Geoff Nitschke

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 724 citations indexed

About

Geoff Nitschke is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoff Nitschke has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 724 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Geoff Nitschke's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (35 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (28 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers). Geoff Nitschke is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (35 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (28 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers). Geoff Nitschke collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Netherlands and Australia. Geoff Nitschke's co-authors include Luke Taylor, Martijn C. Schut, A. E. Eiben, Neville Sweijd, David Howard, D. W. F. van Krevelen, Olaf Witkowski, Emma Hart, Akira Kakugo and Andrew M. Garrett and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Molecular Neurobiology and Lecture notes in computer science.

In The Last Decade

Geoff Nitschke

61 papers receiving 695 citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geoff Nitschke South Africa	10	299	163	104	84	56	74	724
Rehanullah Khan Pakistan	12	211 0.7×	211 1.3×	41 0.4×	20 0.2×	56 1.0×	32	1.1k
Fangyu Liu China	24	646 2.2×	267 1.6×	220 2.1×	35 0.4×	21 0.4×	67	1.6k
Xi Wei China	17	279 0.9×	252 1.5×	57 0.5×	20 0.2×	63 1.1×	70	1.0k
Michael Greenspan Canada	20	127 0.4×	811 5.0×	71 0.7×	50 0.6×	102 1.8×	91	1.4k
Nouman Ali Pakistan	20	169 0.6×	741 4.5×	51 0.5×	27 0.3×	28 0.5×	51	1.3k
Ye Zhao United States	23	145 0.5×	759 4.7×	77 0.7×	43 0.5×	55 1.0×	71	1.5k
Di Lin China	17	310 1.0×	793 4.9×	40 0.4×	29 0.3×	98 1.8×	50	1.2k
Khalid Saeed Poland	17	181 0.6×	343 2.1×	28 0.3×	26 0.3×	15 0.3×	98	887
Sergio Damas Spain	25	320 1.1×	653 4.0×	56 0.5×	27 0.3×	39 0.7×	88	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Geoff Nitschke

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Geoff Nitschke

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2025). Protocadherin γC4 Promotes Neuronal Survival in the Mouse Retina Through Its Variable Cytoplasmic Domain. Molecular Neurobiology. 62(12). 16081–16095.

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2024). Body and Brain Quality-Diversity in Robot Swarms. 5(1). 1–27.

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Morphological Diversity in Robot Swarms. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 65–74. 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2023). Evolving Herding Behaviour Diversity in Robot Swarms. 95–98. 2 indexed citations

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Aubert-Kato, Nathanaël, Geoff Nitschke, Ibuki Kawamata, & Akira Kakugo. (2023). Collective Cargo Transport and Sorting with Molecular Swarms. 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2023). Evolving Behavior Allocations in Robot Swarms. Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University). 1526–1531.

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2022). Predicting diarrhoea outbreaks with climate change. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0262008–e0262008. 15 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff & David Howard. (2021). AutoFac: The Perpetual Robot Machine. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 3(1). 2–10. 9 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2020). Automating Coordinated Autonomous Vehicle Control. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1867–1868. 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2019). Evolving optimal sun-shading building façades. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. 393–394. 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2017). Evolving Collective Driving Behaviors. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1573–1574. 2 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2017). Autonomous intersection driving with neuro-evolution. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. 133–134. 4 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2016). The Evolution of Evolvability in Evolutionary Robotics. 260–267.

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Nitschke, Geoff, et al.. (2015). Searching for novelty in pole balancing. 1792–1798. 1 indexed citations

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Gain, James, et al.. (2014). Comparing crossover operators in Neuro-Evolution with crowd simulations. 99. 2298–2305. 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff, Martijn C. Schut, & A. E. Eiben. (2011). Evolving behavioral specialization in robot teams to solve a collective construction task. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. 2. 25–38. 39 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff. (2005). Designing emergent cooperation: a pursuit–evasion game case study. Artificial Life and Robotics. 9(4). 222–233. 4 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff. (2005). Emergence of Cooperation: State of the Art. Artificial Life. 11(3). 367–396. 15 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Geoff. (2003). Emergence of Cooperation in a Multiple Predator, Single Prey Game. The Florida AI Research Society. 5(1). 234–238.

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Nitschke, Geoff. (2003). Emergence of cooperation in a pursuit-evasion game. 639–644.

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