Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Health Decision Analysis
Decision analysis is well suited to dealing with emerging topics in health care, which are often characterized by the need to make decisions in the face of uncertainty, conflicting objectives, limited evidence, and complex trade-offs. Decision Analysis is therefore seeking papers on emerging topics in health decision analysis.
See Calls for Papers for more information.
Decision Analysis
Recognizes Best Papers
for 2019
The Decision Analysis Special Recognition Award is given annually for the paper most worthy of recognition published in Decision Analysis. For more information: https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/deca/decision-analysis-special-recognition-award
WINNER:
Yuyu Fan, David V. Budescu, David Mandel, Mark Himmelstein
Improving Accuracy by Coherence Weighting of Direct and Ratio Probability Judgments
FINALISTS:
Mark Schneider, Cary Deck, Mikhael Shor, Tibor Besedeš, Sudipta Sarangi
Optimizing Choice Architectures
Manel Baucells, Rakesh K. Sarin
The Myopic Property in Decision Models
Special thanks to the 2019 Award Selection Committee:
Andrea Hupman (chair), Robert Bordley, John Butler, and Eva Regnier
Double Blind Review is Here
Beginning January 1, 2020, Decision Analysis will conduct double-blind reviews on all new submissions. This means that both authors and reviewers are 'blind' to the identity of each other. Authors are asked to remove all identifying-information from their manuscripts. For more information see the journal's Submission Guidelines.
Decision Analysis Ranked as "A" Journal
The Decision Analysis journal is now ranked as an "A" journal on the ABDC Journal Quality List. This list is used by many academic programs as an indicator of journal quality.
2019 Ramsey Medalist
Raimo P. Hämäläinen has been named by the Decision Analysis Society as the 2019 Ramsey Medalist. He is a Professor Emeritus (since 2016) at Aalto University in Finland and is an Honorary Visiting Professor at Loughborough University in England. Dr. Hämäläinen is a longtime contributor to the Decision Analysis Society (of INFORMS and its predecessors), including as an editorial board member for Decision Analysis, conference speaker, and Chairman of the European Assembly of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS (1996 – 1998), and a full member of ORSA.
The Frank P. Ramsey Medal is the highest award of the Decision Analysis Society (DAS). It was created to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis. The 2019 selection committee was Jason Merrick (Chair, Ex Officio as Past President of DAS), Manel Baucells, Jim Dyer, Robin Keller, and Detlof von Winterfeldt.
