Ian Belton

733 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 419 citations indexed

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Ian Belton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Belton has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 419 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 6 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ian Belton's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 papers), Delphi Technique in Research (5 papers) and Forecasting Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Ian Belton is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 papers), Delphi Technique in Research (5 papers) and Forecasting Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Ian Belton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Ian Belton's co-authors include George Wright, Iain Hamlin, Mandeep K. Dhami, David R. Mandel, Jane Goodman‐Delahunty, Fergus Bolger, Dilek Önkal, James Carroll, Kerstin Cuhls and David McMillan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and International Journal of Forecasting.

In The Last Decade

Ian Belton

20 papers receiving 399 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.

Improving the practical application of the Delphi method in group-based judgment: A six-step prescription for a well-founded and defensible process

2019 279 citations Ian Belton, George Wright et al. Technological Forecasting and Social Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Belton United Kingdom	8	195	54	47	39	38	23	419
Charles Lindsey United States	11	153 0.8×	34 0.6×	13 0.3×	22 0.6×	50 1.3×	23	496
Jon Barrutia Spain	8	131 0.7×	73 1.4×	26 0.6×	23 0.6×	37 1.0×	20	347
Tobias Gnatzy Germany	4	195 1.0×	88 1.6×	40 0.9×	12 0.3×	40 1.1×	5	418
Allison Stewart United Kingdom	8	92 0.5×	104 1.9×	169 3.6×	59 1.5×	41 1.1×	18	388
Tor‐Olav Nævestad Norway	19	153 0.8×	87 1.6×	31 0.7×	26 0.7×	27 0.7×	69	816
Ning Neil Yu China	12	105 0.5×	14 0.3×	35 0.7×	71 1.8×	193 5.1×	30	648
Penelope M. Mullen United Kingdom	8	206 1.1×	41 0.8×	91 1.9×	153 3.9×	143 3.8×	18	635
Fatih Demiroz United States	9	340 1.7×	53 1.0×	35 0.7×	46 1.2×	32 0.8×	15	534
Martin Read United Kingdom	11	53 0.3×	94 1.7×	98 2.1×	70 1.8×	22 0.6×	36	493
Sami A. Khan Saudi Arabia	12	228 1.2×	82 1.5×	22 0.5×	67 1.7×	74 1.9×	23	673

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Quigley, John, et al.. (2025). Designing a Bayesian Urgency Assessment Tool for Search and Rescue in the Canadian Arctic.

Dhami, Mandeep K., et al.. (2024). Effects of task structure and confirmation bias in alternative hypotheses evaluation. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 37–37. 1 indexed citations

Belton, Ian & Mandeep K. Dhami. (2024). The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 21(1). 208–239. 3 indexed citations

Derbyshire, James, Mandeep K. Dhami, Ian Belton, & Dilek Önkal. (2023). The value of experiments in futures and foresight science: A reply. Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London). 5(2).

Bolger, Fergus, et al.. (2023). Virtuous opinion change in structured groups. Judgment and Decision Making. 18. 2 indexed citations

Derbyshire, James, Mandeep K. Dhami, Ian Belton, & Dilek Önkal. (2022). The value of experiments in futures and foresight science as illustrated by the case of scenario planning. Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London). 5(2). 4 indexed citations

Belton, Ian, Kerstin Cuhls, & George Wright. (2022). A critical evaluation of 42, large‐scale, science and technology foresight Delphi surveys. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 4(2). 7 indexed citations

Belton, Ian, et al.. (2021). Delphi with feedback of rationales: How large can a Delphi group be such that participants are not overloaded, de-motivated, or disengaged?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 170. 120897–120897. 23 indexed citations

Dhami, Mandeep K., et al.. (2020). Disengaging and Rehabilitating High-Value Detainees: A Small-Scale Qualitative Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Bolger, Fergus, Ian Belton, Iain Hamlin, et al.. (2020). Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Bolger, Fergus, et al.. (2020). The Simulated Group Response Paradigm: A new approach to the study of opinion change in Delphi and other structured-group techniques. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K., Ian Belton, Elizabeth Merrall, Andrew McGrath, & Sheila M. Bird. (2020). Criminal Sentencing by Preferred Numbers. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 17(1). 139–163. 5 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K., et al.. (2019). Using scenarios to forecast outcomes of a refugee crisis. International Journal of Forecasting. 38(3). 1175–1184. 5 indexed citations

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Belton, Ian, et al.. (2019). Improving the practical application of the Delphi method in group-based judgment: A six-step prescription for a well-founded and defensible process. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 147. 72–82. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dhami, Mandeep K. & Ian Belton. (2017). On getting inside the judge’s mind.. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. 3(2). 214–226. 15 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K. & Ian Belton. (2016). Statistical Analyses of Court Decisions: An Example of Multilevel Models of Sentencing. Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London). 8 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K., et al.. (2016). Critical Review of Analytic Techniques. Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London). 152–155. 6 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K., et al.. (2016). Critical Review of Analytic Techniques. 152–155. 5 indexed citations

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Belton, Ian, et al.. (2014). Lawyer and Nonlawyer Susceptibility to Framing Effects in Out‐of‐Court Civil Litigation Settlement. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 11(3). 578–600. 5 indexed citations

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Dhami, Mandeep K., Ian Belton, & Jane Goodman‐Delahunty. (2014). Quasirational models of sentencing.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 4(3). 239–247. 14 indexed citations

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