---
title: "Prolific: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Prolific

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.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: Prolific Academic, Prolific platform, recruited via Prolific, recruited on Prolific, recruited through Prolific, Prolific.co, Prolific.com

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, 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 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #31 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (4), Marketing (2), Management (1), 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

*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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 65 | 76 | 103 | 244 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 15 | 20 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 19 | 19 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 20 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Marketing Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/marketing-letters.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Research in Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-research-in-marketing.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Universität Hamburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-hamburg.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [University of Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-amsterdam.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Bath](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bath.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [consumer behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-behavior.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [purchase intention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/purchase-intention.md) | 8 |
| 3 | social preferences | 7 |
| 4 | [willingness to pay](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/willingness-to-pay.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 7 | prosocial behavior | 6 |
| 8 | [scale development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/scale-development.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [social influence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-influence.md) | 6 |
| 10 | anthropomorphism | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 167 | 6.5 | [FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-subject Image Generation with Localized Attention](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02227-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-09-19 | Guangxuan Xiao, Tianwei Yin, William T. Freeman et al. |
| 2 | 145 | 3.2 | [Social media-induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue: The role of narcissism, comparison and disclosure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113693) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2023-02-02 | Fauzia Jabeen, Anushree Tandon, Juthamon Sithipolvanichgul et al. |
| 3 | 109 | 2.6 | [Green and non-green outcomes of green human resource management (GHRM) in the tourism context](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104765) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2023-04-14 | Anushree Tandon, Amandeep Dhir, Poornima Madan et al. |
| 4 | 99 | 3.1 | [Evaluating SoJump.com as a tool for online behavioral research in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100905) | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-finance.md) | 2024-02-21 | Alessandro Del Ponte, Lianjun Li, Lina Ang et al. |
| 5 | 93 | 1.5 | [Social media users’ online subjective well-being and fatigue: A network heterogeneity perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121039) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-07-28 | Puneet Kaur, Nazrul Islam, Anushree Tandon et al. |

## Used together with

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.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/amazon-mechanical-turk.md) | Dataset | 53 | 16.7 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 33 | 2.0 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 22 | 0.9 |
| [CloudResearch](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cloudresearch.md) | Dataset | 18 | 47.7 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 17 | 1.7 |
| [Airbnb](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/airbnb.md) | Dataset | 8 | 1.9 |
| [LinkedIn](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/linkedin.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.3 |
| [Reddit](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reddit.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.8 |
| [WITS / TRAINS tariff data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wits-trains-tariff-data.md) | Dataset | 6 | 1.6 |
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.0 |
| [Hugging Face Hub](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/hugging-face-hub.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.6 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.7 |

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

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Prolific in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Charting the Divide: The Intersection of Healthcare Provider Demographics and Politics in the Post-Dobbs Regime](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41996-026-00206-9) | [Journal of Economics Race and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-race-and-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06498-z) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 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](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 | [Color me aroused while keeping the cool](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-026-01215-8) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2026.10062) | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2026.104456) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104939) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107798) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 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](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 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Prolific. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-prolific,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Prolific},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/prolific}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).