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Interdisciplinary Influences in Behavioral Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Cross-Disciplinary Citations

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  • Alexandre Truc

    (UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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Interdisciplinarity in behavioral economics (BE) has often been described as limited or decreasing since the 1980s. In this article, we investigate the interdisciplinary influences of behavioral economists using quantitative techniques. We find that following an intense period of interdisciplinary exchange among a handful of individuals, interdisciplinarity between economics and psychology has decreased in BE since the 1980s. However, this decreasing interdisciplinarity in BE has been compensated for by the rise of BE in the wider field of economics. While individual BE articles have become less intensely related to psychology, the growing number of BE articles in economics as a whole has intensified the overall interdisciplinarity between economics and psychology. Moreover, the decreasing interdisciplinarity between economics and psychology in BE has not resulted in a return to a self-sufficient economic approach. Instead, we observe a rise in the importance of management studies, as well as a variety of other disciplines in the social and natural sciences, as behavioral economists have diversified their interdisciplinary relationships since the 2000s. Finally, the level of interdisciplinarity between economics and psychology in behavioral economics remains higher than the average economics' article, making the specialty distinctively interdisciplinary.
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  • Alexandre Truc, 2021. "Interdisciplinary Influences in Behavioral Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Cross-Disciplinary Citations," Post-Print halshs-03455796, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03455796
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    1. Dorian Jullien & Alexandre Truc, 2024. "Towards a history of behavioural and experimental economics in France," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 998-1033, November.
    2. Jingjing Ren & Fang Wang & Minglu Li, 2023. "Dynamics and characteristics of interdisciplinary research in scientific breakthroughs: case studies of Nobel-winning research in the past 120 years," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(8), pages 4383-4419, August.
    3. Alexandre Truc & Dorian Jullien, 2023. "A controversy about modeling practices: the case of inequity aversion," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 203-227, July.
    4. Alexandre Truc, 2022. "Neuroeconomics Hype or Hope? An Answer," GREDEG Working Papers 2022-26, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    5. Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, 2024. "The Lichtenstein-Slovic-Tversky-Kahneman Nexus. A Prehistory of Behavioral Economics (1969-1974)," GREDEG Working Papers 2024-31, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    6. Daniel F. Zarama Rojas, 2025. "Of the Vices Behind Biases – A Virtue Epistemology Perspective on the Contribution of Nudges as Policy Tools," Working Papers of BETA 2025-06, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
    7. Alexandre Truc, 2022. "The Disciplinary Mobility of Core Behavioral Economists," GREDEG Working Papers 2022-27, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    8. Fan Pan & Yiying Yang, 2025. "Diachronic change in lexical complexity of research articles (1970–2020): economics vs. medicine," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 130(3), pages 1789-1812, March.
    9. Gunessee, Saileshsingh & Lane, Tom, 2023. "Changing perceptions about experimentation in economics: 50 years of evidence from principles textbooks," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    10. Muriel Dal-Pont Legrand & Alexandre Truc, 2022. "Agent-Based Models: impact and interdisciplinary influences in economics," Working Papers halshs-04832295, HAL.

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