Stuart Kauffman

33.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
249 papers, 18.9k citations indexed

About

Stuart Kauffman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart Kauffman has authored 249 papers receiving a total of 18.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 46 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Stuart Kauffman's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (79 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (51 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers). Stuart Kauffman is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (79 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (51 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers). Stuart Kauffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Stuart Kauffman's co-authors include Simon A. Levin, Leon Glass, Roger F. Malina, Ilya Shmulevich, