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2022

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
101
Citations
37364
World Ranking
100
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Magnus Johannesson is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, experimental and cognitive psychology, safety research, and economics and econometrics.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics including experimental behavioral economics studies, sexual differentiation and disorders, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, behavioral health and interventions, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Magnus Johannesson has contributed to numerous papers published in reputable venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams (2020, Nature)
  • Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results (2020, Psychological Bulletin)
  • Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments (2021, Cortex)
  • Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability (2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Anna Dreber
  • Felix Holzmeister
  • Thomas Pfeiffer
  • Michael Kirchler
  • Jürgen Huber

Magnus Johannesson's research frequently appears in journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in Economics

    Colin Camerer;Anna Dreber;Eskil Forsell;Teck Ho

  • Principles of Good Practice for Decision Analytic Modeling in Health-Care Evaluation: Report of the ISPOR Task Force on Good Research Practices—Modeling Studies

    Milton C. Weinstein;Bernie O'Brien;John Hornberger;Joseph Jackson

  • Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory

    Tore Ellingsen;Magnus Johannesson

  • Swedish population health-related quality of life results using the EQ-5D.

    Kristina Burström;Magnus Johannesson;Finn Diderichsen

  • Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?

    Carl Mellström;Magnus Johannesson

  • The relationship between happiness, health, and socio-economic factors : Results based on Swedish microdata

    Ulf G. Gerdtham;Magnus Johannesson

  • Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk-Taking

    David Cesarini;Christopher T. Dawes;Magnus Johannesson;Paul Lichtenstein

  • Promises, Threats and Fairness*

    Tore Ellingsen;Magnus Johannesson

  • Gender differences in deception

    Anna Dreber;Magnus Johannesson

  • Cost Effectiveness of Simvastatin Treatment to Lower Cholesterol Levels in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

    Magnus Johannesson;Bengt Jönsson;John Kjekshus;Anders G. Olsson

  • Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game

    David Cesarini;Christopher T. Dawes;James H. Fowler;Magnus Johannesson

  • ELICITING WILLINGNESS TO PAY WITHOUT BIAS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT*

    Karen Blumenschein;Glenn C. Blomquist;Magnus Johannesson;Nancy Horn

  • Genetic Variation in Financial Decision-Making

    David Cesarini;Magnus Johannesson;Paul Lichtenstein;ÖRjan Sandewall

  • Testing guilt aversion

    Tore Ellingsen;Magnus Johannesson;Sigve Tjøtta;Gaute Torsvik

  • The Aversion to Lying

    Tobias Lundquist;Tore Ellingsen;Erik Gribbe;Magnus Johannesson

  • Swedish experience-based value sets for EQ-5D health states

    Kristina Burström;Kristina Burström;Sun Sun;Sun Sun;Ulf-G Gerdtham;Martin Henriksson

  • Using prediction markets to estimate the reproducibility of scientific research

    Anna Dreber;Thomas Pfeiffer;Johan Almenberg;Siri Isaksson

  • The Genetic Architecture of Economic and Political Preferences

    Daniel J. Benjamin;David Cesarini;David Cesarini;Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos;Christopher T. Dawes

  • Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior

    Nicola Barban;Rick Jansen;Ronald De Vlaming;Ahmad Vaez;Ahmad Vaez

  • Health-related quality of life by disease and socio-economic group in the general population in Sweden

    Kristina Burström;Magnus Johannesson;Finn Diderichsen

  • Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing No Effect on Hormones and Risk Tolerance in a Large Sample of Men and Women

    Eva Ranehill;Anna Dreber;Magnus Johannesson;Susanne Leiberg

  • On the decision rules of cost-effectiveness analysis.

    Magnus Johannesson;Milton C. Weinstein

Frequent Co-Authors

David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
Philipp D. Koellinger
Philipp D. Koellinger Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
David Laibson
David Laibson Harvard University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tore Ellingsen
Tore Ellingsen Stockholm School of Economics
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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