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Thomas J. Dohmen

Thomas J. Dohmen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
21505
World Ranking
4243
National Ranking
113

Thomas J. Dohmen 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 Thomas J. Dohmen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 134 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas J. Dohmen 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 Thomas J. Dohmen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas J. Dohmen is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and specializes in research within the social sciences. Their academic work primarily focuses on several interconnected fields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, safety research, general decision sciences, and demography.

Their research covers key topics such as decision-making and behavioral economics, experimental behavioral economics studies, culture, economy, and development studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, religion and society interactions, and employment and welfare studies.

Thomas J. Dohmen has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal with 15 publications. Other common venues include the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Labour Economics, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Among recent papers, the following are notable examples:

  • Patience and Comparative Development, 2021, The Review of Economic Studies
  • How people know their risk preference, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes and Personality Traits, 2020, The Economic Journal
  • Mission of the company, prosocial attitudes and job preferences: A discrete choice experiment, 2021, Labour Economics
  • Patience and Comparative Development, 2021, Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen)

In their collaborative efforts, Thomas J. Dohmen has worked frequently with the following scholars:

  • Armin Falk
  • Uwe Sunde
  • David Huffman
  • Benjamin Enke
  • Gerrit Meyerheim

Best Publications

  • Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;Benjamin Enke

  • Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability

    Thomas J Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Individual risk attitudes: New evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk;David B. Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

  • Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum

    Klaus Fliessbach;Bernd Weber;P. Trautner;Thomas Dohmen

  • Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences, and Gender

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

  • Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes

    Holger Bonin;Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman

  • The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;David B. Huffman

  • Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

    David A. Jaeger;Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman

  • The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

    Anke Becker;Thomas Deckers;Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

  • Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Behavioural Outcomes

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL FORCES: EVIDENCE FROM THE BEHAVIOR OF FOOTBALL REFEREES

    Thomas J. Dohmen

  • Representative Trust and Reciprocity: Prevalence and Determinants

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • Do professionals choke under pressure

    Thomas J. Dohmen

  • Risk Attitudes Across The Life Course

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk;Bart H. H. Golsteyn;David Huffman

  • Representative trust and reciprocity: Prevalence and determenants

    Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk;David Huffman;Uwe Sunde

  • The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

    Armin Falk;Anke Becker;Thomas Dohmen;Benjamin Enke

  • Relative versus absolute income, joy of winning, and gender: Brain imaging evidence

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;Klaus Fliessbach;Uwe Sunde

  • Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

    David A. Jaeger;Holger Bonin;Thomas Dohmen;Armin Falk

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Falk
Armin Falk University of Bonn
Uwe Sunde
Uwe Sunde Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Mark E. Schaffer
Mark E. Schaffer Heriot-Watt University
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau

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