Karl Sigmund

32.1k total citations · 12 hit papers
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 33 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 (33 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 (33 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 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics 1976 2026 1992 2009 1998 2005 1998 1993 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
    1998 3.7k citations Josef Hofbauer, Karl Sigmund Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  2. Evolution of indirect reciprocity
    2005 1.8k citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund profile →
  3. Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring
    1998 1.8k citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund profile →
  4. A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
    1993 1.2k citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund profile →
  5. Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games
    2004 827 citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund profile →
  6. Volunteering as Red Queen Mechanism for Cooperation in Public Goods Games
    2002 817 citations Christoph Hauert, Josef Hofbauer et al. profile →
  7. Tit for tat in heterogeneous populations
    1992 675 citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund profile →
  8. Via Freedom to Coercion: The Emergence of Costly Punishment
    2007 544 citations Christoph Hauert, Arne Traulsen et al. profile →
  9. Ergodic Theory on Compact Spaces
    1976 536 citations Karl Sigmund et al. profile →
  10. Fairness Versus Reason in the Ultimatum Game
    2000 534 citations Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund et al. profile →
  11. Evolutionary game dynamics
    2003 531 citations Josef Hofbauer, Karl Sigmund profile →
  12. Social learning promotes institutions for governing the commons
    2010 433 citations Karl Sigmund, Arne Traulsen et al. profile →

Peers

Karl Sigmund
Attila Szolnoki Hungary
Christoph Hauert Canada
John Maynard Smith United Kingdom
Matjaž Perc Slovenia
Martin A. Nowak United States
Josef Hofbauer Austria
Arne Traulsen Germany
W D Hamilton United Kingdom
Yamir Moreno Spain
Drew Fudenberg United States
Attila Szolnoki Hungary
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.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sigmund, Karl. (2017). Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 22 indexed citations
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Hilbe, Christian, Arne Traulsen, & Karl Sigmund. (2015). Partners or rivals? Strategies for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Games and Economic Behavior. 92. 41–52. 89 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (2011). Evolutionary Game Dynamics. 23 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (2011). Evolutionary game dynamics : American Mathematical Society Short Course, January 4-5, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Brandt, Hannelore, Christoph Hauert, & Karl Sigmund. (2005). Punishing and abstaining for public goods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(2). 495–497. 153 indexed citations
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Dieckmann, Ulf, Karl Sigmund, Paul W. Ewald, et al.. (2002). Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 238 indexed citations
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Menger, Karl, Egbert Dierker, Karl Sigmund, & John W Dawson. (1998). Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums. 35 indexed citations
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Hahn, Hans Jürgen, Leopold Schmetterer, Karl Sigmund, & Karl R. Popper. (1995). Hans Hahn collected works. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl, Robert M. May, & Martin A. Nowak. (1995). La aritmética de la ayuda mutua. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 160(227). 42–48. 2 indexed citations
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Hofbauer, Josef & Karl Sigmund. (1990). Adaptive dynamics and evolutionary stability. Applied Mathematics Letters. 3(4). 75–79. 129 indexed citations
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Hofbauer, Josef & Karl Sigmund. (1989). On the stabilizing effect of predators and competitors on ecological communities. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 27(5). 537–548. 32 indexed citations
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Aubin, Jean‐Pierre & Karl Sigmund. (1988). Permanence and viability. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 22(2-3). 203–209. 2 indexed citations
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Hofbauer, Josef & Karl Sigmund. (1984). Evolutionstheorie und dynamische Systeme : mathematische Aspekte der Selektion. 9 indexed citations
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Schuster, Peter, et al.. (1980). Mass action kinetics of selfreplication in flow reactors. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 78(1). 88–112. 27 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (1974). On dynamical systems with the specification property. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 190(0). 285–299. 91 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (1974). On Dynamical Systems With the Specification Property. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 190. 285–285. 18 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (1972). On mixing measures for axiom A diffeomorphisms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 36(2). 497–497. 11 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (1972). On Mixing Measures for Axiom A Diffeomorphisms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 36(2). 497–497. 3 indexed citations
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Sigmund, Karl. (1969). Über Verteilungsmaße von Maßfolgen auf kompakten Gruppen. Compositio Mathematica. 21(3). 299–311. 1 indexed citations

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