publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cornelia Betsch sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 241 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Cornelia Betsch D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cornelia Betsch sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cornelia Betsch is affiliated with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Germany and has an extensive research background primarily in the social sciences with a focus on health-related topics. Their work spans several subfields including health, sociology and political science, modeling and simulation, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's research interests concentrate on important societal and health challenges such as vaccine coverage and hesitancy, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, misinformation and its impacts, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, COVID-19 and mental health, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and influenza virus research studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Betsch demonstrate their involvement in behavioral and social dimensions of public health, particularly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These include:

  • Monitoring behavioural insights related to COVID-19 (2020, The Lancet)
  • Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • How behavioural science data helps mitigate the COVID-19 crisis (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Vaccination as a social contract (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Betsch has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors including Philipp Sprengholz, Lars Korn, Sarah Eitze, Lisa Felgendreff, and Philipp Schmid, reflecting a sustained research network.

Their publications are mainly featured in reputable scientific outlets such as Psychology Archives, Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE, and BMC Public Health.

In addition to articles, Betsch has contributed to book publications, notably with the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, which published their work titled The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Barriers of Influenza Vaccination Intention and Behavior – A Systematic Review of Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy, 2005 – 2016

    Philipp Schmid;Dorothee Rauber;Cornelia Betsch;Gianni Lidolt

  • Beyond confidence: Development of a measure assessing the 5C psychological antecedents of vaccination.

    Cornelia Betsch;Philipp Schmid;Dorothee Heinemeier;Lars Korn

  • The influence of vaccine-critical websites on perceiving vaccination risks.

    Cornelia Betsch;Frank Renkewitz;Tilmann Betsch;Corina Ulshöfer

  • Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook

    Ana Lucía Schmidt;Fabiana Zollo;Antonio Scala;Cornelia Betsch

  • Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions.

    Cornelia Betsch;Noel T. Brewer;Pauline Brocard;Patrick Davies

  • The Influence of Narrative v. Statistical Information on Perceiving Vaccination Risks

    Cornelia Betsch;Corina Ulshöfer;Frank Renkewitz;Tilmann Betsch

  • On the benefits of explaining herd immunity in vaccine advocacy

    Cornelia Betsch;Robert Böhm;Lars Korn;Cindy Holtmann

  • Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Vaccination Policy Effectiveness

    Cornelia Betsch;Robert Böhm;Gretchen B. Chapman

  • Monitoring behavioural insights related to COVID-19.

    Cornelia Betsch;Lothar H Wieler;Katrine Habersaat

  • Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Cornelia Betsch;Lars Korn;Philipp Sprengholz;Lisa Felgendreff

  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition.

    Katrine Bach Habersaat;Cornelia Betsch;Margie Danchin;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Intuition in judgment and decision making

    Henning Plessner;Cornelia Betsch;Tilmann Betsch

  • Effective strategies for rebutting science denialism in public discussions.

    Philipp Schmid;Cornelia Betsch

  • How behavioural science data helps mitigate the COVID-19 crisis.

    Cornelia Betsch

  • Inviting free-riders or appealing to prosocial behavior? game-theoretical reflections on communicating herd immunity in vaccine advocacy.

    Cornelia Betsch;Robert Böhm;Lars Korn

  • Debunking vaccination myths: strong risk negations can increase perceived vaccination risks.

    Cornelia Betsch;Katharina Sachse

  • Mandate vaccination with care.

    Saad B. Omer;Cornelia Betsch;Julie Leask

  • Individual strategy preferences and decisional fit

    Cornelia Betsch;Justus Julius Kunz

  • E-health use, vaccination knowledge and perception of own risk: Drivers of vaccination uptake in medical students

    Cornelia Betsch;Sabine Wicker

  • Vaccination as a social contract

    Lars Korn;Robert Böhm;Nicolas W Meier;Cornelia Betsch

  • Beyond Confidence: Measuring the 5C Psychological Antecedents of Vaccination

    Cornelia Betsch;Philipp Schmid;Dorothee Heinemeier;Lars Korn

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bosnjak
Michael Bosnjak University of Trier
Saad B. Omer
Saad B. Omer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ole Wichmann
Ole Wichmann Robert Koch Institute
Oliver Tüscher
Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Julie Leask
Julie Leask University of Sydney
Frauke Kreuter
Frauke Kreuter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ingo Zettler
Ingo Zettler University of Copenhagen
Charles Shey Wiysonge
Charles Shey Wiysonge South African Medical Research Council
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz University of Basel

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