James Matheson

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

James Matheson is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Matheson has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in James Matheson's work include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (7 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (3 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 papers). James Matheson is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (7 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (3 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 papers). James Matheson collaborates with scholars based in United States. James Matheson's co-authors include Ronald A. Howard, Robert L. Winkler, Ali E. Abbas, David Matheson, Lee Spector, Thomas Helmuth, Dakota North, Samuel Holtzman, James E. Smith and David Havas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Management Science and Operations Research.

In The Last Decade

James Matheson

26 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Scoring Rules for Continuous Probability Distributions 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 2005 1989 200 400 600
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. Scoring Rules for Continuous Probability Distributions
    1976 609 citations James Matheson, Robert L. Winkler Management Science profile →
  2. Influence Diagrams
    2005 501 citations Ronald A. Howard, James Matheson Decision Analysis profile →
  3. Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis
    1989 451 citations Ronald A. Howard, James Matheson profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Matheson United States 19 971 777 320 293 244 28 2.6k
James V. Zidek Canada 30 846 0.9× 493 0.6× 300 0.9× 815 2.8× 164 0.7× 120 3.7k
Matthew J. Sobel United States 31 363 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 189 0.6× 611 2.1× 73 0.3× 96 4.2k
Ferenc Szidarovszky United States 37 300 0.3× 1.0k 1.3× 334 1.0× 1.5k 5.0× 100 0.4× 291 4.8k
Robert F. Carbone United States 15 181 0.2× 1.2k 1.6× 116 0.4× 352 1.2× 99 0.4× 33 1.9k
Michèle Hibon France 14 528 0.5× 2.8k 3.6× 115 0.4× 839 2.9× 52 0.2× 18 4.0k
Vassilios Assimakopoulos Greece 25 540 0.6× 2.2k 2.9× 154 0.5× 545 1.9× 58 0.2× 74 3.8k
Fotios Petropoulos United Kingdom 27 356 0.4× 1.8k 2.3× 176 0.6× 599 2.0× 64 0.3× 75 3.0k
Hrishikesh D. Vinod United States 27 352 0.4× 346 0.4× 139 0.4× 905 3.1× 67 0.3× 144 3.1k
Nikolaos Kourentzes United Kingdom 29 385 0.4× 1.6k 2.1× 141 0.4× 370 1.3× 53 0.2× 78 2.5k
Paul H. Randolph United States 12 281 0.3× 359 0.5× 68 0.2× 229 0.8× 56 0.2× 31 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Matheson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Matheson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Helmuth, Thomas, Lee Spector, & James Matheson. (2015). Solving Uncompromising Problems With Lexicase Selection. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 19(5). 630–643. 99 indexed citations
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Havas, David & James Matheson. (2013). The Functional Role of the Periphery in Emotional Language Comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 294–294. 18 indexed citations
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Reed, Andrew & James Matheson. (2012). A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches: By the Deputation from the Congregation Union of England and Wales.
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Abbas, Ali E. & James Matheson. (2009). Normative decision making with multiattribute performance targets. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. 16(3-4). 67–78. 22 indexed citations
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Abbas, Ali E., James Matheson, & Robert F. Bordley. (2008). Effective utility functions induced by organizational target‐based incentives. Managerial and Decision Economics. 30(4). 235–251. 23 indexed citations
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Howard, Ronald A., James Matheson, Miley W. Merkhofer, Allen C. Miller, & Dakota North. (2006). Comment on Influence Diagram Retrospective. Decision Analysis. 3(2). 117–119. 11 indexed citations
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Howard, Ronald A. & James Matheson. (2005). Influence Diagrams. Decision Analysis. 2(3). 127–143. 501 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matheson, David & James Matheson. (2005). Describing and Valuing Interventions That Observe or Control Decision Situations. Decision Analysis. 2(3). 165–181. 16 indexed citations
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Matheson, James & Ali E. Abbas. (2005). Utility transversality: a value‐based approach. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. 13(5-6). 229–238. 35 indexed citations
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Matheson, James, et al.. (2001). Smart Organizations Perform Better. Research-Technology Management. 44(4). 49–54. 18 indexed citations
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Matheson, David & James Matheson. (1999). Outside-In Strategic Modeling. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. 29(6). 29–41. 3 indexed citations
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Matheson, David & James Matheson. (1997). The Smart Organization: Creating Value Through Strategic R&D. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 83 indexed citations
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Smith, James E., Samuel Holtzman, & James Matheson. (1993). Structuring Conditional Relationships in Influence Diagrams. Operations Research. 41(2). 280–297. 68 indexed citations
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Kornman, Kenneth S., Michael Newman, Samuel Holtzman, & James Matheson. (1992). Field Testing As Clinical Trial Methodology in Periodontics. Journal of Periodontology. 63(12S). 1064–1071. 5 indexed citations
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Howard, Ronald A. & James Matheson. (1989). Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis. 451 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matheson, James, et al.. (1978). A Manual for Encoding Probability Distributions.. 26(6). 1949–1955. 20 indexed citations
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Matheson, James & Robert L. Winkler. (1973). The Elicitation of Continuous Probability Distributions. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 3 indexed citations
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Howard, Ronald A. & James Matheson. (1972). Risk-Sensitive Markov Decision Processes. Management Science. 18(7). 356–369. 301 indexed citations
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Howard, Ronald A., James Matheson, & Dakota North. (1972). The Decision to Seed Hurricanes. Science. 176(4040). 1191–1202. 89 indexed citations
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Matheson, James. (1968). The Economic Value of Analysis and Computation. 4(3). 325–332. 42 indexed citations

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