Karl Sigmund

357 total papers · 31.9k total citations
157 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Karl Sigmund is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Sigmund has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 39 papers in Genetics and 34 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Karl Sigmund's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (80 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (39 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (34 papers). Karl Sigmund is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (80 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (39 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (34 papers). Karl Sigmund collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and United Kingdom. Karl Sigmund's co-authors include Martin A. Nowak, Josef Hofbauer, Christoph Hauert, Peter Schuster, Hannelore Brandt, Arne Traulsen, Silvia De Monte, Karen M. Page, Christian Grillenberger and Manfred Denker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karl Sigmund

148 papers receiving 19.9k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary Games and Po... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1998 2005 1998 1993 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Karl Sigmund 15.3k 7.5k 6.9k 4.5k 3.4k 157 21.0k
Attila Szolnoki 14.8k 1.0× 8.0k 1.1× 5.1k 0.7× 5.4k 1.2× 3.1k 0.9× 187 16.6k
Christoph Hauert 11.7k 0.8× 7.0k 0.9× 4.0k 0.6× 4.1k 0.9× 2.1k 0.6× 97 13.7k
John Maynard Smith 15.0k 1.0× 18.2k 2.4× 3.4k 0.5× 5.0k 1.1× 3.3k 1.0× 227 47.6k
Matjaž Perc 17.3k 1.1× 9.0k 1.2× 5.7k 0.8× 6.7k 1.5× 3.8k 1.1× 575 37.1k
Josef Hofbauer 6.1k 0.4× 4.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.3× 3.3k 0.7× 534 0.2× 119 10.7k
Martin A. Nowak 37.3k 2.4× 24.5k 3.3× 14.1k 2.0× 14.6k 3.2× 7.4k 2.2× 487 81.3k
Arne Traulsen 8.4k 0.5× 5.8k 0.8× 2.9k 0.4× 2.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 222 12.0k
Yamir Moreno 6.1k 0.4× 2.4k 0.3× 1.1k 0.2× 2.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 246 26.9k
W D Hamilton 17.9k 1.2× 14.5k 1.9× 4.9k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 6.1k 1.8× 98 47.8k
Drew Fudenberg 6.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 6.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.3× 806 0.2× 203 21.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Karl Sigmund

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karl Sigmund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Sigmund

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karl Sigmund. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karl Sigmund 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 Karl Sigmund. Karl Sigmund is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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