Syed Imran Ali Meerza Data-verified

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Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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9 h-index 45 pubs 186 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Syed Imran Ali Meerza investigates consumer behavior, particularly in relation to food choices and information consumption. His work includes examining how consumers value products, such as biofortified crops, through experimental auctions. Meerza also studies information avoidance behaviors, exploring factors that influence why individuals may choose to remain uninformed about critical health issues like antimicrobial resistance, and how stressors, such as those related to COVID-19, can exacerbate this tendency. His research also applies machine learning techniques to predict outcomes like student retention and identify vulnerable households experiencing food insecurity. Meerza has published 44 papers, with a total of 182 citations, and holds an h-index of 9. He has collaborated with Mohammad Sajidul Islam on shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 45
  • Citations: 186

Selected Publications

  • Good News or Bad News First? The Impact of Sequential Information and Recency Bias on Consumers’ Valuations of Zinc Rice (2025)
  • Exploring Public Perception Towards Gene‐Edited and Genetically Modified Foods in the United States: An Application of the Spiral of Silence Theory (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The Effects of Information Interventions and Social Interactions on the Valuations of Zinc Rice Seeds: Evidence From a Field Experiment With Rice Farmers (2025)
  • The role of hopelessness in mediating the relationship between income loss and delaying and foregoing healthcare: Evidence from repeated cross-sectional waves of the Household Pulse Survey (2025)
  • Risk Propensity and Acceptance of Gene-edited and Genetically Modified Food among US Consumers: A Comparison between Plants and Animal Products (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat (2023)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Consumers’ valuation of a biofortified crop: Evidence from a laboratory experiment (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding the Prediction of Student Retention Behavior during covid-19 Using Effective Data Mining Techniques (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Prediction of Diabetes at Early Stage using Interpretable Machine Learning (2023)
    16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Impact of Information on Valuation in Experimental Auctions: A Comparison of Between and Within Subject Designs (2023)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Who Thinks COVID-19 is not a Crisis? Need for Cognition and Political Ideology Influence Perceptions of the Severity of COVID-19 (2023)
  • Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase avoidance of health information and access to care (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • U.S. Consumer Attitudes toward Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production (2022)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Information avoidance behavior: Does ignorance keep us uninformed about antimicrobial resistance? (2021)
    15 citations DOI OpenAlex

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