Shigehiro Oishi

47.5k total citations · 14 hit papers
221 papers, 27.7k citations indexed

About

Shigehiro Oishi is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigehiro Oishi has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 27.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Social Psychology, 91 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 51 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Shigehiro Oishi's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (120 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (84 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (62 papers). Shigehiro Oishi is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (120 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (84 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (62 papers). Shigehiro Oishi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Shigehiro Oishi's co-authors include Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas, Ed Diener, Michael F. Steger, Eunkook M. Suh, Ulrich Schimmack, Matthew E. Kaler, Patricia Frazier, Derrick Wirtz and Louis Tay and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Shigehiro Oishi

216 papers receiving 25.9k citations

Hit Papers

New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flou... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2009 2006 2002 2018 1998 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings
    2009 3.2k citations Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz et al. Social Indicators Research profile →
  2. The meaning in life questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life.
    2006 3.2k citations Shigehiro Oishi et al. profile →
  3. Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life
    2002 2.3k citations Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi et al. profile →
  4. Advances in subjective well-being research
    2018 996 citations Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
  5. The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms.
    1998 888 citations Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  6. Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture
    2014 805 citations Thomas Talhelm, Xianfei Zhang et al. Science profile →
  7. Meaning in life across the life span: Levels and correlates of meaning in life from emerging adulthood to older adulthood
    2009 620 citations Shigehiro Oishi et al. The Journal of Positive Psychology profile →
  8. Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being
    2018 601 citations Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas et al. profile →
  9. Similarity of the Relations between Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being Across Cultures
    2000 507 citations Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi et al. profile →
  10. Income Inequality and Happiness
    2011 500 citations Shigehiro Oishi, Ed Diener et al. profile →
  11. The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Across Age
    2013 497 citations Shigehiro Oishi et al. Social Indicators Research profile →
  12. Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being.
    2016 411 citations Ed Diener, Samantha J. Heintzelman et al. profile →
  13. National accounts of subjective well-being.
    2015 310 citations Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi et al. American Psychologist profile →
  14. Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world
    2018 234 citations Andrew T. Jebb, Louis Tay et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shigehiro Oishi United States 70 17.8k 7.5k 6.6k 5.1k 4.9k 221 27.7k
Richard E. Lucas United States 67 20.4k 1.1× 7.5k 1.0× 8.4k 1.3× 6.0k 1.2× 7.1k 1.4× 165 33.0k
Eunkook M. Suh United States 35 13.7k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 4.3k 0.6× 3.6k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 70 20.2k
Corey L. M. Keyes United States 44 16.5k 0.9× 4.7k 0.6× 10.7k 1.6× 5.0k 1.0× 4.5k 0.9× 86 29.0k
Robert A. Emmons United States 64 15.8k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 11.1k 1.7× 5.3k 1.0× 4.5k 0.9× 116 26.4k
Niall Bolger United States 57 14.0k 0.8× 7.9k 1.1× 10.0k 1.5× 4.1k 0.8× 7.1k 1.5× 113 32.6k
Ed Diener United States 84 25.8k 1.4× 9.2k 1.2× 9.8k 1.5× 7.6k 1.5× 8.0k 1.6× 186 41.0k
Jean M. Twenge United States 89 13.0k 0.7× 11.3k 1.5× 11.6k 1.7× 3.6k 0.7× 4.8k 1.0× 177 32.2k
Sonja Lyubomirsky United States 72 17.6k 1.0× 4.5k 0.6× 12.9k 2.0× 7.7k 1.5× 10.0k 2.0× 162 32.9k
Daniel W. Russell United States 74 10.6k 0.6× 7.4k 1.0× 9.5k 1.4× 2.7k 0.5× 3.0k 0.6× 207 30.9k
Shinobu Kitayama United States 70 24.6k 1.4× 15.1k 2.0× 6.2k 0.9× 3.3k 0.6× 6.0k 1.2× 208 37.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigehiro Oishi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oishi, Shigehiro, et al.. (2025). Psychological richness offers a third path to a good life. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29(11). 1023–1033. 1 indexed citations
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Choi, Hyewon, Michele J. Gelfand, Ying‐yi Hong, et al.. (2025). Culture & personality: Five expert visions. Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 6. 1 indexed citations
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Caluori, Nava, et al.. (2024). Investigating How High Perceived Economic Inequality Exacerbates Intergroup Competition, Zero-Sum Beliefs, and Perceived Intergroup Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(10). 1942–1961. 2 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, et al.. (2024). Differing worldviews: The politics of happiness, meaning, and psychological richness. Journal of Personality. 93(3). 653–669. 5 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, et al.. (2022). The socio‐ecological psychology of residential mobility. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 32(3). 519–536. 30 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, et al.. (2022). Money and happiness: the income–happiness correlation is higher when income inequality is higher. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac224–pgac224. 13 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, Minkyung Koo, & Nicholas R. Buttrick. (2018). The socioecological psychology of upward social mobility.. American Psychologist. 74(7). 751–763. 16 indexed citations
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Jebb, Andrew T., Louis Tay, Ed Diener, & Shigehiro Oishi. (2018). Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(1). 33–38. 234 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kushlev, Kostadin, Samantha J. Heintzelman, Lesley D. Lutes, et al.. (2016). ENHANCE: Design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial for promoting enduring happiness & well-being. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 52. 62–74. 22 indexed citations
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Talhelm, Thomas, Xianfei Zhang, Shigehiro Oishi, et al.. (2014). Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture. Science. 344(6184). 603–608. 805 indexed citations breakdown →
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Diener, Ed, Louis Tay, & Shigehiro Oishi. (2012). Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104(2). 267–276. 285 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, et al.. (2011). The role of familiarity in daily well-being: Developmental and cultural variation.. Developmental Psychology. 47(6). 1750–1756. 11 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro & Ulrich Schimmack. (2010). Residential mobility, well-being, and mortality.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98(6). 980–994. 143 indexed citations
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Diener, Ed, Derrick Wirtz, William Tov, et al.. (2009). New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings. Social Indicators Research. 97(2). 143–156. 3163 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oishi, Shigehiro, Ed Diener, Dongwon Choi, Chu Kim‐Prieto, & Incheol Choi. (2007). The dynamics of daily events and well-being across cultures: When less is more.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 93(4). 685–698. 85 indexed citations
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Schimmack, Ulrich & Shigehiro Oishi. (2005). The influence of chronically and temporarily accessible information on life satisfaction judgments.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 89(3). 395–406. 271 indexed citations
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Oishi, Shigehiro, Ed Diener, Christie Napa Scollon, & Robert Biswas‐Diener. (2004). Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective Experiences Across Cultures.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 86(3). 460–472. 97 indexed citations
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Schimmack, Ulrich, Phanikiran Radhakrishnan, Shigehiro Oishi, Vivian Dzokoto, & Stephan A. Ahadi. (2002). Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: Integrating process models of life satisfaction.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82(4). 582–593. 468 indexed citations
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Diener, Ed, et al.. (2002). Wanting, having, and satisfaction: Examining the role of desire discrepancies in satisfaction with income.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 83(3). 725–734. 95 indexed citations

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