2026 William E. Becker: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	45	1723	1548	1017	890	171	14365

Overview

William E. Becker is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including immunology, statistics, probability and uncertainty, economics and econometrics, oncology, and computational theory and mathematics. The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as immunotherapy and immune responses, probabilistic and robust engineering design, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, energy and environment impacts, advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, and optimal experimental design methods.

Their recent papers include:

The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
Resilience and economics of microgrids with PV, battery storage, and networked diesel generators, 2021, Advances in Applied Energy
Development of a bioeconomy monitoring framework for the European Union: An integrative and collaborative approach, 2020, New Biotechnology
Polynomial chaos expansion for sensitivity analysis of model output with dependent inputs, 2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
A COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISON OF TOTAL-ORDER ESTIMATORS FOR GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, 2021, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification

William E. Becker frequently publishes in venues such as Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, Environmental Modelling & Software, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, The Journal of Immunology, and Advances in Applied Energy.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Jay A. Berzofsky, Purevdorj B. Olkhanud, Hoyoung Maeng, Michaela Saisana, and Noriko Seishima.

Main fields of study: Immunology, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Economics and Econometrics, Oncology, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Main topics of work: Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Energy and Environment Impacts, Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Optimal Experimental Design Methods
Frequent publication venues: Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, Environmental Modelling & Software, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, The Journal of Immunology, Advances in Applied Energy
Frequent co-authors: Jay A. Berzofsky, Purevdorj B. Olkhanud, Hoyoung Maeng, Michaela Saisana, Noriko Seishima

Best Publications

Information rules - a strategic guide to the network economy

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5446
Citations
Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: A systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices

Andrea Saltelli;Andrea Saltelli;Ksenia Aleksankina;William Becker;Pamela Fennell

792
Citations
Teaching Economics to Undergraduates

William E. Becker

694
Citations
The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support

Saman Razavi;Anthony Jakeman;Andrea Saltelli;Clémentine Prieur

527
Citations
Weights and importance in composite indicators: Closing the gap.

William Becker;Michaela Saisana;Paolo Paruolo;Ine Vandecasteele

459
Citations
Chalk and Talk: A National Survey on Teaching Undergraduate Economics

William E Becker;Michael Watts

438
Citations
Teaching Economics at the Start of the 21st Century: Still Chalk-and-Talk

William E. Becker;Michael Watts

362
Citations
Teaching Economics in the 21st Century

William E. Becker

349
Citations
A Little More Than Chalk and Talk: Results from a Third National Survey of Teaching Methods in Undergraduate Economics Courses

Michael Watts;William E. Becker

313
Citations
How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching

William E. Becker;William Bosshardt;Michael Watts

228
Citations
TEACHING TOOLS: TEACHING METHODS IN UNDERGRADUATE ECONOMICS

William E. Becker;Michael Watts

219
Citations
Teaching Methods in U.S. Undergraduate Economics Courses

William E. Becker;Michael Watts

203
Citations
Student performance, attrition, and class size given missing student data

William E. Becker;William E. Becker;John R. Powers

188
Citations
Research on High School Economic Education

William Becker;William Greene;Sherwin Rosen

186
Citations
Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk

William E. Becker;Michael Watts

171
Citations
The learning effect of assessment and evaluation in high school

William E. Becker;Sherwin Rosen

164
Citations
The Relationship between Multiple Choice and Essay Response Questions in Assessing Economics Understanding

William E. Becker;Carol Johnston

151
Citations
A GRAPHICAL EXPOSITION OF THE ORDERED PROBIT

William E. Becker;Peter E. Kennedy

139
Citations
Achievement Differences on Multiple-Choice and Essay Tests in Economics

William Walstad;William E. Becker

136
Citations
Teaching Economics: More Alternatives to Chalk and Talk

William E. Becker;Michael W. Watts;Suzanne R. Becker

120
Citations
Data Loss from Pretest to Posttest as a Sample Selection Problem

William E. Becker;William B. Walstad

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Walstad University of Nebraska–Lincoln

William H. Greene New York University

John J. Siegfried Vanderbilt University

Sherwin Rosen University of Chicago

William J. Baumol New York University

Dan Goldhaber University of Washington

Arlington W. Williams Indiana University

External Links

Personal website of William E. Becker Google Scholar page

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