John Orbell

4.9k total citations
58 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

John Orbell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Orbell has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Safety Research and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Orbell's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (29 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (26 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). John Orbell is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (29 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (26 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). John Orbell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. John Orbell's co-authors include Robyn M. Dawes, Alphons J. C. van de Kragt, Randy T. Simmons, Linnda R. Caporael, Matthew Mulford, Peregrine Schwartz‐Shea, Toru Uno, Jean Stockard, Oleg Smirnov and Tingyin Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

John Orbell

57 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Orbell United States 23 1.8k 1.4k 452 417 404 58 3.1k
Cristina Bicchieri United States 27 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 508 1.1× 192 0.5× 444 1.1× 89 3.9k
Jean Ensminger United States 15 2.3k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 446 1.0× 701 1.7× 788 2.0× 24 3.9k
Dennis T. Regan United States 17 1.4k 0.8× 696 0.5× 374 0.8× 301 0.7× 791 2.0× 21 3.0k
Christoph Engel Germany 20 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 852 1.9× 163 0.4× 263 0.7× 229 3.0k
Colin Camerer United States 12 978 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 653 1.4× 215 0.5× 286 0.7× 21 2.5k
Christian Thöni Switzerland 21 2.0k 1.1× 2.4k 1.7× 662 1.5× 409 1.0× 317 0.8× 68 3.5k
Bettina Rockenbach Germany 23 1.9k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 467 1.0× 556 1.3× 622 1.5× 67 3.5k
Nancy R. Buchan United States 17 1.3k 0.7× 825 0.6× 287 0.6× 174 0.4× 681 1.7× 27 2.7k
Abigail Barr United Kingdom 24 2.8k 1.5× 2.3k 1.6× 909 2.0× 683 1.6× 779 1.9× 56 4.9k
Francesco Guala Italy 21 875 0.5× 768 0.5× 621 1.4× 157 0.4× 182 0.5× 78 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Orbell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Orbell

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All Works

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Smirnov, Oleg, Gallya Lahav, John Orbell, Minghua Zhang, & Tingyin Xiao. (2022). Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios. International Migration Review. 57(1). 36–67. 28 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Oleg, et al.. (2016). The relative importance of climate change and population growth for exposure to future extreme droughts. Climatic Change. 138(1-2). 41–53. 99 indexed citations
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Orbell, John. (2014). A friend in need : Thomas Lawrence and the Baring family. Burlington magazine/˜The œBurlington magazine. 156(1334). 307–310.
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Johnson, Tim, Mikhail Myagkov, & John Orbell. (2012). Distinctive Preferences Toward Risk in the Substantive Domain of Sociality*. Political Psychology. 34(1). 1–22. 5 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2011). Toward a theory of revolution The legacy of James C. Davies in historical perspective. Politics and the Life Sciences. 30(1). 85–90. 2 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Oleg, Holly Arrow, Douglas J. Kennett, & John Orbell. (2007). Ancestral War and the Evolutionary Origins of “Heroism”. The Journal of Politics. 69(4). 927–940. 32 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Oleg, Holly Arrow, & John Orbell. (2006). ‘Heroism’ in Warfare As a Functionally Specific Form of Altruism.. 1 indexed citations
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Myagkov, Mikhail, et al.. (2005). A Bias toward Loss Aversion in the Choice to Enter Risky Cooperative Games. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Mikhail Myagkov, & John Orbell. (2004). Sociality as a defensive response to the threat of loss. Politics and the Life Sciences. 23(2). 13–19. 1 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2004). ‘Social Poker’. Rationality and Society. 16(2). 225–248. 7 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2003). Modeling cognitive evolution: A reply to Stone. Politics and the Life Sciences. 22(2). 41–43. 1 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2003). Conflict, interpersonal assessment, and the evolution of cooperation: Simulation results. 170–206. 3 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2002). The Evolution of Political Intelligence: Simulation Results. British Journal of Political Science. 32(4). 613–639. 7 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (2002). Cognitive requirements for hawk-dove games: A functional analysis for evolutionary design. Politics and the Life Sciences. 21(1). 3–12. 10 indexed citations
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Caporael, Linnda R., Robyn M. Dawes, John Orbell, & Alphons J. C. van de Kragt. (1989). Selfishness examined: Cooperation in the absence of egoistic incentives. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12(4). 683–699. 302 indexed citations
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Kragt, Alphons J. C. van de, Robyn M. Dawes, & John Orbell. (1988). Are people who cooperate ‘rational altruists’?. Public Choice. 56(3). 233–247. 16 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (1974). Social Peace as a Collective Good or How well does ‘Well does Leviathan…?’ undermine ‘Can Leviathan…?’?. British Journal of Political Science. 4(4). 501–510. 2 indexed citations
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Orbell, John, et al.. (1973). Can Leviathan Make the Life of Man Less Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short?. British Journal of Political Science. 3(4). 383–407. 11 indexed citations
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Orbell, John. (1970). The Impact of Metropolitan Residence on Social and Political Orientations.. Social Science Quarterly. 1 indexed citations
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Orbell, John. (1967). Protest Participation among Southern Negro College Students. American Political Science Review. 61(2). 446–456. 22 indexed citations

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