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40
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42

Roberto A. Weber 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 Roberto A. Weber sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roberto A. Weber 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 Roberto A. Weber sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Roberto A. Weber is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and contributes primarily to social sciences. The scientist's research spans several subfields including safety research, demography, sociology and political science, gender studies, and strategy and management.

Weber's work addresses a variety of topics with a strong focus on experimental behavioral economics studies. Other main topics include culture, economy, and development studies, corporate social responsibility reporting, ethics in business and education, gender, labor, and family dynamics, decision-making and behavioral economics, and social capital and networks.

Frequent publication venues for Weber include the SSRN Electronic Journal with 17 publications, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) with 5, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials with 4, Management Science with 2, and Experimental Economics with 2 publications.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on leadership, gender preferences, social norms, and strategic beliefs. Notable papers include:

  • "Just Words? Just Speeches?" On the Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership, 2021, Management Science
  • Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution, 2022, Experimental Economics
  • Economic perspectives on leadership: Concepts, causality, and context in leadership research, 2020, The Leadership Quarterly
  • "When in Rome": Identifying social norms using coordination games, 2022, Judgment and Decision Making
  • On self-serving strategic beliefs, 2020, Games and Economic Behavior

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Eva Ranehill, Florian Schneider, Lea Heursen, Björn Bartling, and Vanessa Valero.

Best Publications

  • Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness

    Jason Dana;Roberto A. Weber;Jason Xi Kuang

  • IDENTIFYING SOCIAL NORMS USING COORDINATION GAMES: WHY DOES DICTATOR GAME SHARING VARY?

    Erin L. Krupka;Roberto A. Weber

  • Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach

    Roberto A. Weber;Colin F. Camerer

  • The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior.

    Erin Krupka;Roberto A. Weber

  • Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

    Thomas Astebro;Holger Herz;Ramana Nanda;Roberto Weber

  • Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences

    Edward P Lazear;Ulrike Malmendier;Roberto A Weber

  • Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship

    John R Hamman;George F. Loewenstein;Roberto A. Weber

  • Managing Growth to Achieve Efficient Coordination in Large Groups

    Roberto A. Weber

  • 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

  • The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games

    Roberto Weber;Colin Camerer;Yuval Rottenstreich;Marc Knez

  • Self-serving interpretations of ambiguity in other-regarding behavior☆

    Emily C. Haisley;Roberto A. Weber

  • Do Markets Erode Social Responsibility

    Björn Bartling;Roberto A. Weber;Lan Yao

  • Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically

    Francesca Gino;Michael I. Norton;Roberto A. Weber

  • ‘Learning’ with no feedback in a competitive guessing game

    Roberto A. Weber

  • The econometrics and behavioral economics of escalation of commitment: a re-examination of Staw and Hoang’s NBA data

    Colin F. Camerer;Roberto A. Weber

  • On the Persistence of Strategic Sophistication

    Sotiris Georganas;Paul J. Healy;Roberto A. Weber

  • An Experimental Investigation of Electoral Delegation and the Provision of Public Goods

    John R. Hamman;Roberto A. Weber;Jonathan Woon

  • Legitimacy, Communication, and Leadership in the Turnaround Game

    Jordi Brandts;David J. Cooper;Roberto A. Weber

  • Timing and Virtual Observability in Ultimatum Bargaining and 'Weak Link' Coordination Games

    Roberto A. Weber;Colin F. Camerer;Marc Knez

  • “Just Words? Just Speeches?” On the Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership

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  • Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach

    Colin Camerer;Roberto A. Weber;Roberto A. Weber

  • Replication data for: Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences

    Edward P. Lazear;Ulrike Malmendier;Roberto A. Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology
Edward P. Lazear
Edward P. Lazear Stanford University
Ramana Nanda
Ramana Nanda Imperial College London
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Ulrike Malmendier
Ulrike Malmendier University of California, Berkeley
Jordi Brandts
Jordi Brandts Instituto de Análisis Económico
John W. Patty
John W. Patty Emory University
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Alice H. Eagly
Alice H. Eagly Northwestern University

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