Lee Altenberg

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Lee Altenberg is a scholar working on Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Altenberg has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Lee Altenberg's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (8 papers). Lee Altenberg is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (8 papers). Lee Altenberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Israel. Lee Altenberg's co-authors include Günter P. Wagner, Marcus W. Feldman, Laurence D. Mueller, Uri Liberman, Kent E. Holsinger, Susanna C. Manrubia, Jacobo Aguirre, Pablo Catalán, Yoav Ram and Sebastian E. Ahnert and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Lee Altenberg

25 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

PERSPECTIVE: COMPLEX ADAPTATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY

1996 1.2k citations Günter P. Wagner, Lee Altenberg Evolution profile →
Perspective: Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability

1996 543 citations Günter P. Wagner, Lee Altenberg Evolution profile →

Peers

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Mihaela Pavličev United States

Sean H. Rice United States

Wallace Arthur United Kingdom

Richard M. Burian United States

Daniel W. McShea United States

B. C. Goodwin United Kingdom

Andrew Meade United Kingdom

George von Dassow United States

Ian Dworkin United States

George F. Estabrook United States

Mihaela Pavličev United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Lee Altenberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lee Altenberg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Altenberg

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

All Works

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Manrubia, Susanna C., José A. Cuesta, Jacobo Aguirre, et al.. (2021). From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics. Physics of Life Reviews. 38. 55–106. 50 indexed citations

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Still, Susanne, et al.. (2019). Physical limitations of work extraction from temporal correlations. Physical review. E. 99(4). 42115–42115. 6 indexed citations

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Liberman, Uri, Yoav Ram, Lee Altenberg, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2019). The evolution of frequency-dependent cultural transmission. Theoretical Population Biology. 132. 69–81. 1 indexed citations

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Hordijk, Wim & Lee Altenberg. (2019). Developmental structuring of phenotypic variation: A case study with a cellular automata model of ontogeny. Evolution & Development. 22(1-2). 20–34. 3 indexed citations

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Ram, Yoav, Lee Altenberg, Uri Liberman, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2018). Generation of variation and a modified mean fitness principle: Necessity is the mother of genetic invention. Theoretical Population Biology. 123. 1–8. 9 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee, Uri Liberman, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2017). Unified reduction principle for the evolution of mutation, migration, and recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(12). E2392–E2400. 34 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2014). Evolvability and robustness in artificial evolving systems: three perturbations. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 15(3). 275–280. 2 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2014). Beyond Capitalism: Leland Stanford’s Forgotten Vision.

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Altenberg, Lee. (2013). A sharpened condition for strict log-convexity of the spectral radius via the bipartite graph. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 438(9). 3702–3718. 4 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2012). Resolvent positive linear operators exhibit the reduction phenomenon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10). 3705–3710. 39 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2010). Proof of the Feldman–Karlin conjecture on the maximum number of equilibria in an evolutionary system. Theoretical Population Biology. 77(4). 263–269. 7 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2010). An Evolutionary Reduction Principle for Mutation Rates at Multiple Loci. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 73(6). 1227–1270. 8 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2009). The Evolutionary Reduction Principle for Linear Variation in Genetic Transmission. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 71(5). 1264–1284. 8 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2005). Modularity in Evolution: Some Low-Level Questions. The MIT Press eBooks. 99–128. 25 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (2005). Evolvability Suppression to Stabilize Far-Sighted Adaptations. Artificial Life. 11(4). 427–443. 12 indexed citations

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Wagner, Günter P. & Lee Altenberg. (1996). Perspective: Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability. Evolution. 50(3). 967–967. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wagner, Günter P. & Lee Altenberg. (1996). PERSPECTIVE: COMPLEX ADAPTATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY. Evolution. 50(3). 967–976. 1192 indexed citations breakdown →

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Altenberg, Lee. (1994). EMERGENT PHENOMENA IN GENETIC PROGRAMMING. 38 indexed citations

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Altenberg, Lee. (1994). Evolving better representations through selective genome growth. 182–187 vol.1. 65 indexed citations

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Holsinger, Kent E., Marcus W. Feldman, & Lee Altenberg. (1986). SELECTION FOR INCREASED MUTATION RATES WITH FERTILITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MATINGS. Genetics. 112(4). 909–922. 18 indexed citations

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