Dražen Prelec

18.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
68 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Dražen Prelec is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Dražen Prelec has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in General Decision Sciences, 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 20 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Dražen Prelec's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (38 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (18 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (17 papers). Dražen Prelec is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (38 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (18 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (17 papers). Dražen Prelec collaborates with scholars based in United States, Croatia and United Kingdom. Dražen Prelec's co-authors include George Loewenstein, Leslie K. John, Dan Ariely, R. J. Herrnstein, Brian Knutson, G. Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, Duncan Simester, George Lowenstein and Jane Ebert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Dražen Prelec

67 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interp... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 2012 1998 2003 1998 500 1000 1.5k
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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation
    1992 1.5k citations George Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec profile →
  2. Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling
    2012 1.3k citations George Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec et al. profile →
  3. The Probability Weighting Function
    1998 1.2k citations Dražen Prelec profile →
  4. "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences
    2003 967 citations George Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec et al. profile →
  5. The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
    1998 928 citations Dražen Prelec, George Loewenstein profile →
  6. Neural Predictors of Purchases
    2007 763 citations Brian Knutson, Scott Rick et al. Neuron profile →
  7. Preferences for sequences of outcomes.
    1993 539 citations George Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dražen Prelec United States 35 4.4k 3.8k 1.7k 1.6k 1.6k 68 11.2k
Shane Frederick United States 26 4.9k 1.1× 4.1k 1.1× 1.8k 1.1× 1.8k 1.1× 784 0.5× 49 11.7k
Ted O’Donoghue United States 29 5.2k 1.2× 6.7k 1.7× 2.0k 1.2× 942 0.6× 918 0.6× 49 12.9k
Daniel G. Goldstein United States 37 3.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 985 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 743 0.5× 129 9.2k
Robin M. Hogarth Spain 54 6.0k 1.4× 3.7k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 152 16.0k
Aldo Rustichini United States 52 2.9k 0.7× 5.0k 1.3× 4.3k 2.5× 1.8k 1.1× 515 0.3× 204 12.9k
Itamar Simonson United States 46 4.4k 1.0× 3.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 6.0k 3.8× 100 12.7k
Christopher K. Hsee United States 35 2.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 110 9.8k
Barbara A. Mellers United States 48 2.9k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 945 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 633 0.4× 151 8.2k
Ido Erev Israel 40 4.2k 0.9× 2.5k 0.7× 3.0k 1.8× 1.4k 0.9× 327 0.2× 146 9.6k
Irwin P. Levin United States 45 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 632 0.4× 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 156 8.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dražen Prelec

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McCoy, John & Dražen Prelec. (2023). A Bayesian Hierarchical Model of Crowd Wisdom Based on Predicting Opinions of Others. Management Science. 4 indexed citations
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Bleichrodt, Han, et al.. (2022). Beta-Delta or Delta-Tau? A Reformulation of Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting. Management Science. 68(8). 6326–6335. 3 indexed citations
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Banker, Sachin, et al.. (2021). Neural mechanisms of credit card spending. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4070–4070. 18 indexed citations
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Galešić, Mirta, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jonas Dalege, et al.. (2021). Human social sensing is an untapped resource for computational social science. Nature. 595(7866). 214–222. 53 indexed citations
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Radas, Sonja & Dražen Prelec. (2021). Predicted preference conjoint analysis. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256010–e0256010. 1 indexed citations
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Radas, Sonja & Dražen Prelec. (2019). Whose data can we trust: How meta-predictions can be used to uncover credible respondents in survey data. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0225432–e0225432. 4 indexed citations
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Cvitanić, Jakša, Dražen Prelec, Sonja Radas, & Hrvoje Šikić. (2018). Game of Duels: Information-Theoretic Axiomatization of Scoring Rules. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65(1). 530–537. 2 indexed citations
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Banker, Sachin, et al.. (2017). Pain of Payment and the Moral Tax: the Neural Basis of the Credit Card Effect. ACR North American Advances. 2 indexed citations
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Prelec, Dražen, H. Sebastian Seung, & John McCoy. (2017). A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem. Nature. 541(7638). 532–535. 175 indexed citations
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Collell, Guillem, Dražen Prelec, & Kaustubh R. Patil. (2017). A simple plug-in bagging ensemble based on threshold-moving for classifying binary and multiclass imbalanced data. Neurocomputing. 275. 330–340. 112 indexed citations
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Pascual‐Ezama, David, et al.. (2015). Peer Effects in Unethical Behavior: Standing or Reputation?. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122305–e0122305. 28 indexed citations
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Hedden, Trey, et al.. (2014). Personality influences temporal discounting preferences: Behavioral and brain evidence. NeuroImage. 98. 42–49. 42 indexed citations
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Oliver, Adam, Gwyn Bevan, Paul Slovic, et al.. (2013). Behavioural Public Policy. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 75 indexed citations
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Prelec, Dražen, et al.. (2009). Self-deception as self-signalling: a model and experimental evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 365(1538). 227–240. 77 indexed citations
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Ebert, Jane & Dražen Prelec. (2008). The Special Fragility of Time: Time-Insensitivity and Valuation of Near and Far Future. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Knutson, Brian, G. Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, et al.. (2008). Neural Antecedents of the Endowment Effect. Neuron. 58(5). 814–822. 113 indexed citations
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Ebert, Jane & Dražen Prelec. (2007). The Fragility of Time: Time-Insensitivity and Valuation of the Near and Far Future. Management Science. 53(9). 1423–1438. 187 indexed citations
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Knutson, Brian, Scott Rick, G. Elliott Wimmer, Dražen Prelec, & George Loewenstein. (2007). Neural Predictors of Purchases. Neuron. 53(1). 147–156. 763 indexed citations breakdown →
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Camerer, Colin F., et al.. (2004). Neuroeconomia, ovvero come le neuroscienze possono dare nuova forma all'economia. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 337–418. 1 indexed citations
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Lowenstein, George & Dražen Prelec. (1991). Negative Time Preference. American Economic Review. 81(2). 347–352. 230 indexed citations

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