A powerful research tool.

As illustrated by the 150+ examples below, 1000Minds is widely used around the world for research and teaching involving Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Conjoint Analysis.

Via our academic awards, we offer free licenses to use 1000Minds for academic research and study that’s not funded commercially or from research grants. And please contact us if you’d like to use 1000Minds for teaching purposes (you’re very welcome!).

If you want to cite 1000Minds in your research, here’s the reference to its method (and for an introduction, read the Wikipedia article):

P Hansen & F Ombler (2009), “A new method for scoring multi-attribute value models using pairwise rankings of alternatives”, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 15, 87-107

As carried out at the following universities and other organisations, here are 150+ examples of journal articles, conference papers, theses, research projects, etc involving 1000Minds:

AbacusBio Ltd

  • T Byrne, P Fennessy, K Smith, P Hansen & P Amer, “Preference-based approaches to deriving breeding objectives: Application to sheep and plant breeding”, 19th Conference of Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Perth, 2011, AAABG Conference Proceedings 20 (news)

American College of Rheumatology / European League Against Rheumatism

The Australian National University

  • L Porfirio, “Prioritising ecosystem services in land use/cover change scenarios for the Australian Capital Region”, PhD (Environment-Society Systems), 2011

Colorado State University-Pueblo

  • C Beyer, J Eunice, B Gill, F Goeltzer, L Meisner, A Ritterling, A Yapor & R Zenetti, “MBA program priorities: Tuition, scheduling and executive treatment”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2011
  • M Sellers, T Oliveira, & S Giebel, “Ranking priorities for the storm chaser equipment market”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2011
  • R Belew, “Top traits of a NFL franchise quarterback prospect”, research project, Intermediate Microeconomics, 2011
  • K Wittek & R Cudd, “How do college-aged females rank the dating characteristics of college-aged males?”, research project, Intermediate Microeconomics, 2011
  • A Hebecker, P Hutny & M Tischner, “Using conjoint analysis to measure the tuition sensitivity of MBA students”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2010
  • T Byrd, A Knicely & A Serna, “Consumer preferences of cell phone pricing”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2010
  • B Burke & C Mauritz, “User preferences and changes in University Library opening and closing times”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2009
  • A Gartin, B Schleich & P Ecken, “A conjoint analysis of travel-agency customer preferences for Caribbean vacation packages”, Economics for Managers project, MBA, 2009

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Croatia University of Zagreb

  • A Kramo, “Customers’ pricing decisions and future profit planning”, MBA, 2009

Danish Technological Institute / University of Southern Denmark

De Montfort University

  • S Schlick, “Linking competitor intelligence with Strategic Decision-Making (SDM) through Decision Support Systems (DSS)”, PhD, 2011-

Dunedin City Council

  • A Christofferson, “Housing choice in Dunedin”, City Planning, District Plan Monitoring Series, Research Report 2007/1, Dunedin City Council, 2007

Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena

The Gertner Institute / Israel Ministry of Health

  • O Golan, “A decision-support tool for prioritization of new health technologies: The ‘Value for Money’ Chart”, 8th Annual Health Policy Conference, Israel, 2010
  • O Tal & O Golan, “Criteria for priority setting in health – Are there universal criteria for allocating resources for publicly funded healthcare?”, 7th Annual Health Policy Conference, Tel Aviv, 2008

Goethe University Frankfurt

  • T Degenhardt, J Schröder, E Marcillat & L Goerigk, “Improvement of decision making in industrial procurement and sales processes”, MBA Global Consulting Project, 2011

International Institute of Information Technology / Utrecht University

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

New Zealand Ministry of Health

  • P Hansen, A Hendry, R Naden, F Ombler, R Stewart (2012), “A new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services”, Clinical Governance: An International Journal (in press).

Also: A Barber, P Hansen, R Naden, F Ombler, R Stewart (2011), “Who’s next? A new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services”, Economics Discussion Papers No. 1104, University of Otago

Office of Health Economics

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

  • D Masri, W Assa'd & H Shabrouq, “Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm for 4G networks”, BSc, Telecommunications Engineering project, 2011

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

The Royal Society of New Zealand

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  • Y Sarig, I Priel, O Pliskin & E Hayun, “Zion 2 – Surveillance satellite project management”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9
  • A Shteinman, “Green Fleet – electric vehicles fleet”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9
  • D Feinstein, “Developing an atmospheric modeling system”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9
  • H Peleg, E Birenbaum, H Aharonov & A Kostianovsky, “Delek Green – residential solar electric power system”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9
  • L Roditi, “Generic sonar simulator”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9
  • Z Bareket, L Dgany & B Dveer, “Green Car – ‘green’ alternatives for gasoline cars”, Systems Engineering project, Master of Engineering, 2008-9

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

  • R Benito, "Evaluation of the viability of implementing a Wildlife Management Unit in the La Joya watershed in Querétaro, México”, Master of Integrated Watershed Management, 2011-

Universidad de Buenos Aires / CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences

