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27th International Meeting of the Brunswik Society (9th December, 18.00-20.00 CET) via Zoom

iScience member Dr. Esther Kaufmann, organizes the 27th International (Online) Meeting of the Brunswik Society as a Main Organizer jointly with Mandeep Dhami.

The Brunswik Society is an association of international researchers interested in human judgment and decision-making. The members of the association share the appreciation for psychologist Egon Brunswik (1903-1955).

The two-day meeting event will start on 9th December, 18.00-20.00 CET and will be held online via Zoom.

This is a free event. If you’d like to attend, then please email Esther (esther.kaufmann@gmx.ch) so you can receive the zoom link.

For further information, also check out http://www.brunswik.org.


Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Recognized as Top-Cited Scientist

Along with one other current and three 
former psychology faculty members the chair of 
iScience group tops the Stanford study list of 
100’000 cited researchers worldwide.

Researchers around John P.A. Ioannidis at 
Stanford analyzed scientific impact worldwide on 
the basis of data from Scopus. Using multiple 
indicators, their study analyzed data from 1996 
through 2019, covering 7 million scientists in 22 
major fields ranging from chemistry to 
engineering to economics and psychology.
Check out this study

Among the top 100,000 (by c-score) or a 
percentile rank of 2% or above for career-long 
impact, the study lists two current (Jens 
Pruessner and Ulf-Dietrich Reips) and three 
former scientists (Peter Gollwitzer, Thomas 
Elbert, Brigitte Rockstroh) among faculty members 
at the Department of Psychology at the University 
of Konstanz.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips has previously been recognized 
as 7th ranked in list of “Top Scientists working 
at Spanish Private Universities”
(2014) and as 
co-author of a highly cited paper by ISI Web of 
Science (2017). ResearchGate constantly lists his 
publications’ impact among the top five at his 
institution
.



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