Amazon Mechanical Turk

data category: Online experiment and survey panels · 1 paper in the last 7 days

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Names searched for: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Mechanical Turk, MTurk

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 481 archived papers mentioned Amazon Mechanical Turk in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (23).
Amazon Mechanical Turk was mentioned in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #13 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Economics (4), Management (3), Information Systems (3), Marketing (2) and Tourism and Hospitality (1).
Most of them appeared in Journal of Business and Psychology (2), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2) and Corporate Reputation Review (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Amazon Mechanical Turk was mentioned in 562 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (142), management (121) and economics (112).
160 of them were published in 2025, against 9 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (11), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9) and London School of Economics and Political Science (9).
The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Research (29), AI & Society (29) and Journal of Business Ethics (18).
The most-cited of them is “Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments” (Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2017), with 3,447 citations.
Papers use Amazon Mechanical Turk most often with Twitter / X (77), Facebook (72) and Prolific (53); it has 58 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	163	177	141	481

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	4	6	4	1	3	2	6	48	47	21
Management	1	0	0	1	1	3	11	43	34	27
Economics	2	1	1	4	3	2	12	33	31	23
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	2	1	7	15	14	18
Marketing	0	2	0	0	1	0	6	17	14	13
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	9	11
Operations Research	1	2	2	0	0	1	2	3	4	4
Finance	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	2	6
Accounting	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	2
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All categories	9	11	7	9	10	9	48	172	160	127

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Journal of Business Research	29
2	AI & Society	29
3	Journal of Business Ethics	18
4	Artificial Intelligence Review	17
5	Journal of Business and Psychology	14
6	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	13
7	Electronic Markets	13
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	12
9	Experimental Economics	12
10	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	11

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Erasmus University Rotterdam	11
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	9
3	London School of Economics and Political Science	9
4	University of Amsterdam	9
5	The University of Queensland	8
6	University of Zurich	8
7	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	7
8	Durham University	7
9	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	7
10	University of Edinburgh	7

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	145
2	United Kingdom	104
3	Germany	86
4	Australia	52
5	Netherlands	52
6	China	49
7	Italy	38
8	France	32
9	Switzerland	25
10	Finland	21

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	large language models	19
2	Amazon Mechanical Turk	18
3	consumer behavior	17
4	generative AI	16
5	crowdsourcing	12
6	digital labour markets	10
7	transparency	10
8	COVID-19 pandemic	9
9	ChatGPT	9
10	charitable giving	9

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	3,447	32.4	Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	2017-12-21	Stefan Palan, Christian Schitter
2	416	12.7	Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments	Journal of Business Research	2024-02-14	Marcello M. Mariani, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
3	362	3.2	Conducting interactive experiments online	Experimental Economics	2017-05-09	Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman
4	226	2.2	Gender differences in altruism on Mechanical Turk: Expectations and actual behaviour	Economics Letters	2018-05-30	Pablo Brañas‐Garza, Valerio Capraro, Ericka Gabriela Rascon Ramirez
5	210	9.8	What large language models know and what people think they know	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-01-21	Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda, Aakriti Kumar et al.

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Amazon Mechanical Turk most often with Twitter / X (77), Facebook (72) and Prolific (53); it has 58 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok. The whole network →

What papers use Amazon Mechanical Turk together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
Twitter / X	Dataset	77	1.5
Facebook	Dataset	72	2.1
Prolific	Dataset	53	15.6
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	53	2.4
CloudResearch	Dataset	52	55.8
ImageNet	Dataset	28	0.9
Reddit	Dataset	26	3.6
Wikipedia	Dataset	25	1.9
LinkedIn	Dataset	22	2.0
Airbnb	Dataset	19	1.8
Hugging Face Hub	Dataset	16	2.6
Yelp	Dataset	15	3.2

Papers mentioning Amazon Mechanical Turk in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-29	Masculinity contest cultures and job satisfaction: better to be competent or embedded?	Journal of Business and Psychology	Joseph Regina, Tammy D. Allen	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of South Florida
2026-10-28	Corporate Digital Responsibility Communication, Stakeholder Engagement, and Public Trust in AI: The Mediating Roles of Bias Remediation and Organizational Responsiveness	Corporate Reputation Review	Joon Soo Lim, Chunsik Lee, Junga Kim et al.	Syracuse University; University of North Florida; Texas Tech University
2026-10-27	Dirty by design? Gig work challenges, stigma, and identity threat in crowdwork	Journal of Business Research	Ward van Zoonen, Monika E. von Bonsdorff, Marjo Elisa Siltaoja	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Jyväskylä
2026-10-24	AI vs. AI: An AI-Enabled Conversational Intervention to Inoculate Against AI-Generated Fake News	Information Systems Frontiers	Mohammad S. Najjar, Murtaza Nasir	Wichita State University
2026-10-22	Asymmetric behavioural responses to updating caloric information	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	Jan Michael Bauer, Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, Giulia Priolo et al.	Copenhagen Business School; University of Bristol; University of Cambridge
2026-10-21	Testing capacity-constrained learning	Experimental Economics	Andrew Caplin, Daniel Martin, Philip Marx et al.	New York University; University of California, Santa Barbara; Louisiana State University
2026-10-15	Integrated cognitive processing model of phishing detection: Mood state as moderating factor in the mindful cognition mediated detection process	International Journal of Information Management	Debalina Bera, Arindam Majumder, Dan Jong Kim	University of North Carolina at Greensboro; University of North Texas
2026-10-15	Putting others first: testing a model of prosociality and performance	Journal of Business and Psychology	Anna Viragos, M. Davis, D. Leach	University of Leeds
2026-10-13	The paradox of withdrawal: How managerial turnover intention and attitudes shape performance appraisal quality in high-contact service	International Journal of Hospitality Management	Tong Yin	Auburn University
2026-10-10	Privacy concerns and choices under design friction: Evidence from cookie consent banners	Information Economics and Policy	Alexander Egberts, Julia Krämer	Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics; Erasmus University Rotterdam
2026-10-09	Not my party, still my public: Political organization–public relationships beyond the base	Public Relations Review	Kaye D. Sweetser, Kalyca Lynn Becktel	San Diego State University; North Carolina State University
2026-10-08	Moral obligation or personal benefit? Explaining consumers' regular use intentions for digital product passports	Electronic Markets	Oliver Behn, Johannes Wichmann, Michael Leyer	Philipps University of Marburg; University of Göttingen; Queensland University of Technology
2026-10-07	Aim high or play safe? Commitment, prosocial incentives, and goal setting	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	Yu Cao, C. Mónica Capra, Yuxin Su	World Bank; Claremont Graduate University; University of Arizona; …

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Amazon Mechanical Turk. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-mechanical-turk

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