Athena Aktipis

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Athena Aktipis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Athena Aktipis has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Athena Aktipis's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (24 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (20 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Athena Aktipis is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (24 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (20 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Athena Aktipis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Athena Aktipis's co-authors include Carlo C. Maley, Joe Alcock, Gregory A. Bryant, Amy M. Boddy, Lee Cronk, Jessica Phillips-Silver, Randolph M. Nesse, Claudia Petritsch, Marnix Jansen and Hanlee P. Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Athena Aktipis

95 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Pan-cancer analysis of the extent and consequences of intratumor heterogeneity

2015 540 citations Athena Aktipis, Carlo C. Maley et al. profile →
Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity

2015 267 citations Athena Aktipis, Carlo C. Maley et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Athena Aktipis United States	29	1.0k	770	756	644	458	102	3.7k
Michael C. Edwards United States	39	1.7k 1.7×	310 0.4×	164 0.2×	832 1.3×	374 0.8×	209	6.1k
Michael Lachmann United States	34	2.3k 2.2×	663 0.9×	275 0.4×	2.1k 3.3×	239 0.5×	72	5.2k
Richard Green United States	38	1.0k 1.0×	236 0.3×	221 0.3×	269 0.4×	800 1.7×	187	4.4k
Hisashi Ohtsuki Japan	34	566 0.5×	5.2k 6.8×	370 0.5×	3.2k 5.0×	238 0.5×	104	7.0k
Frank C. Richardson United States	35	1.5k 1.5×	365 0.5×	768 1.0×	127 0.2×	1.1k 2.4×	155	6.1k
Karen M. Page United Kingdom	34	2.5k 2.5×	828 1.1×	54 0.1×	592 0.9×	117 0.3×	67	4.4k
Hagit Achdout Israel	26	1.2k 1.1×	175 0.2×	124 0.2×	308 0.5×	128 0.3×	56	5.8k
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza United States	44	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.7×	137 0.2×	5.0k 7.7×	541 1.2×	109	9.8k
Vincenzo Russo Italy	39	1.0k 1.0×	638 0.8×	425 0.6×	870 1.4×	456 1.0×	197	5.2k
Tom Lenaerts Belgium	31	906 0.9×	2.1k 2.8×	91 0.1×	1.4k 2.2×	66 0.1×	147	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Athena Aktipis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Athena Aktipis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Athena Aktipis

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard, Franziska Klein, Didier Wernli, et al.. (2025). Association between national action and trends in antibiotic resistance: an analysis of 73 countries from 2000 to 2023. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0004127–e0004127. 2 indexed citations

Aktipis, Athena, et al.. (2025). Neuroimmune Pain and Its Manipulation by Pathogens. Evolutionary Applications. 18(4). e70098–e70098.

Rupp, Shawn, Tara M. Harrison, Mathieu Giraudeau, et al.. (2024). Life history traits and cancer prevalence in birds. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 12(1). 105–116. 4 indexed citations

Danel, Dariusz P., Athena Aktipis, J. Colette Berbesque, et al.. (2024). Height and integration in proximity networks among Tanzanian Hadza men. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(10). e24129–e24129.

Ayers, Jessica D., Joe Alcock, Lee Cronk, et al.. (2024). Shared fate was associated with sustained cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE. 19(9). e0307829–e0307829. 1 indexed citations

Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2023). COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors. Personality and Individual Differences. 213. 112297–112297. 3 indexed citations

Ayers, Jessica D., Jaimie Arona Krems, & Athena Aktipis. (2023). A factor analytic examination of women's and men's friendship preferences. Personality and Individual Differences. 206. 112120–112120. 6 indexed citations

Shiota, Michelle N., et al.. (2023). Empathic concern motivates willingness to help in the absence of interdependence.. Emotion. 24(3). 628–647. 2 indexed citations

Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2022). What is Reciprocity? A Review and Expert-based Classification of Cooperative Transfers. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Boddy, Amy M., Shawn Rupp, Zhe Yu, et al.. (2022). Early life adversity, reproductive history and breast cancer risk. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 10(1). 429–438.

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Ayers, Jessica D., Daniel Sznycer, Daniel Sullivan, et al.. (2022). Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 17(3). 259–284. 13 indexed citations

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Krems, Jaimie Arona, Scott Claessens, Melissa R. Fales, et al.. (2021). An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(6). 726–735. 8 indexed citations

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Cronk, Lee, et al.. (2021). “A Solidarity-Type World”: Need-Based Helping among Ranchers in the Southwestern United States. Human Nature. 32(2). 482–508. 6 indexed citations

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Aktipis, Athena, Roger M. Whitaker, & Jessica D. Ayers. (2020). Do Smartphones Create a Coordination Problem for Face‐to‐Face Interaction? Leveraging Game Theory to Understand and Solve the Smartphone Dilemma. BioEssays. 42(4). e1800261–e1800261. 4 indexed citations

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Krems, Jaimie Arona, Keelah E. G. Williams, Athena Aktipis, & Douglas T. Kenrick. (2020). Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 120(4). 977–1012. 32 indexed citations

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Aktipis, Athena, et al.. (2020). Can some microbes promote host stress and benefit evolutionarily from this strategy?. BioEssays. 43(1). e2000188–e2000188. 3 indexed citations

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Lacroix, Laurent, Julia Lehmann, Athena Aktipis, et al.. (2020). Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter–gatherer society. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. 13 indexed citations

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Alcock, Joe, et al.. (2019). Kombucha: a novel model system for cooperation and conflict in a complex multi-species microbial ecosystem. PeerJ. 7. e7565–e7565. 122 indexed citations

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Tidball, Keith G. & Athena Aktipis. (2018). Feedback enhances greening during disaster recovery: A model of social and ecological processes in neighborhood scale investment. Urban forestry & urban greening. 34. 269–280. 19 indexed citations

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Aktipis, Athena & Carlo C. Maley. (2017). Cooperation and cheating as innovation: insights from cellular societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1735). 20160421–20160421. 14 indexed citations

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