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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Syed Imran Ali Meerza

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Researcher

Also affiliated: Khulna University (2010–2011); South Dakota State University (2012)

Faculty Researcher

9 h-index 47 pubs 192 cited

  • Olive Oil
  • Choice Behavior
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Food
  • Fraud
  • Humans
  • COVID-19
  • Information Avoidance
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Knowledge
  • Young Adult
  • Emotions

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Syed Imran Ali Meerza's research focuses on consumer behavior, decision-making, and the application of machine learning techniques to address societal and health-related issues. His work investigates how information influences consumer valuation, particularly in the context of food products and biofortified crops. Meerza also studies information avoidance behaviors, examining factors that lead individuals to disengage from important health information, such as antimicrobial resistance and the implications of COVID-19 stressors on health awareness.

His research extends to the application of machine learning for predicting outcomes like student retention and identifying food-insecure households. Meerza also explores consumer attitudes towards agricultural practices, including antibiotic use in livestock. His scholarship includes 45 publications and has garnered 189 citations, with an h-index of 9. He has collaborated with Afsana Ahamed and Mohammad Sajidul Islam on several publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 47
  • Citations: 192

Selected Publications

  • Price Transmission and Leadership in the Global Poultry Market: Results From Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches (2026)
    Agribusiness DOI OpenAlex
  • Good News or Bad News First? The Impact of Sequential Information and Recency Bias on Consumers’ Valuations of Zinc Rice (2025)
    Agribusiness DOI OpenAlex
  • Exploring Public Perception Towards Gene‐Edited and Genetically Modified Foods in the United States: An Application of the Spiral of Silence Theory (2025)
    Agribusiness 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)
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy DOI OpenAlex
  • 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)
    PLOS mental health. DOI OpenAlex
  • Risk Propensity and Acceptance of Gene-edited and Genetically Modified Food among US Consumers: A Comparison between Plants and Animal Products (2024)
    Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat (2023)
    PLoS ONE 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Consumers’ valuation of a biofortified crop: Evidence from a laboratory experiment (2023)
    Agricultural Economics 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding the Prediction of Student Retention Behavior during covid-19 Using Effective Data Mining Techniques (2023)
    Research Square 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)
    Sustainability 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Information avoidance behavior: Does ignorance keep us uninformed about antimicrobial resistance? (2021)
    Food Policy 16 citations DOI OpenAlex

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15 Collaborators 9 Institutions 4 Countries

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