Dirk Semmann

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Dirk Semmann is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Semmann has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Safety Research and 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Semmann's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers). Dirk Semmann is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers). Dirk Semmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Dirk Semmann's co-authors include Manfred Milinski, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, Ralf D. Sommerfeld, Alicia P. Melis, Jochem Marotzke, Arne Traulsen, H.-J. Krambeck, Theo C. M. Bakker, Jelena Grujić and Katrin Fehl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Semmann

19 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’ 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 250 500 750
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.

  1. Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’
    2002 983 citations Manfred Milinski, Dirk Semmann et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk Semmann Germany 16 2.6k 1.6k 945 640 377 19 3.3k
Hans-Jürgen Krambeck Germany 14 2.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 751 0.8× 612 1.0× 241 0.6× 25 3.2k
Christopher T. Dawes United States 28 1.8k 0.7× 696 0.4× 774 0.8× 363 0.6× 720 1.9× 91 3.5k
David P. Tracer United States 16 2.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 750 0.8× 109 0.2× 773 2.1× 28 3.6k
Bettina Rockenbach Germany 23 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 556 0.6× 125 0.2× 622 1.6× 67 3.5k
Charles Efferson Switzerland 21 1.3k 0.5× 453 0.3× 410 0.4× 128 0.2× 631 1.7× 52 2.1k
Paul E. Smaldino United States 24 1.1k 0.4× 292 0.2× 366 0.4× 130 0.2× 396 1.1× 78 2.2k
Natalie Henrich United States 9 2.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 834 0.9× 94 0.1× 987 2.6× 11 3.9k
Arthur J. Robson Canada 22 858 0.3× 687 0.4× 301 0.3× 123 0.2× 195 0.5× 80 2.5k
Pat Barclay Canada 26 1.8k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 81 0.1× 543 1.4× 59 2.7k
Jean Ensminger United States 15 2.3k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 701 0.7× 71 0.1× 788 2.1× 24 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Dirk Semmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dirk Semmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Semmann

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dirk Semmann. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dirk Semmann based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dirk Semmann. Dirk Semmann is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Marotzke, Jochem, Dirk Semmann, & Manfred Milinski. (2020). The economic interaction between climate change mitigation, climate migration and poverty. Nature Climate Change. 10(6). 518–525. 51 indexed citations
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Milinski, Manfred, Christian Hilbe, Dirk Semmann, Ralf D. Sommerfeld, & Jochem Marotzke. (2016). Humans choose representatives who enforce cooperation in social dilemmas through extortion. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10915–10915. 47 indexed citations
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Hahn, Tim, Karolien Notebaert, Christine Anderl, et al.. (2015). Reliance on functional resting-state network for stable task control predicts behavioral tendency for cooperation. NeuroImage. 118. 231–236. 13 indexed citations
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Grujić, Jelena, Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Manfred Milinski, et al.. (2014). A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner's Dilemma experiments: Conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 4615–4615. 91 indexed citations
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Fehl, Katrin, et al.. (2014). Costs for switching partners reduce network dynamics but not cooperative behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1792). 20141661–20141661. 37 indexed citations
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Grujić, Jelena, Torsten Röhl, Dirk Semmann, Manfred Milinski, & Arne Traulsen. (2012). Consistent Strategy Updating in Spatial and Non-Spatial Behavioral Experiments Does Not Promote Cooperation in Social Networks. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e47718–e47718. 48 indexed citations
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Fehl, Katrin, Ralf D. Sommerfeld, Dirk Semmann, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, & Manfred Milinski. (2012). I Dare You to Punish Me—Vendettas in Games of Cooperation. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45093–e45093. 22 indexed citations
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Post, Daniel J. van der & Dirk Semmann. (2011). Patch depletion, niche structuring and the evolution of co-operative foraging. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 335–335. 9 indexed citations
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Post, Daniel J. van der & Dirk Semmann. (2011). Local Orientation and the Evolution of Foraging: Changes in Decision Making Can Eliminate Evolutionary Trade-offs. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(10). e1002186–e1002186. 7 indexed citations
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Traulsen, Arne, Dirk Semmann, Ralf D. Sommerfeld, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, & Manfred Milinski. (2010). Human strategy updating in evolutionary games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(7). 2962–2966. 313 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P. & Dirk Semmann. (2010). How is human cooperation different?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 365(1553). 2663–2674. 201 indexed citations
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Sommerfeld, Ralf D., Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, Dirk Semmann, & Manfred Milinski. (2007). Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(44). 17435–17440. 268 indexed citations
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Milinski, Manfred, Dirk Semmann, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, & Jochem Marotzke. (2006). Stabilizing the Earth’s climate is not a losing game: Supporting evidence from public goods experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(11). 3994–3998. 275 indexed citations
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Semmann, Dirk, et al.. (2005). Reputation is valuable within and outside one?s own social group. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 57(6). 611–616. 108 indexed citations
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Semmann, Dirk, et al.. (2004). Strategic investment in reputation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 56(3). 75 indexed citations
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Semmann, Dirk, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, & Manfred Milinski. (2003). Volunteering leads to rock–paper–scissors dynamics in a public goods game. Nature. 425(6956). 390–393. 295 indexed citations
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Milinski, Manfred, Dirk Semmann, & Hans-Jürgen Krambeck. (2002). Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’. Nature. 415(6870). 424–426. 983 indexed citations breakdown →
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Milinski, Manfred, Dirk Semmann, & H.-J. Krambeck. (2002). Donors to charity gain in both indirect reciprocity and political reputation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 269(1494). 881–883. 214 indexed citations
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Milinski, Manfred, Dirk Semmann, Theo C. M. Bakker, & Hans-Jürgen Krambeck. (2001). Cooperation through indirect reciprocity: image scoring or standing strategy?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 268(1484). 2495–2501. 200 indexed citations

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