  • P Graff & S McIntyre, “Selecting species for restoration of biodiversity in degraded landscapes”, Research project, 2010-

The University of Auckland / Green Lane Cardiovascular Service

University of Calgary / Alberta Health Services / Western Canada Waiting List Project

University of California Berkeley

  • T Schluchter & D Byler, “MeetMarket: Find your crowd”, Master's Final Project, Master of Information Management and Systems, 2011

The University of Edinburgh

  • S Kiarsi, “A framework for the evaluation of renewable energy in developing countries”, Dissertation, MSc (Geoscience), 2011

The University of Melbourne

  • K Bennell, F Dobson, R Hinman et al, “Identification of a standardised set of physical performance outcome measures for lower limb osteoarthritis”, OA Working Party project, 2011-

The University of New South Wales / City of Sydney Council

  • L Corkery, P Osmond, J Blair & S Ahrestani, “Integrating vegetative systems on buildings to help achieve Sustainable Sydney 2030 targets and address climate change adaptation: A pilot project with the City of Sydney”, research project, 2011-

University of Otago

Bio-Statistics

  • P Herbison, “A last attempt to rank studies for risk of bias using 1000Minds”, Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Colorado, 2010
  • P Herbison, “Can 1000Minds be used to provide a valid ranking of studies by risk of bias?”, Joint Meeting of the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group & the UK Meta-Analysis in Medicine Group, Freiburg, 2008
  • P Herbison, P Hansen, J Hay-Smith, M Lauti, F Ombler & D Wilson, “A new method for combining multiple outcomes to obtain overall results from randomised trials for chronic conditions”, 2008

Design Studies

  • D Willan, “StarDraft”, Strategic Design project, Bachelor of Applied Sciences, 2009

Economics

  • D Taylor, “Demeanour or degree: Which characteristics are perceived as the most important in prospective entrepreneurs?”, Honours dissertation, 2011
  • T Stevenson, “The cost of freedom: a revealed preference analysis of camping in New Zealand”, Honours dissertation, 2011
  • T Sullivan, “Health technology prioritisation”, PhD, 2009- (news)
  • B Wells, “Understanding variations in stated willingness-to-pay for energy efficiency”, Honours dissertation, 2010
  • P Thorsnes, C Smithies & T Bishop, “Market and householder valuation of improvements in home heating efficiency”, 2007-8
  • C Smithies, “Generation of cardinal value data from ordinal rankings”, PhD, 2004-

Energy Studies

Entrepreneurship

  • B Fay, “InFays – a new online tool for allocating advertising budgets”, Business Incubation project, Master of Entrepreneurship, 2010-

Geography

  • R Morgan & N Fletcher, “Evaluating software to capture value preferences”, 29th Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Ghana, 2009
  • N Fletcher, “Assessing 1000Minds in the environmental impact assessment process: deriving and modeling the environmental preferences of a community”, Master of Science, 2007-8 (news1, 2, 3)
  • A Christofferson, “Analysing residential preferences”, Master of Regional & Resource Planning, 2006

Human Nutrition

  • L Mainvil and colleagues, “Out of the box: What factors prevent families eating more fruits and vegetables?”, 2011-

Information Science

  • H Noorebad, “Multi-criteria decision-making models for selecting Business Intelligence (BI) applications”, BSc (Hons) dissertation, 2010

International Studies

  • W McGimpsey, “Sustainability preferences: An investigation of consumer demand for sustainability attributes with regard to New Zealand's agricultural sector”, Master of International Studies thesis, 2011

Marketing

  • M Li, “Changes in consumers’ attitudes and behaviours over time towards products and services in the beauty industry”, Master of Business, 2009

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  • M Vulavala, “Device selection process”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011
  • H Almakky, “AbacusBio Ltd’s use of 1000Minds: Business model and statistical process improvement”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011
  • M Keller, “CentrePort Wellington: An analysis of labour costs, workforce planning and scheduling”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2011
  • K Mailepors, “Emerging trends in Gen Y: influences of the worldwide recession”, Consultancy (‘540’) Project, 2009
  • C Wang, J Kelly, J Boiko, R Turton & S Sarkar, “Investment decision-making using 1000Minds, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) tool”, Managerial Economics project, 2011
  • C Wahl, M Bali & T Danson, “Redeveloping Dunedin: A natural disaster impact approach”, Managerial Economics project, 2011
  • E Joubert & P Van der Merwe, “So you think you can kill? Measuring stakeholders’ preferences concerning the punishment of serious crimes, with special reference to the death penalty”, Managerial Economics project, 2010
  • R Tokona, B Chapman, L Douglas & C Dubyk, “Sentencing criteria for prison inmates”, Managerial Economics project, 2009

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Medicine

  • A Barazanchi, F Brown, L Edmonds et al, “Comparison of a citizens’ jury with a formal decision-theoretic approach (1000Minds) for prioritising health technologies”, Trainee Intern Research Project, 2009

Zoology

  • T Byrne, “Development and comparison of approaches to the genetic improvement of sheep”, PhD, 2009-
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