Alex McAvoy

1.1k total citations
32 papers, 692 citations indexed

About

Alex McAvoy is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex McAvoy has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 692 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alex McAvoy's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (30 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (12 papers). Alex McAvoy is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (30 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (12 papers). Alex McAvoy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Alex McAvoy's co-authors include Christoph Hauert, Qi Su, Martin A. Nowak, Benjamin Allen, Joshua B. Plotkin, Long Wang, Yoichiro Mori, Edward O. Wilson, John Wakeley and Aming Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alex McAvoy

32 papers receiving 681 citations

Peers

Alex McAvoy

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Jinming Du China

Julia Poncela-Casasnovas Spain

Julián García Australia

Danyang Jia China

Naghmeh Momeni Canada

Alberto Antonioni Spain

C. Xu China

Linjie Liu China

Sven Van Segbroeck Belgium

Jinming Du China

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292 ×0.8

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McAvoy, Alex, Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, et al.. (2025). Unilateral incentive alignment in two-agent stochastic games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319927121–e2319927121. 2 indexed citations

Barfuß, Wolfram, Jessica C. Flack, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, et al.. (2025). Collective cooperative intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319948121–e2319948121. 1 indexed citations

McAvoy, Alex, et al.. (2025). Behavioral alignment in social networks. National Science Review. 12(11). nwaf403–nwaf403. 1 indexed citations

McAvoy, Alex, et al.. (2024). Evolution of reciprocity with limited payoff memory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2025). 20232493–20232493. 3 indexed citations

Hauert, Christoph & Alex McAvoy. (2024). Frequency-dependent returns in nonlinear public goods games. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(219). 20240334–20240334. 4 indexed citations

Su, Qi, Alex McAvoy, & Joshua B. Plotkin. (2023). Strategy evolution on dynamic networks. Nature Computational Science. 3(9). 763–776. 40 indexed citations

Su, Qi, Alex McAvoy, & Joshua B. Plotkin. (2022). Evolution of cooperation with contextualized behavior. Science Advances. 8(6). eabm6066–eabm6066. 21 indexed citations

Su, Qi, Alex McAvoy, Yoichiro Mori, & Joshua B. Plotkin. (2022). Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(3). 338–348. 73 indexed citations

McAvoy, Alex, et al.. (2022). Payoff landscapes and the robustness of selfish optimization in iterated games. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 84(6). 55–55. 2 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex, et al.. (2021). Intriguing effects of selection intensity on the evolution of prosocial behaviors. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009611–e1009611. 9 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex & Benjamin Allen. (2021). Fixation probabilities in evolutionary dynamics under weak selection. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 82(3). 14–14. 43 indexed citations

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Kaveh, Kamran, Alex McAvoy, Krishnendu Chatterjee, & Martin A. Nowak. (2020). The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(11). e1008402–e1008402. 4 indexed citations

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Su, Qi, Alex McAvoy, Long Wang, & Martin A. Nowak. (2019). Evolutionary dynamics with stochastic game transitions. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Hauert, Christoph, et al.. (2018). Asymmetric evolutionary games with environmental feedback. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 462. 347–360. 73 indexed citations

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Kaveh, Kamran, Alex McAvoy, & Martin A. Nowak. (2017). The effect of spatial fitness heterogeneity on fixation probability. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex & Christoph Hauert. (2016). Autocratic strategies for iterated games with arbitrary action spaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(13). 3573–3578. 55 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu-Ting, Alex McAvoy, & Martin A. Nowak. (2016). Fixation Probabilities for Any Configuration of Two Strategies on Regular Graphs. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 39181–39181. 13 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex & Christoph Hauert. (2015). Structural symmetry in evolutionary games. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 12(111). 20150420–20150420. 15 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex & Christoph Hauert. (2015). Asymmetric Evolutionary Games. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(8). e1004349–e1004349. 61 indexed citations

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McAvoy, Alex & Christoph Hauert. (2015). Structure coefficients and strategy selection in multiplayer games. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 72(1-2). 203–238. 20 indexed citations

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