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title: "Amazon Mechanical Turk: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 483 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)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 483 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). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# Amazon Mechanical Turk

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory.md)

Crowdsourcing platforms and online panels where researchers recruit participants for surveys and experiments.

- data category: Online experiment and survey panels
- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Mechanical Turk, MTurk

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Online experiment and survey panels datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/online-experiment-and-survey-panels.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 483 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 587 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (143), management (121) and economics (112).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 15 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 59 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 | 178 | 142 | 483 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 48 | 47 | 21 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 43 | 34 | 27 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 33 | 31 | 23 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 19 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 13 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 15 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 49 | 173 | 160 | 128 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 29 |
| 2 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [University of Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-amsterdam.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [University of Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-zurich.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [University of Edinburgh](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-edinburgh.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 147 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 104 |
| 3 | Germany | 86 |
| 4 | Australia | 52 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 52 |
| 6 | China | 49 |
| 7 | Italy | 39 |
| 8 | France | 32 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 25 |
| 10 | Finland | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 2 | Amazon Mechanical Turk | 18 |
| 3 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 16 |
| 5 | crowdsourcing | 12 |
| 6 | digital labour markets | 10 |
| 7 | [transparency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transparency.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [ChatGPT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chatgpt.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2017.12.004) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2017-12-21 | Stefan Palan, Christian Schitter |
| 2 | 416 | 12.7 | [Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114542) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2024-02-14 | Marcello M. Mariani, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi |
| 3 | 362 | 3.2 | [Conducting interactive experiments online](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2) | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.05.022) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00976-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-01-21 | Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda, Aakriti Kumar et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Amazon Mechanical Turk most often with Twitter / X (77), Facebook (72) and Prolific (53); it has 59 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

*What papers use Amazon Mechanical Turk together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 77 | 1.4 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 72 | 1.9 |
| [Prolific](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific.md) | Dataset | 53 | 16.7 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 53 | 2.3 |
| [CloudResearch](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cloudresearch.md) | Dataset | 52 | 60.5 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 28 | 1.0 |
| [Reddit](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reddit.md) | Dataset | 27 | 3.6 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 25 | 2.0 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 22 | 2.2 |
| [Airbnb](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/airbnb.md) | Dataset | 19 | 2.0 |
| [Hugging Face Hub](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hugging-face-hub.md) | Dataset | 16 | 2.8 |
| [Yelp](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/yelp.md) | Dataset | 15 | 3.4 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*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?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10159-3) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41299-026-00280-7) | [Corporate Reputation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/corporate-reputation-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116628) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-026-10827-y) | [Information Systems Frontiers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-systems-frontiers.md) | Mohammad S. Najjar, Murtaza Nasir | Wichita State University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Asymmetric behavioural responses to updating caloric information](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-026-09511-y) | [Journal of Risk and Uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2026.10065) | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2026.103143) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10160-w) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104947) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | Tong Yin | Auburn University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Privacy concerns and choices under design friction: Evidence from cookie consent banners](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2026.101183) | [Information Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2026.102784) | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00940-w) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-026-09513-w) | [Journal of Risk and Uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty.md) | Yu Cao, C. Mónica Capra, Yuxin Su | World Bank; Claremont Graduate University; University of Arizona; … |

## Cite this page

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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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).