Rui Mata

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Rui Mata is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui Mata has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in General Decision Sciences, 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rui Mata's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (42 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Rui Mata is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (42 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Rui Mata collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Rui Mata's co-authors include Ralph Hertwig, Jörg Rieskamp, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, Anika K. Josef, Renato Frey, Lael J. Schooler, Bettina von Helversen, David Richter, Dirk U. Wulff and Andreas Pedroni and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rui Mata

82 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Risk preference shares the psychometric structure of major psychological traits

2017 325 citations Renato Frey, Rui Mata et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui Mata Switzerland	32	1.2k	1.1k	599	584	519	88	3.4k
Jörg Rieskamp Switzerland	40	2.5k 2.0×	1.9k 1.7×	667 1.1×	614 1.1×	521 1.0×	127	5.2k
Ming Hsu United States	26	611 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	808 1.3×	228 0.4×	523 1.0×	67	2.9k
Michael Lamport Commons United States	21	942 0.8×	900 0.8×	688 1.1×	559 1.0×	415 0.8×	140	3.5k
Astrid F. Fry United States	11	726 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	854 1.4×	423 0.7×	292 0.6×	12	2.8k
Joshua A. Weller United States	26	637 0.5×	639 0.6×	431 0.7×	449 0.8×	444 0.9×	48	2.3k
Hal E. Hershfield United States	25	341 0.3×	385 0.3×	757 1.3×	661 1.1×	916 1.8×	62	2.6k
Eldad Yechiam Israel	32	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	474 0.8×	553 0.9×	282 0.5×	93	3.4k
Bernd Figner Netherlands	20	726 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	875 1.5×	752 1.3×	492 0.9×	58	3.1k
Thomas M. Hess United States	37	406 0.3×	1.6k 1.5×	850 1.4×	481 0.8×	1.3k 2.4×	146	4.6k
Tali Sharot United Kingdom	41	931 0.7×	2.9k 2.6×	1.6k 2.7×	1.2k 2.1×	1.1k 2.1×	86	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rui Mata

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wulff, Dirk U. & Rui Mata. (2025). Escaping the Jingle-Jangle Jungle: Increasing Conceptual Clarity in Psychology Using Large Language Models. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Mata, Rui, et al.. (2025). Mapping Mental Representations With Free Associations: A Tutorial Using the R Package associatoR. Journal of Cognition. 8(1). 3–3.

Tisdall, Loreen, Renato Frey, Dirk U. Wulff, David Kellen, & Rui Mata. (2024). Convergence of Age Differences in Risk Preference, Impulsivity, and Self-Control: A Multiverse Analysis. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 79(8).

Wulff, Dirk U., et al.. (2024). Using novel data and ensemble models to improve automated labeling of Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability Science. 19(5). 1773–1787. 8 indexed citations

Tisdall, Loreen, et al.. (2023). Aging and Economic Preferences: Cumulative Meta-Analyses of Age Differences in Risk, Time, Social, and Effort Preferences. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 78(7). 1122–1135. 6 indexed citations

Tisdall, Loreen, et al.. (2023). Lifespan trajectories of risk preference, impulsivity, and self-control: A dataset containing self-report, informant-report, behavioral, hormone and functional neuroimaging measures from a cross-sectional human sample. Data in Brief. 52. 109968–109968. 1 indexed citations

Seaman, Kendra Leigh, et al.. (2022). Temporal discounting across adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.. Psychology and Aging. 37(1). 111–124. 28 indexed citations

Wulff, Dirk U., Thomas T. Hills, & Rui Mata. (2022). Structural differences in the semantic networks of younger and older adults. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 21459–21459. 25 indexed citations

Mata, Rui, et al.. (2022). Life-Course Trajectories of Risk-Taking Propensity: A Coordinated Analysis of Longitudinal Studies. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 78(3). 445–455. 5 indexed citations

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Wulff, Dirk U. & Rui Mata. (2022). On the semantic representation of risk. Science Advances. 8(27). eabm1883–eabm1883. 10 indexed citations

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Seaman, Kendra Leigh, et al.. (2020). Temporal Discounting Across Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 6 indexed citations

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Wulff, Dirk U., Simon De Deyne, Michael N. Jones, & Rui Mata. (2019). New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(8). 686–698. 97 indexed citations

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Helversen, Bettina von, Rui Mata, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, & Andreas Wilke. (2018). Foraging, exploration, or search? On the (lack of) convergent validity between three behavioral paradigms.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 12(3). 152–162. 24 indexed citations

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Hertwig, Ralph, Dirk U. Wulff, & Rui Mata. (2018). Three gaps and what they may mean for risk preference. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1766). 20180140–20180140. 70 indexed citations

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Mamerow, Loreen, Renato Frey, & Rui Mata. (2016). Risk taking across the life span: A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of risk taking.. Psychology and Aging. 31(7). 711–723. 59 indexed citations

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Josef, Anika K., David Richter, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, et al.. (2016). Stability and change in risk-taking propensity across the adult life span.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111(3). 430–450. 179 indexed citations

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Hills, Thomas T., Rui Mata, Andreas Wilke, & Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin. (2013). Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life span.. Developmental Psychology. 49(12). 2396–2404. 46 indexed citations

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Helversen, Bettina von & Rui Mata. (2012). Losing a dime with a satisfied mind: Positive affect predicts less search in sequential decision making.. Psychology and Aging. 27(4). 825–839. 23 indexed citations

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Hills, Thomas T., Rui Mata, Andreas Wilke, & Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin. (2011). Exploration and Exploitation in Memory Search Across the Lifespan. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 2 indexed citations

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Reimer, Torsten, et al.. (2004). The use of heuristics in persuasion : deriving cues on source expertise from argument quality. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 10(6). 17 indexed citations

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