Christoph Hauert

19.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
97 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Christoph Hauert is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Hauert has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 50 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Christoph Hauert's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (81 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (50 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (30 papers). Christoph Hauert is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (81 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (50 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (30 papers). Christoph Hauert collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Christoph Hauert's co-authors include Martin A. Nowak, Michael Doebeli, Karl Sigmund, E. James Lieberman, György Szabó, Arne Traulsen, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Josef Hofbauer, Silvia De Monte and Hannelore Brandt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Hauert

96 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks

2006 1.6k citations Christoph Hauert et al. profile →
Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift game

2004 1.2k citations Christoph Hauert, Michael Doebeli profile →
Evolutionary dynamics on graphs

2005 886 citations Christoph Hauert et al. profile →
Volunteering as Red Queen Mechanism for Cooperation in Public Goods Games

2002 817 citations Christoph Hauert et al. profile →
Models of cooperation based on the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Snowdrift game

2005 647 citations Michael Doebeli, Christoph Hauert profile →
Reputation-based partner choice promotes cooperation in social networks

2008 559 citations Christoph Hauert et al. profile →
Via Freedom to Coercion: The Emergence of Costly Punishment

2007 544 citations Christoph Hauert, Arne Traulsen et al. profile →
Phase Transitions and Volunteering in Spatial Public Goods Games

2002 516 citations György Szabó, Christoph Hauert Physical Review Letters profile →
Social learning promotes institutions for governing the commons

2010 433 citations Arne Traulsen, Christoph Hauert et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Hauert Canada	49	11.8k	6.9k	4.1k	4.0k	2.3k	97	13.7k
Attila Szolnoki Hungary	65	14.9k 1.3×	8.0k 1.1×	5.4k 1.3×	5.1k 1.3×	4.1k 1.8×	188	16.7k
Francisco C. Santos Portugal	41	7.0k 0.6×	3.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	2.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	142	8.3k
Hisashi Ohtsuki Japan	34	5.2k 0.4×	3.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	104	7.0k
Peter Taylor Canada	37	4.4k 0.4×	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	953 0.2×	377 0.2×	136	8.5k
Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes Spain	47	2.9k 0.2×	1.6k 0.2×	1.2k 0.3×	566 0.1×	4.2k 1.8×	144	8.2k
Ángel Sánchez Spain	38	2.9k 0.2×	1.3k 0.2×	802 0.2×	1.1k 0.3×	1.9k 0.8×	213	5.9k
George Price United Kingdom	10	3.6k 0.3×	2.7k 0.4×	899 0.2×	842 0.2×	377 0.2×	30	6.6k
Tom Lenaerts Belgium	31	2.1k 0.2×	1.4k 0.2×	614 0.1×	810 0.2×	657 0.3×	147	3.9k
Brian Skyrms United States	33	2.4k 0.2×	596 0.1×	195 0.0×	1.1k 0.3×	659 0.3×	140	5.2k
E. James Lieberman United States	12	2.2k 0.2×	1.3k 0.2×	783 0.2×	439 0.1×	707 0.3×	42	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Hauert

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Izquierdo, Segismundo S., Luis R. Izquierdo, & Christoph Hauert. (2025). Positive and negative selective assortment. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 608. 112129–112129.

Hauert, Christoph & György Szabó. (2025). Phase transitions and symmetry breaking of cooperation on lattices. Physical review. E. 111(5). 54308–54308. 1 indexed citations

Hauert, Christoph & György Szabó. (2024). Spontaneous symmetry breaking of cooperation between species. PNAS Nexus. 3(9). pgae326–pgae326. 2 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

Vliet, Simon van, et al.. (2022). Global dynamics of microbial communities emerge from local interaction rules. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(3). e1009877–e1009877. 19 indexed citations

Ito, Koichi, et al.. (2021). On the importance of evolving phenotype distributions on evolutionary diversification. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1008733–e1008733. 2 indexed citations

Hauert, Christoph & Michael Doebeli. (2021). Spatial social dilemmas promote diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(42). 12 indexed citations

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

Hauert, Christoph, et al.. (2019). Directed migration shapes cooperation in spatial ecological public goods games. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(8). e1006948–e1006948. 7 indexed citations

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Otto, Sarah P., et al.. (2019). A sheep in wolf’s clothing: levels of deceit and detection in the evolution of cue-mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1910). 20191425–20191425. 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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Hauert, Christoph, et al.. (2016). Fixation probabilities on superstars, revisited and revised. 18 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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Gokhale, Chaitanya S. & Christoph Hauert. (2016). Eco-evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas. Theoretical Population Biology. 111. 28–42. 57 indexed citations

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Huang, Weini, Christoph Hauert, & Arne Traulsen. (2015). Stochastic game dynamics under demographic fluctuations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(29). 9064–9069. 72 indexed citations

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Hauert, Christoph. (2013). Evolutionary dynamics in finite populations. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Bin, Julián García, Christoph Hauert, & Arne Traulsen. (2013). Extrapolating Weak Selection in Evolutionary Games. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(12). e1003381–e1003381. 75 indexed citations

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Hauert, Christoph, et al.. (2010). Public goods games with reward in finite populations. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 63(1). 109–123. 27 indexed citations

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Albaret, Jean‐Michel, et al.. (2009). Des syncinésies aux mécanismes d'inhibition motrice chez l'enfant. IRIS. 157. 4–20. 1 indexed citations

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Szabó, György & Christoph Hauert. (2002). Phase Transitions and Volunteering in Spatial Public Goods Games. Physical Review Letters. 89(11). 118101–118101. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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