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D-Index
39
Citations
17514
World Ranking
5467
National Ranking
2581

Gary E. Bolton publications per year

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1983 2025

110 publications in total across all disciplines

Gary E. Bolton 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 Gary E. Bolton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 105 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gary E. Bolton 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 Gary E. Bolton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gary E. Bolton is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Decision Sciences and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, and Demography.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics with a strong emphasis on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Auction Theory and Applications, and Game Theory and Applications. Other main topics include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Supply Chain and Inventory Management, and Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing.

Gary E. Bolton has published extensively in various academic journals and conference venues. Frequent publication venues include AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, SSRN Electronic Journal, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and The Economic Journal.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Observability and social image: On the robustness and fragility of reciprocity," 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "When a Nudge Backfires: Combining (Im)Plausible Deniability with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Behavioral Change," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Norm Enforcement in Markets: Group Identity and the Volunteering of Feedback," 2020, The Economic Journal
  • "Decision making under service-level contracts: The role of cost saliency," 2022, Production and Operations Management
  • "Failures in the communication of risk: Decisions and numeracy," 2022, Production and Operations Management

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent co-authors include Axel Ockenfels, Eugen Dimant, Ulrich Schmidt, Tobias Stangl, and Ben Greiner.

Best Publications

  • ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition

    Gary E. Bolton;Axel Ockenfels

  • A comparative model of bargaining: theory and evidence

    Gary Bolton

  • How Effective Are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Investigation

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels

  • Anonymity versus Punishment in Ultimatum Bargaining

    Gary E. Bolton;Rami Zwick

  • Dictator game giving: rules of fairness versus acts of kindness

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Rami Zwick

  • Learning by Doing in the Newsvendor Problem: A Laboratory Investigation of the Role of Experience and Feedback

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • Fair Procedures: Evidence from Games Involving Lotteries*

    Gary E Bolton;Jordi Brandts;Axel Ockenfels

  • Engineering Trust: Reciprocity in the Production of Reputation Information

    Gary Bolton;Ben Greiner;Axel Ockenfels

  • Cooperation among strangers with limited information about reputation

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels

  • An experimental test for gender differences in beneficent behavior

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • Managers and Students as Newsvendors

    Gary E. Bolton;Axel Ockenfels;Ulrich W. Thonemann

  • Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions

    Ido Erev;Ernan Haruvy;John H. Kagel;Alvin E. Roth

  • An experimental test of the crowding out hypothesis: The nature of beneficent behavior

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • Measuring Motivations for the Reciprocal Responses Observed in a Simple Dilemma Game

    Gary E. Bolton;Jordi Brandts;Axel Ockenfels

  • Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States: Comment

    Gary E. Bolton;Axel Ockenfels

  • Adaptive learning versus punishment in ultimatum bargaining

    Klaus Abbink;Gary E. Bolton;Abdolkarim Sadrieh;Fang Fang Tang

  • Strategy and equity: an ERC-analysis of the Gu¨th-van Damme game

    Gary E. Bolton;Axel Ockenfels

  • Estimating the Influence of Fairness on Bargaining Behavior

    Arnaud De Bruyn;Gary E. Bolton

  • A laboratory study of the benefits of including uncertainty information in weather forecasts

    Mark S. Roulston;Gary E. Bolton;Andrew N. Kleit;Addison L. Sears-Collins

  • Social responsibility promotes conservative risk behavior

    Gary E. Bolton;Axel Ockenfels;Julia Stauf

  • How Effective are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms

    Gary Bolton

  • How Effective are Online Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Study

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels;Axel Ockenfels

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne
Elena Katok
Elena Katok The University of Texas at Dallas
Jordi Brandts
Jordi Brandts Instituto de Análisis Económico
Ulrich W. Thonemann
Ulrich W. Thonemann University of Cologne
Ulrich Schmidt
Ulrich Schmidt Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth Stanford University
Alan G. Sanfey
Alan G. Sanfey Radboud University
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Ernan Haruvy
Ernan Haruvy McGill University
Daniel J. Friedman
Daniel J. Friedman National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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