Helen Fischer

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 799 citations indexed

About

Helen Fischer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Fischer has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 799 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Helen Fischer's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 papers). Helen Fischer is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 papers). Helen Fischer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Helen Fischer's co-authors include Dorothee Amelung, Rainer Sauerborn, Nadia Said, Alina Herrmann, Carlo Aall, Valérie R. Louis, Marta Baltruszewicz, Maria Nilsson, Bore Sköld and Ghislain Dubois and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Helen Fischer

32 papers receiving 778 citations

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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.

It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures

2019 379 citations Ghislain Dubois, Benjamin K. Sovacool et al. Energy Research & Social Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helen Fischer Germany	13	285	242	119	95	79	34	799
Dorothee Amelung Germany	12	246 0.9×	222 0.9×	128 1.1×	106 1.1×	84 1.1×	23	781
Peng Cheng China	19	224 0.8×	117 0.5×	99 0.8×	140 1.5×	53 0.7×	52	965
Karen Richardsen Moberg Norway	5	160 0.6×	190 0.8×	132 1.1×	96 1.0×	85 1.1×	7	530
Bore Sköld Sweden	4	157 0.6×	192 0.8×	135 1.1×	92 1.0×	83 1.1×	4	522
Marta Baltruszewicz United Kingdom	6	154 0.5×	195 0.8×	186 1.6×	116 1.2×	137 1.7×	7	602
Sébastien Bruyère Sweden	3	142 0.5×	178 0.7×	123 1.0×	83 0.9×	82 1.0×	3	481
Michael Wicki Switzerland	15	215 0.8×	165 0.7×	124 1.0×	188 2.0×	30 0.4×	38	868
Anna‐Lisa Lindén Sweden	11	160 0.6×	292 1.2×	209 1.8×	110 1.2×	107 1.4×	48	848
Robert Gennaro Sposato Austria	9	407 1.4×	220 0.9×	83 0.7×	36 0.4×	63 0.8×	13	760

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Fischer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fischer, Helen, et al.. (2025). Intellectual humility links to metacognitive ability. Personality and Individual Differences. 238. 113028–113028. 1 indexed citations

Herrmann, Alina, Helen Fischer, Till Bärnighausen, et al.. (2025). Acceptability of health-only versus climate-and-health framings in lifestyle-related climate-sensitive health counselling: results of a randomised survey experiment in Germany. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(6). e456–e466. 4 indexed citations

Fischer, Helen & Stephen M. Fleming. (2024). Why metacognition matters in politically contested domains. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(9). 783–785. 9 indexed citations

Geers, Michael, Helen Fischer, Stephan Lewandowsky, & Stefan M. Herzog. (2024). The political (a)symmetry of metacognitive insight into detecting misinformation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 153(8). 1961–1972. 4 indexed citations

Fischer, Helen, et al.. (2023). Metacognition, public health compliance, and vaccination willingness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(43). e2105425120–e2105425120. 7 indexed citations

Fischer, Helen, Nanda Wijermans, & Maja Schlüter‬. (2023). Testing the Social Function of Metacognition for Common‐Pool Resource Use. Cognitive Science. 47(3). e13212–e13212. 2 indexed citations

Fischer, Helen, Markus Huff, & Nadia Said. (2022). Polarized climate change beliefs: No evidence for science literacy driving motivated reasoning in a U.S. national study.. American Psychologist. 77(7). 822–835. 14 indexed citations

Broek, Karlijn L. van den, Joseph Luomba, J. van den Broek, & Helen Fischer. (2021). Evaluating the Application of the Mental Model Mapping Tool (M-Tool). Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 761882–761882. 19 indexed citations

Said, Nadia, et al.. (2021). Contested science: Individuals with higher metacognitive insight into interpretation of evidence are less likely to polarize. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 29(2). 668–680. 13 indexed citations

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Said, Nadia & Helen Fischer. (2021). Extrapolation accuracy underestimates rule learning: Evidence from the function-learning paradigm. Acta Psychologica. 218. 103356–103356. 1 indexed citations

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Fischer, Helen & Nadia Said. (2020). Importance of domain-specific metacognition for explaining beliefs about politicized science: The case of climate change. Cognition. 208. 104545–104545. 19 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qunshan, Helen Fischer, Wei Luo, & Elizabeth A. Wentz. (2019). Community Resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: The Analysis of Indoor Heat-Related Death and Urban Thermal Environment. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations

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Dubois, Ghislain, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Carlo Aall, et al.. (2019). It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures. Energy Research & Social Science. 52. 144–158. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herrmann, Alina, Helen Fischer, Dorothee Amelung, et al.. (2017). Household preferences for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in four European high-income countries: Does health information matter? A mixed-methods study protocol. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 71–71. 76 indexed citations

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Bar‐Hen, Avner, Helen Fischer, Rainer Sauerborn, et al.. (2016). Climate change and human health: what are the research trends? A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 6(12). e012022–e012022. 16 indexed citations

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Amelung, Dorothee, Helen Fischer, Lenelis Kruse, & Rainer Sauerborn. (2016). Defogging Climate Change Communication: How Cognitive Research Can Promote Effective Climate Communication. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1340–1340. 11 indexed citations

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Fischer, Helen & Daniel V. Holt. (2016). When high working memory capacity is and is not beneficial for predicting nonlinear processes. Memory & Cognition. 45(3). 404–412. 6 indexed citations

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Degen, Christina, Helen Fischer, Johannes Lohse, et al.. (2014). Comprehension of climate change and environmental attitudes across the lifespan. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. 47(6). 490–494. 3 indexed citations

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Fischer, Helen & Cleotilde González. (2013). Seeing the forest for the trees predicts accumulation decisions. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1 indexed citations

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Wentink, M., Helen Fischer, Jenny Dankelman, Laurents P. S. Stassen, & P.A. Wieringa. (2002). The Perspective Effect of Wide-Angle Lenses in Laparoscopes. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. 12(6). 461–465. 2 indexed citations

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