Standout Papers

Simple Heuristics That Ma... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1999 2010 1996 1995 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
    1999 2.3k citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd RePEc: Research Papers in Economics profile →
  2. Heuristic Decision Making
    2010 2.2k citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier Annual Review of Psychology profile →
  3. Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality.
    1996 2.1k citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel G. Goldstein Psychological Review profile →
  4. How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction: Frequency formats.
    1995 1.3k citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Ulrich Hoffrage Psychological Review profile →
  5. Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences
    2009 1.0k citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Henry Brighton Topics in Cognitive Science profile →
  6. Probabilistic mental models: A Brunswikian theory of confidence.
    1991 975 citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Ulrich Hoffrage et al. Psychological Review profile →
  7. Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic.
    2002 846 citations Daniel G. Goldstein, Gerd Gigerenzer Psychological Review profile →
  8. Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox
    2001 816 citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten RePEc: Research Papers in Economics profile →
  9. Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
    2007 812 citations Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier et al. PubMed profile →
  10. How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”
    1991 604 citations Gerd Gigerenzer European Review of Social Psychology profile →
  11. Why Heuristics Work
    2008 590 citations Gerd Gigerenzer Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
  12. Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies?
    1989 563 citations Peter Sedlmeier, Gerd Gigerenzer Psychological Bulletin profile →
  13. On narrow norms and vague heuristics: A reply to Kahneman and Tversky.
    1996 560 citations Gerd Gigerenzer Psychological Review profile →
  14. Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight
    2003 507 citations Gerd Gigerenzer et al. BMJ profile →
  15. Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles.
    2011 441 citations Arie W. Kruglanski, Gerd Gigerenzer Psychological Review profile →
  16. Ecological RationalityIntelligence in the World
    2012 397 citations Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Immediate Impact

18 by Nobel laureates 14 from Science/Nature 114 hit
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Citing Papers

The future of early cancer detection
2022 Hit
Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science
2021 HitNature
8 intermediate papers

Works of Gerd Gigerenzer being referenced

The priority heuristic: Making choices without trade-offs.
2006
Mindless statistics
2004
and 6 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gerd Gigerenzer 10.8k 6.2k 5.8k 5.0k 4.8k 397 35.0k
Baruch Fischhoff 6.9k 0.6× 12.9k 2.1× 4.7k 0.8× 2.7k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 400 33.2k
Colin F. Camerer 11.2k 1.0× 9.9k 1.6× 11.5k 2.0× 9.1k 1.8× 6.2k 1.3× 256 47.0k
Eric J. Johnson 7.7k 0.7× 4.9k 0.8× 5.6k 1.0× 2.4k 0.5× 2.7k 0.5× 178 21.8k
Paul Slovic 13.9k 1.3× 33.8k 5.5× 11.5k 2.0× 5.8k 1.2× 5.6k 1.2× 420 74.4k
Ralph Hertwig 6.4k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 300 15.8k
John W. Payne 8.0k 0.7× 3.7k 0.6× 5.6k 1.0× 2.2k 0.4× 3.2k 0.7× 155 21.3k
James R. Bettman 6.3k 0.6× 7.4k 1.2× 4.2k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 2.6k 0.5× 141 25.6k
George Loewenstein 18.8k 1.7× 14.9k 2.4× 18.1k 3.1× 10.0k 2.0× 3.2k 0.7× 452 65.5k
R. Duncan Luce 4.3k 0.4× 1.3k 0.2× 5.0k 0.9× 5.3k 1.1× 3.3k 0.7× 223 20.0k
Herbert A. Simon 6.0k 0.6× 11.9k 1.9× 13.6k 2.3× 8.1k 1.6× 11.7k 2.4× 458 93.6k

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