Alberto Acerbi

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alberto Acerbi is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Acerbi has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 34 papers in Cultural Studies and 16 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Alberto Acerbi's work include Language and cultural evolution (34 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (34 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (16 papers). Alberto Acerbi is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (34 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (34 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (16 papers). Alberto Acerbi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Netherlands. Alberto Acerbi's co-authors include Alex Mesoudi, Stefano Ghirlanda, R. Alexander Bentley, Claudio Tennie, Magnus Enquist, Manon Berriche, Vasileios Lampos, Harold Herzog, Joseph Stubbersfield and Philip Garnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Acerbi

70 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

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Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments

2023 60 citations Alberto Acerbi, Joseph Stubbersfield Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Acerbi United Kingdom	25	847	430	304	209	165	73	1.6k
Chris Knight United Kingdom	18	206 0.2×	400 0.9×	254 0.8×	85 0.4×	177 1.1×	64	1.7k
Pontus Strimling Sweden	20	769 0.9×	283 0.7×	412 1.4×	43 0.2×	89 0.5×	77	1.4k
Charles Efferson Switzerland	21	1.3k 1.5×	416 1.0×	631 2.1×	14 0.1×	128 0.8×	52	2.1k
Fiona M. Jordan United Kingdom	16	337 0.4×	507 1.2×	161 0.5×	77 0.4×	154 0.9×	46	1.2k
Peter Singer United States	22	733 0.9×	30 0.1×	183 0.6×	60 0.3×	84 0.5×	91	2.5k
Cody T. Ross United States	19	770 0.9×	126 0.3×	296 1.0×	18 0.1×	79 0.5×	60	1.4k
Charbel Niño El-Hani Brazil	23	361 0.4×	93 0.2×	251 0.8×	38 0.2×	166 1.0×	183	1.9k
Sriram Kalyanaraman United States	18	803 0.9×	19 0.0×	330 1.1×	74 0.4×	52 0.3×	65	1.8k
Dunbar United Kingdom	8	274 0.3×	105 0.2×	334 1.1×	46 0.2×	38 0.2×	10	930
Paul E. Smaldino United States	24	1.1k 1.2×	221 0.5×	396 1.3×	146 0.7×	130 0.8×	78	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Acerbi

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Bonacchi, Chiara, et al.. (2025). Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2031–2031. 1 indexed citations

Acerbi, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Weak individual preferences stabilize culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(8). e2412380122–e2412380122. 1 indexed citations

Baumann, Fabian, Jean‐François Bonnefon, Maxime Derex, et al.. (2023). Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(11). 1855–1868. 42 indexed citations

Stubbersfield, Joseph, et al.. (2023). Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 9 indexed citations

Singh, Manvir, Alberto Acerbi, Christine A. Caldwell, et al.. (2021). Beyond social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200050–20200050. 18 indexed citations

Jansson, Fredrik, et al.. (2021). Modelling cultural systems and selective filters. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200045–20200045. 13 indexed citations

Morin, Olivier, Pierre O. Jacquet, Krist Vaesen, & Alberto Acerbi. (2021). Social information use and social information waste. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200052–20200052. 33 indexed citations

Morin, Olivier, Pierre O. Jacquet, Krist Vaesen, & Alberto Acerbi. (2020). Social information use and social information waste. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

Morin, Olivier, et al.. (2019). Why people die in novels: testing the ordeal simulation hypothesis. Palgrave Communications. 5(1). 17 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, et al.. (2019). Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1. e11–e11. 41 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto. (2016). A Cultural Evolution Approach to Digital Media. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10. 636–636. 34 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto & Alex Mesoudi. (2015). If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution. Biology & Philosophy. 30(4). 481–503. 93 indexed citations

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Ghirlanda, Stefano, Alberto Acerbi, & Harold Herzog. (2014). Dog Movie Stars and Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study in Media Influence on Choice. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e106565–e106565. 44 indexed citations

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Bentley, R. Alexander, Alberto Acerbi, Paul Ormerod, & Vasileios Lampos. (2014). Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e83147–e83147. 42 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, Vasileios Lampos, Philip Garnett, & R. Alexander Bentley. (2013). The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59030–e59030. 90 indexed citations

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Maida, Giovanni Andrea La, et al.. (2012). Cement leakage: safety of minimally invasive surgical techniques in the treatment of multiple myeloma vertebral lesions. European Spine Journal. 21(S1). 61–68. 26 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, Stefano Ghirlanda, & Magnus Enquist. (2012). The Logic of Fashion Cycles. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32541–e32541. 63 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, Claudio Tennie, & Charles L. Nunn. (2010). Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces. Learning & Behavior. 39(2). 104–114. 25 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, Patrick McNamara, & Charles L. Nunn. (2008). To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms. BMC Ecology. 8(1). 10–10. 10 indexed citations

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Veronesi, Umberto, Roberto Orecchia, Stefano Zurrida, et al.. (2005). Avoiding axillary dissection in breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial to assess the role of axillary radiotherapy. Annals of Oncology. 16(3). 383–388. 121 indexed citations

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