Stefan Thurner

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
197 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Stefan Thurner is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Thurner has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 71 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Stefan Thurner's work include Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (56 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (50 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (37 papers). Stefan Thurner is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (56 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (50 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (37 papers). Stefan Thurner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and United Kingdom. Stefan Thurner's co-authors include Rudolf Hanel, Peter Klimek, Michael Szell, Renaud Lambiotte, Sebastian Poledna, Michael Boss, Helmut Elsinger, Martin Summer, Bosiljka Tadić and Elma Dervić and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Thurner

186 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions

2020 897 citations Nils Haug, Lukas Geyrhofer et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks in an online world

2010 608 citations Michael Szell, Stefan Thurner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Network topology of the interbank market

2004 534 citations Stefan Thurner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Thurner Austria	41	2.4k	2.3k	951	866	759	197	7.0k
Boris Podobnik Croatia	34	4.7k 2.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 2.2×	613 0.7×	146 0.2×	112	6.6k
Jukka‐Pekka Onnela United States	39	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	345 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	149 0.2×	176	8.1k
Kimmo Kaski Finland	55	1.8k 0.8×	4.5k 2.0×	480 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	194 0.3×	375	12.2k
János Kertész Hungary	52	2.3k 1.0×	5.7k 2.5×	767 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	163 0.2×	237	12.1k
Frank Schweitzer Switzerland	44	1.1k 0.5×	2.9k 1.3×	270 0.3×	1.5k 1.7×	138 0.2×	204	7.3k
Hideki Takayasu Japan	35	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	627 0.7×	337 0.4×	82 0.1×	203	4.6k
Guido Caldarelli Italy	59	3.8k 1.6×	5.2k 2.3×	1.8k 1.9×	3.3k 3.9×	116 0.2×	229	13.3k
Neil F. Johnson United States	42	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	319 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	140 0.2×	238	7.2k
Mark S. Handcock United States	44	1.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.6×	121 0.1×	2.8k 3.2×	255 0.3×	140	11.6k
Misako Takayasu Japan	30	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	411 0.4×	455 0.5×	78 0.1×	182	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Thurner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Thurner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Thurner

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All Works

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Dervić, Elma, et al.. (2025). Comorbidity Networks From Population-Wide Health Data: Aggregated Data of 8.9M Hospital Patients (1997–2014). Scientific Data. 12(1). 215–215. 1 indexed citations

Reisch, Tobias, et al.. (2024). Firm-level supply chains to minimize unemployment and economic losses in rapid decarbonization scenarios. Nature Sustainability. 7(5). 581–589. 5 indexed citations

Klimek, Peter, et al.. (2023). Shock propagation from the Russia–Ukraine conflict on international multilayer food production network determines global food availability. Nature Food. 4(6). 508–517. 46 indexed citations

Bianconi, Ginestra, Àlex Arenas, Jacob Biamonte, et al.. (2023). Complex systems in the spotlight: next steps after the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics. Journal of Physics Complexity. 4(1). 10201–10201. 48 indexed citations

Bicher, Martin, Martin Zuba, Florian Bachner, et al.. (2022). Supporting COVID-19 policy-making with a predictive epidemiological multi-model warning system. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 157–157. 8 indexed citations

Lasser, Jana, Elma Dervić, Johannes Sorger, et al.. (2022). Stress-testing the resilience of the Austrian healthcare system using agent-based simulation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4259–4259. 5 indexed citations

Grilz, Ella, Florian Posch, Stephan Nopp, et al.. (2021). Relative risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism in persons with cancer vs. persons without cancer—a nationwide analysis. European Heart Journal. 42(23). 2299–2307. 83 indexed citations

Strauss, Markus J., Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Stefan Thurner, Alexandra Kautzky‐Willer, & Peter Klimek. (2021). Data-driven identification of complex disease phenotypes. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(180). 20201040–20201040. 7 indexed citations

Kondor, Imre, et al.. (2020). The effect of social balance on social fragmentation. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 42 indexed citations

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Haug, Nils, Lukas Geyrhofer, Alessandro Londei, et al.. (2020). Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(12). 1303–1312. 897 indexed citations breakdown →

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Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, Ellenor Mittendorfer‐Rutz, Stefan Thurner, Gottfried Endel, & Peter Klimek. (2019). Healthcare utilization, psychiatric medication and risk of rehospitalization in suicide-attempting patients with common mental disorders. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 54(4). 409–422. 5 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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Thurner, Stefan, et al.. (2018). Scaling. Oxford University Press eBooks.

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Lansing, J. Stephen, Elsa G. Guillot, Stefan Thurner, et al.. (2017). Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(49). 12910–12915. 17 indexed citations

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Corominas‐Murtra, Bernat, et al.. (2017). How noise determines the statistics of simple path dependent systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Szell, Michael & Stefan Thurner. (2016). Measuring social dynamics in a massive multiplayer online game. 61 indexed citations

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Corominas‐Murtra, Bernat, Rudolf Hanel, & Stefan Thurner. (2014). Understanding Zipf's law with playing dice: history-dependent stochastic processes with collapsing sample-space have power-law rank distributions. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Szell, Michael & Stefan Thurner. (2013). How women organize social networks different from men. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1214–1214. 91 indexed citations

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Thurner, Stefan. (2008). Nonextensive statisticalmechanics and complexscale-free networks. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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Thurner, Stefan, et al.. (2007). The Eigenvalue Spectrum of Lagged Correlation Matrices. Acta Physica Polonica B. 38(13). 4111. 3 indexed citations

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