Prolific
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Crowdsourcing platforms and online panels where researchers recruit participants for surveys and experiments.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 244 archived papers mentioned Prolific in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (15).
- Prolific was mentioned in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #26 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (4), Management (2), Marketing (2), Information Systems (1) and Tourism and Hospitality (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Economics Race and Policy (1), Journal of Business Ethics (1) and Corporate Reputation Review (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Prolific was mentioned in 258 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (65), economics (58) and marketing (41).
- 78 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Erasmus University Rotterdam (10), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6) and Durham University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business Research (19), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (11) and Experimental Economics (10).
- The most-cited of them is “FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-subject Image Generation with Localized Attention” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024), with 167 citations.
- Papers use Prolific most often with Amazon Mechanical Turk (53), Facebook (33) and Twitter / X (22); it has 15 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | 76 | 103 | 244 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 15 | 20 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 19 | 19 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 20 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 71 | 78 | 90 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Business Research | 19 |
| 2 | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | 11 |
| 3 | Experimental Economics | 10 |
| 4 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 9 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Ethics | 8 |
| 6 | Journal of Business and Psychology | 8 |
| 7 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 7 |
| 8 | Marketing Letters | 7 |
| 9 | Business & Information Systems Engineering | 7 |
| 10 | International Journal of Research in Marketing | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 10 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 3 | Durham University | 6 |
| 4 | Universität Hamburg | 6 |
| 5 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 6 |
| 6 | University College London | 5 |
| 7 | University of Amsterdam | 5 |
| 8 | University of Bath | 5 |
| 9 | University of Manchester | 5 |
| 10 | Virginia Tech | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 69 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 3 | Germany | 42 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 33 |
| 5 | Italy | 31 |
| 6 | Australia | 22 |
| 7 | France | 20 |
| 8 | China | 11 |
| 9 | Sweden | 10 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 9 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | consumer behavior | 9 |
| 2 | purchase intention | 8 |
| 3 | social preferences | 7 |
| 4 | willingness to pay | 7 |
| 5 | generative AI | 6 |
| 6 | large language models | 6 |
| 7 | prosocial behavior | 6 |
| 8 | scale development | 6 |
| 9 | social influence | 6 |
| 10 | anthropomorphism | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Mechanical Turk | Dataset | 53 | 16.7 |
| Dataset | 33 | 2.0 | |
| Twitter / X | Dataset | 22 | 0.9 |
| CloudResearch | Dataset | 18 | 47.7 |
| YouTube / TikTok | Dataset | 17 | 1.7 |
| Airbnb | Dataset | 8 | 1.9 |
| Dataset | 6 | 1.3 | |
| Dataset | 6 | 1.8 | |
| WITS / TRAINS tariff data | Dataset | 6 | 1.6 |
| International Energy Agency (IEA) | Dataset | 5 | 1.0 |
| Hugging Face Hub | Dataset | 4 | 1.6 |
| Wikipedia | Dataset | 4 | 0.7 |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | Charting the Divide: The Intersection of Healthcare Provider Demographics and Politics in the Post-Dobbs Regime | Journal of Economics Race and Policy | Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Myrick Clements Shinall | Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| 2026-10-29 | Hushed Whispers or Watchful Eyes? How Employees’ Source of Misconduct Information Differentially Affects Employees’ Whistle-Blowing and Managers’ Corrective Actions | Journal of Business Ethics | Jared Nai, Grace Ching Chi Ho, Yamon Min Ye et al. | Singapore Management University; Southern Methodist University; National University of Singapore; … |
| 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 | Color me aroused while keeping the cool | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Nadeesha H. Bandara, Elizabeth Gelfand Miller, George R. Milne et al. | University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Rhode Island |
| 2026-10-23 | The impact of LLM-based recommendations on decisions under uncertainty | Experimental Economics | Marty Haoyuan Chen, Emel Filiz‐Ozbay, Erkut Yusuf Ozbay | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2026-10-22 | What works when: calibrating temporal focus for crowdfunding success | Information & Management | Yu-Wei Lin, Shiyu Yang, Aravinda Garimella | Santa Clara University; San Francisco State University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2026-10-22 | Turning adversity into opportunity: Managerial interventions and employee responses to observed customer mistreatment | International Journal of Hospitality Management | Xiaowen Hu, Hongmin Yan, Siran Zhan | Queensland University of Technology; University of Manchester; Aston University; … |
| 2026-10-17 | Carbon taxes crowd out low-carbon choices: Evidence from a consumer experiment | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Alice Pizzo, Christina Annette Gravert, Jan Michael Bauer et al. | Copenhagen Business School; University of Copenhagen; University of Cambridge |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-06 | Beyond psychology and environment explanations: a linguistic microfoundation approach to entrepreneurs’ anxiety | Journal of Business Research | Nitish Singh, Stephen X. Zhang, Wenping Ye et al. | Saint Louis University; Baylor University; Jinan University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Prolific. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-prolific,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Prolific},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific}},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}