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D-Index
61
Citations
26624
World Ranking
28
National Ranking
25

Dan M. Kahan publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan M. Kahan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 155 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Dan M. Kahan D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan M. Kahan sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Dan M. Kahan is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, including History, Gender Studies, Economics and Econometrics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, such as:

  • American Sports and Literature
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Dan M. Kahan has published in a variety of academic venues. These include:

  • Journal of Sports Analytics
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Tennessee journal of law & policy

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dan M. Kahan include:

  • "Fielding before and after baseball's great transformation," 2025, Journal of Sports Analytics
  • "Science Curiosity Scale--Reduced Form," 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset
  • "In the Eye of the Beholder," 2021, Tennessee journal of law & policy

Frequent collaborators in research projects include:

  • Matt Motta
  • Daniel S. Chapman
  • Kathryn Haglin

In 2013, Dan M. Kahan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

    Dan M. Kahan;Ellen Peters;Maggie Wittlin;Paul Slovic

  • Cultural cognition of scientific consensus

    Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins‐Smith;Donald Braman

  • Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;John W. Gastil;Paul Slovic

  • Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

    Dan M. Kahan;Ellen Peters;Erica Cantrell Dawson;Paul Slovic

  • Social Influence, Social Meaning, and Deterrence

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

    Dan M Kahan;Donald Braman

  • Two Conceptions of Emotion in Criminal Law

    Dan M Kahan;Martha C. Nussbaum

  • Fixing the Communications Failure

    Dan Kahan

  • Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Paul Slovic;John W. Gastil

  • The secret ambition of deterrence

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism.

    Dan M. Kahan;David A. Hoffman;Donald Braman

  • The Logic of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, and Law

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn’t, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;John Gastil

  • Gentle Nudges vs. Hard Shoves: Solving the Sticky Norms Problem

    Dan M. Kahan

  • More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman

  • SHAMING WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM OF THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES*

    Dan M. Kahan;Eric A. Posner

  • Social Meaning and the Economic Analysis of Crime

    Dan M. Kahan

  • The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1: What Politically Motivated Reasoning Is and How to Measure It

    Dan M. Kahan

  • 28 Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

    Dan M. Kahan

  • The Oxford handbook of the science of science communication

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson;Dan Kahan;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Lenity and Federal Common Law Crimes

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Law and (Norms of) Order in the Inner City

    Tracey L. Meares;Dan M. Kahan

  • Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Why we are poles apart on climate change.

    Dan Kahan

  • Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization Testing a Two-Channel Model of Science Communication

    Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Tor Tarantola;Carol L. Silva

  • The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change

    Dan Kahan;Ellen Peters;Ellen Peters;Donald Braman;Paul Slovic

  • UPDATING THE STUDY OF PUNISHMENT

    Tracey L. Meares;Dan M. Kahan;Neal Katyal

  • A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines

    Dan M. Kahan

  • The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of—and Making Progress In— the American Culture War of Fact

    Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan;Paul Slovic;John Gastil

  • Signaling or Reciprocating? A Response to Eric Posner's Law and Social Norms

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;Paul Slovic

  • Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation

    Donald Braman;Dan M Kahan;Paul Slovic;John Gastil

  • Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

    Dan M. Kahan;Paul Slovic;Donald Braman;John Gastil

  • Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication: An Empirical Assessment

    Dan M. Kahan

  • Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate

    Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan;James Grimmelmann

  • Making Climate-Science Communication Evidence-Based — All the Way Down

    Dan M. Kahan

  • More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions

    Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gastil
John Gastil Pennsylvania State University
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
Ellen Peters
Ellen Peters University of Oregon
Geoffrey L. Cohen
Geoffrey L. Cohen Stanford University
Tracey L. Meares
Tracey L. Meares Yale University
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson University of Pennsylvania
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith University of Oklahoma
Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner University of Chicago
C. K. Mertz
C. K. Mertz University of Oregon
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia

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