Balázs Aczél

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Balázs Aczél is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Balázs Aczél has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in General Decision Sciences and 9 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Balázs Aczél's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (13 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (9 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (8 papers). Balázs Aczél is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (13 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (9 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (8 papers). Balázs Aczél collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Balázs Aczél's co-authors include Barnabás Szászi, Aba Szollosi, Bence Pálfi, Alex O. Holcombe, Márton Kovács, Bence Bagó, Tanja van der Lippe, Luis Jiménez, Jamie Brown and Scott Barry Kaufman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Balázs Aczél

48 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Balázs Aczél Hungary	16	302	182	173	157	154	49	1.2k
Anna van 't Veer Netherlands	12	242 0.8×	296 1.6×	268 1.5×	271 1.7×	63 0.4×	19	1.2k
Susann Fiedler Germany	17	487 1.6×	300 1.6×	399 2.3×	346 2.2×	106 0.7×	41	1.9k
Barnabás Szászi Hungary	11	94 0.3×	142 0.8×	148 0.9×	90 0.6×	44 0.3×	22	747
Alexander C. DeHaven United States	5	151 0.5×	108 0.6×	159 0.9×	315 2.0×	56 0.4×	14	1.1k
Annie Franco United States	6	89 0.3×	115 0.6×	257 1.5×	274 1.7×	59 0.4×	7	1.1k
Gábor Simonovits United States	13	97 0.3×	144 0.8×	446 2.6×	274 1.7×	60 0.4×	32	1.5k
Michael Schulte‐Mecklenbeck Switzerland	18	386 1.3×	231 1.3×	248 1.4×	36 0.2×	70 0.5×	36	1.6k
Tom E Hardwicke United States	18	265 0.9×	171 0.9×	225 1.3×	738 4.7×	101 0.7×	36	1.9k
Christopher J. Bryan United States	16	182 0.6×	480 2.6×	417 2.4×	30 0.2×	115 0.7×	25	1.5k
Jennifer Fogo United States	5	114 0.4×	248 1.4×	230 1.3×	176 1.1×	215 1.4×	9	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Balázs Aczél

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All Works

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Bartos̆, Frantis̆ek, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balázs Aczél, et al.. (2025). Introducing synchronous robustness reports. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(4). 635–637. 1 indexed citations

Bartos̆, Frantis̆ek, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balázs Aczél, et al.. (2025). Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2 indexed citations

Acar, Oguz A., Ali H. Al‐Hoorie, Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif, et al.. (2025). Core principles of responsible generative AI usage in research. AI and Ethics. 5(6). 6371–6377. 1 indexed citations

Davis‐Stober, Clintin P., Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balázs Aczél, et al.. (2025). How can we make sound replication decisions?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2401236121–e2401236121. 1 indexed citations

Binz, Marcel, Adina L. Roskies, Balázs Aczél, et al.. (2025). How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2401227121–e2401227121. 14 indexed citations

Wagenmakers, Eric‐Jan, Alexandra Sarafoglou, & Balázs Aczél. (2023). Facing the Unknown Unknowns of Data Analysis. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 32(5). 362–368. 1 indexed citations

Ravenzwaaij, Don van, et al.. (2022). SampleSizePlanner: A Tool to Estimate and Justify Sample Size for Two-Group Studies. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 5(1). 12 indexed citations

Hoekstra, Rink, et al.. (2021). The Role of Human Fallibility in Psychological Research: A Survey of Mistakes in Data Management. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 4(4). 5 indexed citations

Buchanan, Erin Michelle, et al.. (2021). Getting Started Creating Data Dictionaries: How to Create a Shareable Data Set. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 4(1). 14 indexed citations

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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2021). Is there evidence for cross-domain congruency sequence effect? A replication of Kan et al . (2013). Royal Society Open Science. 8(3). 191353–191353. 12 indexed citations

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Wagenmakers, Eric‐Jan, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Sil Aarts, et al.. (2021). Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(11). 1473–1480. 29 indexed citations

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Kovács, Márton, Frederik Aust, Alex O. Holcombe, & Balázs Aczél. (2020). marton-balazs-kovacs/tenzing: tenzing: documening contributorship with CRediT. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Holcombe, Alex O., Márton Kovács, Frederik Aust, & Balázs Aczél. (2020). Documenting contributions to scholarly articles using CRediT and tenzing. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0244611–e0244611. 37 indexed citations

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Aczél, Balázs, Bence Pálfi, Aba Szollosi, et al.. (2018). Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1(3). 357–366. 78 indexed citations

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Szászi, Barnabás, et al.. (2017). A Systematic Scoping Review of the Choice Architecture Movement: Toward Understanding When and Why Nudges Work. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 31(3). 355–366. 178 indexed citations

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Szászi, Barnabás, Aba Szollosi, Bence Pálfi, & Balázs Aczél. (2017). The cognitive reflection test revisited: exploring the ways individuals solve the test. Thinking & Reasoning. 23(3). 207–234. 54 indexed citations

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Aczél, Balázs, Aba Szollosi, & Bence Bagó. (2017). The Effect of Transparency on Framing Effects in Within‐Subject Designs. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 31(1). 25–39. 11 indexed citations

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Szollosi, Aba, Bence Bagó, Barnabás Szászi, & Balázs Aczél. (2017). Exploring the determinants of confidence in the bat-and-ball problem. Acta Psychologica. 180. 1–7. 11 indexed citations

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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2015). An empirical analysis of the methodology of automatic imitation research in a strategic context.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 41(4). 1049–1062. 3 indexed citations

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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2005). Unity or Fractionality of Implicit Learning: A Methodological Aspect. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 1 indexed citations

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