Karsten Olsen

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 939 citations indexed

About

Karsten Olsen is a scholar working on Social Psychology, General Decision Sciences and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Karsten Olsen has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 939 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Social Psychology, 3 papers in General Decision Sciences and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Karsten Olsen's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 papers), Language and cultural evolution (2 papers) and Cognitive Science and Mapping (2 papers). Karsten Olsen is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 papers), Language and cultural evolution (2 papers) and Cognitive Science and Mapping (2 papers). Karsten Olsen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. Karsten Olsen's co-authors include Andreas Roepstorff, Geraint Rees, Chris Frith, Bahador Bahrami, Peter E. Latham, Kristian Tylén, Bahador Bahrami, Riccardo Fusaroli, Dan Bang and Majid Nili Ahmadabadi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Karsten Olsen

7 papers receiving 885 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.

Optimally Interacting Minds

2010 440 citations Bahador Bahrami, Karsten Olsen et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karsten Olsen United Kingdom	7	379	323	213	190	143	7	939
Bahador Bahrami United Kingdom	15	610 1.6×	242 0.7×	250 1.2×	184 1.0×	161 1.1×	35	1.1k
Tomer Ullman United States	15	329 0.9×	256 0.8×	104 0.5×	151 0.8×	473 3.3×	59	1.0k
Julian Jara‐Ettinger United States	17	458 1.2×	427 1.3×	310 1.5×	293 1.5×	747 5.2×	84	1.5k
Marieke Schouwstra United Kingdom	8	249 0.7×	176 0.5×	340 1.6×	120 0.6×	379 2.7×	33	949
Geoff Hollis Canada	15	237 0.6×	141 0.4×	272 1.3×	44 0.2×	145 1.0×	23	705
Mónica Tamariz United Kingdom	14	255 0.7×	151 0.5×	380 1.8×	195 1.0×	338 2.4×	52	1.2k
Andrew Perfors Australia	14	169 0.4×	80 0.2×	93 0.4×	206 1.1×	307 2.1×	39	861
Nicholas D. Duran United States	20	314 0.8×	347 1.1×	256 1.2×	142 0.7×	389 2.7×	56	1.1k
Fenna H. Poletiek Netherlands	14	245 0.6×	100 0.3×	55 0.3×	103 0.5×	185 1.3×	31	698
Joseph L. Austerweil United States	17	250 0.7×	83 0.3×	153 0.7×	75 0.4×	159 1.1×	48	740

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karsten Olsen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karsten Olsen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karsten Olsen 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 Karsten Olsen. Karsten Olsen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Olsen, Karsten & Kristian Tylén. (2022). On the social nature of abstraction: cognitive implications of interaction and diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1870). 20210361–20210361. 9 indexed citations

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Mahmoodi, Ali, Dan Bang, Karsten Olsen, et al.. (2015). Equality bias impairs collective decision-making across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(12). 3835–3840. 77 indexed citations

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Bang, Dan, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén, et al.. (2014). Does interaction matter? Testing whether a confidence heuristic can replace interaction in collective decision-making. Consciousness and Cognition. 26. 13–23. 58 indexed citations

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Fusaroli, Riccardo, Bahador Bahrami, Karsten Olsen, et al.. (2012). Coming to Terms. Psychological Science. 23(8). 931–939. 232 indexed citations

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Bahrami, Bahador, Karsten Olsen, Dan Bang, et al.. (2012). What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1594). 1350–1365. 73 indexed citations

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Bahrami, Bahador, Karsten Olsen, Dan Bang, et al.. (2011). Together, slowly but surely: The role of social interaction and feedback on the build-up of benefit in collective decision-making.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 38(1). 3–8. 50 indexed citations

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Bahrami, Bahador, Karsten Olsen, Peter E. Latham, et al.. (2010). Optimally Interacting Minds. Science. 329(5995). 1081–1085. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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