Mark Alfano

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mark Alfano is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Alfano has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Philosophy, 37 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mark Alfano's work include Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (26 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (25 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers). Mark Alfano is often cited by papers focused on Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (26 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (25 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers). Mark Alfano collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and United States. Mark Alfano's co-authors include Marc Cheong, Colin Klein, J. Adam Carter, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Brian Robinson, Paul Stey, Neil Levy, Marco Meyer, Boudewijn de Bruin and Markus Christen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Alfano

89 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Stewardship of global collective behavior

2021 164 citations Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Mark Alfano et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
How should we change teaching and assessment in response to increasingly powerful generative Artificial Intelligence? Outcomes of the ChatGPT teacher survey

2024 81 citations Matt Bower, Jennifer W. M. Lai et al. Education and Information Technologies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Alfano Australia	20	555	373	351	233	181	95	1.3k
C. Thi Nguyen United States	15	550 1.0×	245 0.7×	342 1.0×	62 0.3×	110 0.6×	28	982
Gloria Origgi France	11	472 0.9×	186 0.5×	272 0.8×	189 0.8×	88 0.5×	42	1.1k
Lena Wahlberg Sweden	6	234 0.4×	187 0.5×	243 0.7×	102 0.4×	81 0.4×	19	959
Philip M. Fernbach United States	18	529 1.0×	209 0.6×	41 0.1×	183 0.8×	290 1.6×	41	1.3k
Bence Bagó France	15	664 1.2×	492 1.3×	37 0.1×	159 0.7×	192 1.1×	29	1.3k
Jeremy A. Frimer Canada	19	727 1.3×	395 1.1×	35 0.1×	577 2.5×	90 0.5×	35	1.3k
Christian von Scheve Germany	18	757 1.4×	244 0.7×	43 0.1×	451 1.9×	85 0.5×	66	1.6k
Matthew J. Lindberg United States	10	732 1.3×	211 0.6×	29 0.1×	271 1.2×	86 0.5×	14	1.3k
Nadia M. Brashier United States	10	1.3k 2.3×	446 1.2×	56 0.2×	161 0.7×	345 1.9×	16	1.7k
Aaron Ben‐Ze’ev Israel	14	411 0.7×	328 0.9×	130 0.4×	506 2.2×	64 0.4×	69	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Alfano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Alfano

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mark Alfano. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mark Alfano. The network helps show where Mark Alfano may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Alfano

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

All Works

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Kudina, Olya, et al.. (2025). The use of large language models as scaffolds for proleptic reasoning. 4(1).

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Ghasemi, Omid, Viktoria Cologna, Niels G. Mede, et al.. (2025). Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study. Environmental Research Letters. 20(6). 61002–61002. 1 indexed citations

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Stanley, Samantha K., Omid Ghasemi, Robert M. Ross, et al.. (2025). Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes: Evidence of future-oriented distress about environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. 23. 100415–100415.

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Stanley, Samantha K., Omid Ghasemi, John R. Kerr, et al.. (2025). Community attitudes towards advancing climate justice with climate aid. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 106. 102679–102679. 1 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark, et al.. (2024). Now you see me, now you don’t: an exploration of religious exnomination in DALL-E. Ethics and Information Technology. 26(2). 27–27. 3 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark, Aurélien Allard, Florián Cova, et al.. (2024). Experimental Philosophy for Beginners. 5 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark & Colin Klein. (2024). Trust in a Social and Digital World. Social Epistemology. 38(6). 669–673.

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Bower, Matt, et al.. (2024). How should we change teaching and assessment in response to increasingly powerful generative Artificial Intelligence? Outcomes of the ChatGPT teacher survey. Education and Information Technologies. 81 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alfano, Mark, Marc Cheong, & Oliver Scott Curry. (2024). Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies. Heliyon. 10(6). e25940–e25940. 7 indexed citations

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Cheong, Marc, et al.. (2023). Exploring intellectual humility through the lens of artificial intelligence: Top terms, features and a predictive model. Acta Psychologica. 238. 103979–103979. 3 indexed citations

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Cheong, Marc, et al.. (2022). Polarization and trust in the evolution of vaccine discourse on Twitter during COVID-19. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0277292–e0277292. 14 indexed citations

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Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Mark Alfano, Wolfram Barfuß, et al.. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 164 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meyer, Marco, Mark Alfano, & Boudewijn de Bruin. (2020). Epistemic Vice Predicts Acceptance of COVID-19 Misinformation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark. (2018). A Schooling in Contempt: Emotions and the pathos of distance. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 2 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Susan J., et al.. (2018). Micro-Targeting and ICT media in the Dutch Parliamentary system: Technological changes in Dutch Democracy. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark. (2017). Twenty-first century perspectivism. The role of emotions in scientific inquiry. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 7(7). 5 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark. (2015). Becoming less unreasonable: A reply to Sherman. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 4(7). 59. 7 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark. (2015). Placebo Effects and Informed Consent. The American Journal of Bioethics. 15(10). 3–12. 25 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark, et al.. (2014). Experimental Moral Philosophy. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 16 indexed citations

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Alfano, Mark. (2009). A Danger of Definition: Polar Predicates in Metaethics. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.

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