Jonathan Schulz

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Schulz is a scholar working on Safety Research, Demography and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Schulz has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Safety Research, 11 papers in Demography and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Schulz's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (12 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (10 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 papers). Jonathan Schulz is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (12 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (10 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 papers). Jonathan Schulz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Jonathan Schulz's co-authors include Joseph Henrich, Simon Gächter, Edmond Awad, Azim Shariff, Iyad Rahwan, Richard Kim, Sohan Dsouza, Jean‐François Bonnefon, Duman Bahrami‐Rad and Jonathan Beauchamp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Schulz

20 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Moral Machine experiment 2016 2026 2019 2022 2018 2016 2019 250 500 750
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. The Moral Machine experiment
    2018 913 citations Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza et al. Nature profile →
  2. Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies
    2016 339 citations Simon Gächter, Jonathan Schulz Nature profile →
  3. The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
    2019 249 citations Jonathan Schulz, Duman Bahrami‐Rad et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Schulz United States 11 900 644 643 376 280 25 1.9k
Eric van Dijk Netherlands 31 1.1k 1.3× 658 1.0× 1.3k 2.1× 754 2.0× 180 0.6× 84 3.1k
Christian Schitter Austria 3 205 0.2× 383 0.6× 715 1.1× 439 1.2× 53 0.2× 4 2.2k
Andrea Bonezzi United States 13 374 0.4× 293 0.5× 922 1.4× 406 1.1× 26 0.1× 25 2.1k
Chiara Longoni United States 10 507 0.6× 356 0.6× 662 1.0× 294 0.8× 21 0.1× 19 1.9k
Kin Fai Ellick Wong Hong Kong 25 151 0.2× 292 0.5× 363 0.6× 335 0.9× 44 0.2× 74 1.5k
John Danaher Ireland 25 870 1.0× 656 1.0× 423 0.7× 239 0.6× 46 0.2× 71 1.8k
Ella Glikson Israel 12 424 0.5× 110 0.2× 374 0.6× 501 1.3× 51 0.2× 21 1.7k
Daniel B. Shank United States 18 301 0.3× 248 0.4× 394 0.6× 212 0.6× 37 0.1× 51 1.1k
Ofer H. Azar Israel 23 338 0.4× 102 0.2× 681 1.1× 242 0.6× 39 0.1× 95 1.6k
Daniel Mochon United States 15 114 0.1× 164 0.3× 491 0.8× 304 0.8× 32 0.1× 23 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Schulz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan Schulz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Schulz

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonathan Schulz. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonathan Schulz based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jonathan Schulz. Jonathan Schulz is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fabbri, Marco, Daniele Nosenzo, & Jonathan Schulz. (2025). Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1940).
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Schulz, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in US History. Journal of Political Economy. 0–0.
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Molho, Catherine, Ivan Soraperra, Jonathan Schulz, & Shaul Shalvi. (2025). Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(10). 2199–2211.
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Schulz, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 215. 134–152. 4 indexed citations
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Thiemann, Petra, Jonathan Schulz, Uwe Sunde, & Christian Thöni. (2022). Selection into experiments: New evidence on the role of preferences, cognition, and recruitment protocols. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 98. 101871–101871.
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Schulz, Jonathan. (2022). Kin Networks and Institutional Development. The Economic Journal. 132(647). 2578–2613. 43 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan. (2022). Kin-networks and Institutional Development. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Aycinena, Diego, et al.. (2022). Social norms and dishonesty across societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(31). e2120138119–e2120138119. 21 indexed citations
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Bahrami‐Rad, Duman, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, & Jonathan Schulz. (2022). Kin-based institutions and economic development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann, & Christian Thöni. (2019). Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann, & Christian Thöni. (2019). Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan, Duman Bahrami‐Rad, Jonathan Beauchamp, & Joseph Henrich. (2019). The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation. Science. 366(6466). 249 indexed citations breakdown →
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Capraro, Valerio, Jonathan Schulz, & David G. Rand. (2019). Time pressure and honesty in a deception game. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 79. 93–99. 49 indexed citations
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Awad, Edmond, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim, et al.. (2018). The Moral Machine experiment. Nature. 563(7729). 59–64. 913 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schulz, Jonathan, Petra Thiemann, & Christian Thöni. (2018). Nudging generosity: Choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 74. 139–145. 16 indexed citations
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Schulz, Jonathan & Christian Thöni. (2016). Overconfidence and Career Choice. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0145126–e0145126. 20 indexed citations
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Gächter, Simon & Jonathan Schulz. (2016). Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies. Nature. 531(7595). 496–499. 339 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schulz, Jonathan, Petra Thiemann, & Christian Thöni. (2016). Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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