Robert Axelrod

31.8k citations
75 papers · 17.5k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 38

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Robert Axelrod

73 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

Structure of Decision: The Cognitive Maps of Political Elites 2015 · 343 citations
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Robert Axelrod
Comparison fields: 5 of 199
  • Safety Research 2.8k
  • Management Science and Operations Research 2.7k
  • Sociology and Political Science 8.4k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 2.1k
  • Development 487
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 202056
2 202062
3 202057
4 201956
5 201643
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Coping with Complexity: The Adaptive Value of Changing Utility
20163
7 201615
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Structure of Decision: The Cognitive Maps of Political Elites
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2015343
9
The Strategic Timing of Cyber Exploits
20132
10 2008118
11 200658
12 2004134
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Forthcoming in a special issue on agent-based modeling in the Japanese Journal for Management Information Systems Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences
20032
14 1993100
15 19905
16
An Evolutionary Approach to Norms
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1986771
17 198114
18 198115
19 197811
20 197726

About Robert Axelrod

Robert Axelrod is a scholar working on Safety Research, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Modeling and Simulation, having authored 75 papers that have together received 17.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (20 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers), Game Theory and Applications (8 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (8 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers), International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Safety Research (2.8k citations), Management Science and Operations Research (2.7k citations), Sociology and Political Science (8.4k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2.1k citations) and Development (487 citations). Robert Axelrod has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Richard P. Nielsen, Terry Connolly, Michael D. Cohen, Robert O. Keohane, W D Hamilton, Ross A. Hammond, Kenneth J. Pienta, David Axelrod, Scott Atran and D. Scott Bennett. Their work appears in journals such as American Political Science Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, World Politics and British Journal of Political Science.

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