Rumen Iliev

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Rumen Iliev is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rumen Iliev has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Social Psychology, 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Rumen Iliev's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (4 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 papers). Rumen Iliev is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (4 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 papers). Rumen Iliev collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Rumen Iliev's co-authors include Douglas L. Medin, Sonya Sachdeva, Morteza Dehghani, Carmen Tanner, Joe Hoover, Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges, Robert Axelrod, Eyal Sagi and Jesse Graham and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

In The Last Decade

Rumen Iliev

18 papers receiving 948 citations

Hit Papers

Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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. Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners
    2009 575 citations Sonya Sachdeva, Rumen Iliev et al. Psychological 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
Rumen Iliev United States 12 477 385 315 201 167 18 1.0k
Arvid Erlandsson Sweden 18 644 1.4× 348 0.9× 375 1.2× 71 0.4× 145 0.9× 39 1.1k
Jonathan Z. Berman United States 12 497 1.0× 288 0.7× 259 0.8× 140 0.7× 216 1.3× 24 941
Daniel M. Stancato United States 5 665 1.4× 236 0.6× 536 1.7× 88 0.4× 170 1.0× 8 1.4k
Laetitia B. Mulder Netherlands 16 666 1.4× 298 0.8× 204 0.6× 138 0.7× 546 3.3× 32 1.3k
Miranda Goode Canada 10 491 1.0× 238 0.6× 463 1.5× 119 0.6× 254 1.5× 20 1.4k
Orie V. Kristel United States 4 743 1.6× 559 1.5× 463 1.5× 200 1.0× 174 1.0× 5 1.3k
Johanna Peetz Canada 19 432 0.9× 220 0.6× 567 1.8× 76 0.4× 76 0.5× 69 1.3k
David Dubois United States 14 867 1.8× 224 0.6× 527 1.7× 111 0.6× 96 0.6× 24 1.5k
Gilad Feldman Hong Kong 16 422 0.9× 354 0.9× 409 1.3× 75 0.4× 73 0.4× 71 1.1k
Shirli Kopelman United States 14 755 1.6× 96 0.2× 432 1.4× 64 0.3× 310 1.9× 45 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rumen Iliev

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rumen Iliev

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rumen Iliev

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Filipowicz, Alexandre L. S., et al.. (2023). Promoting Sustainable Charging Through User Interface Interventions. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 267–279. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Matthew L., Rumen Iliev, Everlyne Kimani, et al.. (2023). Understanding People’s Perception and Usage of Plug-in Electric Hybrids. 1–21. 4 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, et al.. (2023). The Convergence of Positivity: Are Happy People All Alike?. Journal of Happiness Studies. 24(5). 1643–1662. 4 indexed citations
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Filipowicz, Alexandre L. S., et al.. (2022). Pick Your CARbon: User Perceptions of Equivalencies for Carbon Emissions when Selecting Rideshares. 48–52. 2 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, Joe Hoover, Morteza Dehghani, & Robert Axelrod. (2016). Linguistic positivity in historical texts reflects dynamic environmental and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(49). E7871–E7879. 43 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, KATE JOHNSON, Joe Hoover, et al.. (2016). Purity homophily in social networks.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 145(3). 366–375. 106 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen & Robert Axelrod. (2016). Does Causality Matter More Now? Increase in the Proportion of Causal Language in English Texts. Psychological Science. 27(5). 635–643. 9 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, et al.. (2016). Political and Linguistic Identities in an Ethnic Conflict. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 36(2). 211–225. 4 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen & bethany ojalehto. (2015). Bringing history back to culture: on the missing diachronic component in the research on culture and cognition. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 716–716. 11 indexed citations
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Guen, Olivier Le, et al.. (2013). A garden experiment revisited: inter‐generational change in environmental perception and management of the M aya L owlands, G uatemala. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19(4). 771–794. 15 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, Sonya Sachdeva, & Douglas L. Medin. (2012). Moral kinematics: The role of physical factors in moral judgments. Memory & Cognition. 40(8). 1387–1401. 15 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, et al.. (2011). Trolley problems in context. Judgment and Decision Making. 6(7). 593–601. 17 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, Scott Atran, Rumen Iliev, et al.. (2010). Sacred values and conflict over Iran’s nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 5(7). 540–546. 58 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, Rumen Iliev, Sonya Sachdeva, et al.. (2009). Emerging sacred values: Iran’s nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 4(7). 530–533. 26 indexed citations
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Iliev, Rumen, Sonya Sachdeva, Daniel M. Bartels, et al.. (2009). Attending to moral values. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, Rumen Iliev, Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges, & Douglas L. Medin. (2009). Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 4. 990–993. 17 indexed citations
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Sachdeva, Sonya, Rumen Iliev, & Douglas L. Medin. (2009). Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners. Psychological Science. 20(4). 523–528. 575 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tanner, Carmen, Douglas L. Medin, & Rumen Iliev. (2008). Influence of deontological versus consequentialist orientations on act choices and framing effects: when principles are more important than consequences. European Journal of Social Psychology. 38(5). 757–769. 88 indexed citations

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