2026 Detlof von Winterfeldt: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3287	3026	1588	1439	131	15355

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Detlof von Winterfeldt is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within the social sciences and decision sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to topics related to decision-making, infrastructure resilience, terrorism, and political violence.

The main fields of study for von Winterfeldt include:

Social Sciences
Decision Sciences

Within these broad fields, their work delves into the following subfields:

Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics
General Decision Sciences
Civil and Structural Engineering
Management Science and Operations Research

The core topics of research covered by von Winterfeldt include:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Middle East Politics and Society
Forecasting Techniques and Applications
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Von Winterfeldt has published several papers recently, contributing to a range of academic journals. The recent papers include:

"Comparative Analysis of Terrorists' Objectives Hierarchies," 2020, Decision Analysis
"Testing the effectiveness of debiasing techniques to reduce overprecision in the elicitation of subjective continuous probability distributions," 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
"Retrospective Benefit-Cost Analysis of Security-Enhancing and Cost-Saving Technologies," 2020, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
"Risk-Informed Benefit-Cost Analysis for Homeland Security R&D: Methodology and an Application to Evaluating the Advanced Personal Protection System for Wildland Firefighters," 2021, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
"The role of a deductible/credit system for post-disaster public assistance in meeting alternative policy goals," 2020, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

The most frequent publication venues for von Winterfeldt are:

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Decision Analysis
European Journal of Operational Research
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Environment Systems & Decisions

Frequent co-authors include:

Gilberto Montibeller
Johannes Siebert
Valentina Ferretti
Scott Farrow
Stephanie Michelle Thrift

In 2004, von Winterfeldt received the designation of Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Best Publications

A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities

Michel Bruneau;Stephanie E. Chang;Ronald T. Eguchi;George C. Lee

6183
Citations
Improving Risk Communication

Ralph L. Keeney;Detlof von Winterfeldt

771
Citations
Cognitive and Motivational Biases in Decision and Risk Analysis.

Gilberto Montibeller;Detlof von Winterfeldt

599
Citations
Advances in decision analysis : from foundations to applications

Ward Edwards;Ralph F. Jr. Miles;Detlof von Winterfeldt

392
Citations
Eliciting probabilities from experts in complex technical problems

R.L. Keeney;D. von Winterfeldt

387
Citations
Probabilistic risk analysis and terrorism risk.

Barry Charles Ezell;Steven P. Bennett;Detlof Von Winterfeldt;John Sokolowski

346
Citations
Beyond acceptable risk: On the social acceptability of technologies

Harry J. Otway;Detlof Von Winterfeldt

337
Citations
Comparison of weighting judgments in multiattribute utility measurement

Katrin Borcherding;Thomas Eppel;Detlof von Winterfeldt

334
Citations
The effects of splitting attributes on weights in multiattribute utility measurement

Martin Weber;Franz Eisenführ;Detlof von Winterfeldt

297
Citations
Expert judgment in risk analysis and management: process, context, and pitfalls

Harry Otway;Detlof von Winterfeldt

261
Citations
Eliciting public values for complex policy decisions

Ralph L. Keeney;Detlof von Winterfeldt;Thomas Eppel

261
Citations
Anniversary Article: Decision Analysis in Management Science

James E. Smith;Detlof von Winterfeldt

236
Citations
Multi-Attribute Utility Theory: Models and Assessment Procedures

Detlof Von Winterfeldt;Gregory W. Fischer

222
Citations
Communicating Scientific Information About Health and Environmental Risks: Problems and Opportunities from a Social and Behavioral Perspective

Vincent T. Covello;Detlof von Winterfeldt;Paul Slovic

193
Citations
A Risk and Economic Analysis of Dirty Bomb Attacks on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

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185
Citations
Bridging the gap between science and decision making

Detlof von Winterfeldt

184
Citations
Structuring decision problems for decision analysis

Detlof von Winterfeldt

178
Citations
Costs and payoffs in perceptual research.

Detlof von Winterfeldt;Ward Edwards

176
Citations
Public values in risk debates

Ward Edwards;Detlof von Winterfeldt

160
Citations
Identifying and structuring the objectives of terrorists.

Gregory L. Keeney;Detlof von Winterfeldt

157
Citations
Comparing Hierarchical and Nonhierarchical Weighting Methods for Eliciting Multiattribute Value Models

William G. Stillwell;Detlof von Winterfeldt;Richard S. John

156
Citations
Decision analysis in Management Science

James E. Smith;Detlof Von Winterfeldt

146
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ward Edwards University of Southern California

Richard S. John University of Southern California

Martin Weber University of Mannheim

Robin Gregory University of British Columbia

Charles N. Haas Drexel University

Chris Janiszewski University of Florida

Scott Atran University of Oxford

Paul Slovic University of Oregon

Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College

Andrew Collins University of Oslo

External Links

Personal website of Detlof von Winterfeldt

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