Peter Turchin

13.7k total citations
114 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Turchin is a scholar working on Ecology, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Turchin has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Peter Turchin's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (35 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (28 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (20 papers). Peter Turchin is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (35 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (28 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (20 papers). Peter Turchin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Peter Turchin's co-authors include Stephen P. Ellner, Ilkka Hanski, Andrew Taylor, Heikki Henttonen, Erkki Korpimäki, Lauri Oksanen, Sergey Gavrilets, Alan Berryman, Peter Kareiva and William T. Thoeny and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Turchin

109 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Turchin United States 45 4.1k 2.3k 1.8k 1.5k 1.5k 114 8.0k
Brian Dennis United States 40 3.4k 0.8× 2.4k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.2× 86 7.1k
Veijo Kaitala Finland 45 3.4k 0.8× 2.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 215 6.7k
Philip A. Stephens United Kingdom 37 4.0k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 2.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 114 7.9k
Marc Mangel United States 47 3.0k 0.7× 2.9k 1.3× 2.7k 1.5× 2.5k 1.6× 1.4k 0.9× 164 8.4k
Shripad Tuljapurkar United States 48 2.8k 0.7× 2.2k 1.0× 2.4k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 171 8.3k
Marc Mangel United States 49 5.3k 1.3× 3.3k 1.5× 2.3k 1.3× 5.3k 3.5× 1.2k 0.8× 178 11.2k
Esa Ranta Finland 47 4.0k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 3.1k 1.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 185 7.0k
Daniel R. Brooks Canada 51 5.7k 1.4× 2.2k 1.0× 3.0k 1.7× 1.3k 0.9× 2.9k 1.9× 297 11.8k
Michael B. Bonsall United Kingdom 42 1.9k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 734 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 238 7.1k
Franz J. Weissing Netherlands 51 3.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 5.1k 2.8× 1.4k 0.9× 3.3k 2.2× 174 11.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Turchin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Turchin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hoyer, Daniel, Pieter François, Gary M. Feinman, et al.. (2025). All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past. Social Science History. 1–33.
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Kondor, Dániel, et al.. (2024). Landscape of fear: indirect effects of conflict can account for large-scale population declines in non-state societies. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(217). 20240210–20240210. 1 indexed citations
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Hoyer, Daniel, Jenny Reddish, Robert Howard, et al.. (2023). Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1889). 20220402–20220402. 40 indexed citations
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Hoyer, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Structural-demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) collapse in China. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0289748–e0289748. 8 indexed citations
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Whitehouse, Harvey, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, et al.. (2022). Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”. Religion Brain & Behavior. 13(2). 124–166. 12 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter, Harvey Whitehouse, Sergey Gavrilets, et al.. (2022). Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses. Science Advances. 8(25). eabn3517–eabn3517. 23 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter, Thomas E. Currie, Christina Collins, et al.. (2021). An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank. The Holocene. 31(6). 1055–1065. 6 indexed citations
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Whitehouse, Harvey, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, et al.. (2021). Testing the Big Gods Hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 5 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, et al.. (2021). Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258161–e0258161. 13 indexed citations
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Whitehouse, Harvey, Peter Turchin, Pieter François, et al.. (2020). New Era in the Study of Global History Is Born but It Needs to Be Nurtured. 5(1-2). 142–158. 4 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter, Nina Witoszek, Stefan Thurner, et al.. (2019). A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience. 9(2). 4 indexed citations
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Mullins, Daniel, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, et al.. (2018). A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence. American Sociological Review. 83(3). 596–626. 21 indexed citations
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François, Pieter, J. G. Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, et al.. (2016). A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview. Digital humanities quarterly. 10(4). 14 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter. (2012). Failed States and Nation-Building: A Cultural Evolutionary Perspective. 3(1). 2 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter. (2012). Dynamics of political instability in the United States, 1780–2010. Journal of Peace Research. 49(4). 577–591. 40 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter & Sergey Gavrilets. (2009). Evolution of complex hierarchical societies. Social Evolution & History. 8(2). 67 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter. (2008). Arise 'cliodynamics'. Nature. 454(7200). 34–35. 48 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter & Andrey Korotayev. (2006). Population Dynamics and Internal Warfare: A Reconsideration *. Social Evolution & History. 5(2). 44 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter, et al.. (1993). Southern Pine Beetle Infestation Development: Interaction Between Pine and Hardwood Basal Areas. Forest Science. 39(2). 201–210. 44 indexed citations
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Turchin, Peter. (1990). Rarity of density dependence or population regulation with lags?. Nature. 344(6267). 660–663. 346 indexed citations

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