Peter C. Fishburn

29.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
411 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Peter C. Fishburn is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter C. Fishburn has authored 411 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 208 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 135 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 130 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Peter C. Fishburn's work include Game Theory and Voting Systems (131 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (130 papers) and Economic theories and models (58 papers). Peter C. Fishburn is often cited by papers focused on Game Theory and Voting Systems (131 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (130 papers) and Economic theories and models (58 papers). Peter C. Fishburn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Hungary. Peter C. Fishburn's co-authors include Roger Adelson, Steven J. Brams, William V. Gehrlein, R. Duncan Luce, Stanley Zionts, Ralph E. Steuer, James S. Dyer, Jyrki Wallenius, Ariel Rubinstein and Robert Sugden and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Peter C. Fishburn

404 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

Utility Theory for Decision Making 1971 2026 1989 2007 1971 1975 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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. Utility Theory for Decision Making
    1971 1.6k citations Peter C. Fishburn et al. profile →
  2. Mean-Risk Analysis with Risk Associated with Below-Target Returns
    1975 876 citations Peter C. Fishburn American Economic Review profile →
  3. Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Multiattribute Utility Theory: Recent Accomplishments and What Lies Ahead
    2008 607 citations Peter C. Fishburn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter C. Fishburn United States 58 7.6k 6.4k 4.8k 3.0k 1.9k 411 16.3k
Robert J. Aumann Israel 40 6.5k 0.8× 6.2k 1.0× 1.7k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 845 0.4× 101 11.4k
Howard Raiffa United States 34 3.1k 0.4× 4.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.3× 2.6k 0.9× 399 0.2× 70 13.9k
David Schmeidler Israel 40 6.4k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 3.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 385 0.2× 118 10.6k
Alvin E. Roth United States 71 11.7k 1.5× 10.3k 1.6× 2.0k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 239 20.9k
Ariel Rubinstein Israel 50 11.3k 1.5× 7.8k 1.2× 2.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.7× 524 0.3× 122 20.2k
Glenn Shafer United States 38 1.3k 0.2× 3.8k 0.6× 1.7k 0.4× 6.4k 2.1× 1.7k 0.9× 104 15.9k
Morris H. DeGroot United States 33 2.7k 0.3× 2.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 307 0.2× 91 10.9k
Leonard J. Savage United States 27 2.4k 0.3× 2.1k 0.3× 2.2k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 717 0.4× 56 10.4k
John C. Harsanyi United States 32 5.9k 0.8× 5.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.3× 1.0k 0.3× 316 0.2× 84 11.8k
Lloyd S. Shapley United States 37 7.3k 1.0× 6.6k 1.0× 363 0.1× 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 99 12.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brams, Steven J., William V. Gehrlein, Fred S. Roberts, & Peter C. Fishburn. (2009). The mathematics of preference, choice and order : essays in honor of Peter C. Fishburn. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 26 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C. & Bernard Monjardet. (2000). Concordance Graphs. European Journal of Combinatorics. 21(4). 461–471.
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Fishburn, Peter C., Prasad Tetali, & Peter Winkler. (2000). Optimal linear arrangement of a rectangular grid. Discrete Mathematics. 213(1-3). 123–139. 11 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C. & Andrew Odlyzko. (1999). Competitive pricing of information goods: Subscription pricing versus pay-per-use. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C., Peter Schwander, L. A. Shepp, & Robert J. Vanderbei. (1997). The discrete Radon transform and its approximate inversion via linear programming. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 75(1). 39–61. 47 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C. & Peter P. Wakker. (1995). The Invention of the Independence Condition for Preferences. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 9 indexed citations
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Erdös, P. & Peter C. Fishburn. (1995). Multiplicities of interpoint distances in finite planar sets. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 60(1-3). 141–147. 10 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1990). On a contribution of Freiman to additive number theory. Journal of Number Theory. 35(3). 325–334. 4 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1983). Interval lengths for interval orders: A minimization problem. Discrete Mathematics. 47. 63–82. 5 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1982). Aspects of semiorders within interval orders. Discrete Mathematics. 40(2-3). 181–191. 3 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1982). Monotonicity paradoxes in the theory of elections. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 4(2). 119–134. 60 indexed citations
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Gehrlein, William V. & Peter C. Fishburn. (1979). Proportions of profiles with a majority candidate. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 5(2). 117–124. 14 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1979). Approximations of multiattribute utility functions. Journal of Approximation Theory. 27(2). 179–196. 5 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1979). Heights of representative systems. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 1(3). 181–199. 2 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C., William V. Gehrlein, & Eric Maskin. (1979). Condorcet proportions and Kelly's conjectures. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 1(4). 229–252. 15 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1976). On linear extension majority graphs of partial orders. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 21(1). 65–70. 13 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1975). Mean-Risk Analysis with Risk Associated with Below-Target Returns. American Economic Review. 67(2). 116–126. 876 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1974). On the family of linear extensions of a partial order. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 17(3). 240–243. 20 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1971). Betweenness, orders and interval graphs. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 1(2). 159–178. 20 indexed citations
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Fishburn, Peter C.. (1970). An interval graph is not a comparability graph. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. 8(4). 442–443. 5 indexed citations

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