2026 Iyad Rahwan: 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	56	1850	1667	54	44	244	18479
Computer Science	55	4213	4096	185	179	226	17519

Iyad Rahwan 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 Iyad Rahwan sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 244 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.

Iyad Rahwan 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 Iyad Rahwan sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 77th percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Iyad Rahwan is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within social sciences, with a primary focus on the intersection of technology, morality, and society.

Their recent publications include studies on a range of topics linking artificial intelligence and human behavior. Notable papers are:

Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making (2024), published in PNAS Nexus
Bad machines corrupt good morals (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
Who Gets Credit for AI-Generated Art? (2020), published in iScience
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (2023), published in Annual Review of Psychology

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

Jean-Franĉois Bonnefon
Manuel Cebrián
Edmond Awad
Azim Shariff
Alex Rutherford

Iyad Rahwan publishes regularly in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Nature Human Behaviour
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Communications

Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with subfields including:

Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Economics and Econometrics

Key topics in their research include:

Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
Regional resilience and development

Among professional distinctions, Iyad Rahwan was named an ACM Senior Member in 2010.

Best Publications

The Moral Machine experiment

Edmond Awad;Sohan Dsouza;Richard Kim;Jonathan Schulz

1921
Citations
The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

Jean-François Bonnefon;Azim F. Shariff;Iyad Rahwan

1804
Citations
Machine behaviour

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1302
Citations
Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

Iyad Rahwan;Guillermo R. Simari

1057
Citations
Using millions of emoji occurrences to learn any-domain representations for detecting sentiment, emotion and sarcasm

Bjarke Felbo;Alan Mislove;Anders Søgaard;Iyad Rahwan

969
Citations
Argumentation-based negotiation

Iyad Rahwan;Sarvapali D. Ramchurn;Nicholas R. Jennings;Peter Mcburney

709
Citations
Society-in-the-loop: programming the algorithmic social contract

Iyad Rahwan

693
Citations
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Morgan R. Frank;David Autor;James E. Bessen;Erik Brynjolfsson;Erik Brynjolfsson

574
Citations
Intelligent agents for automated one-to-many e-commerce negotiation

Iyad Rahwan;Ryszard Kowalczyk;Ha Hai Pham

452
Citations
Towards an argument interchange format

Carlos Chesñevar;Jarred McGinnis;Sanjay Modgil;Iyad Rahwan

449
Citations
Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change.

Nicholas Obradovich;Nicholas Obradovich;Robyn Migliorini;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Iyad Rahwan

431
Citations
A genetic algorithm approach for location-inventory-routing problem with perishable products

Abdelhalim Hiassat;Ali Diabat;Iyad Rahwan

359
Citations
Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles

Azim Shariff;Jean-François Bonnefon;Iyad Rahwan

357
Citations
Time-Critical Social Mobilization

Galen Pickard;Wei Pan;Iyad Rahwan;Iyad Rahwan;Manuel Cebrian

302
Citations
Laying the foundations for a World Wide Argument Web

Iyad Rahwan;Fouad Zablith;Chris Reed

273
Citations
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

Michael Rovatsos;Iyad Rahwan;Felix Fischer;Gerhard Weiss

259
Citations
Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants.

Edmond Awad;Sohan Dsouza;Azim Shariff;Iyad Rahwan

244
Citations
Cooperating with machines.

Jacob W. Crandall;Mayada Oudah;Tennom;Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko

236
Citations
Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills

Ahmad Alabdulkareem;Ahmad Alabdulkareem;Morgan R. Frank;Lijun Sun;Bedoor AlShebli

194
Citations
Bad machines corrupt good morals.

Nils Köbis;Jean-François Bonnefon;Iyad Rahwan

171
Citations
An argumentation based approach for practical reasoning

Iyad Rahwan;Leila Amgoud

162
Citations
A characterisation of strategy-proofness for grounded argumentation semantics

Iyad Rahwan;Kate Larson;Fernando Tohmé

73
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Cebrian Carlos III University of Madrid

Peter McBurney King's College London

Frank Dignum Umeå University

Chris Reed University of Dundee

Simon Parsons University of Lincoln

Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University

Azim F. Shariff University of British Columbia

Alex Pentland MIT

Nicolas Maudet Sorbonne University

Sanjay Modgil King's College London

External Links

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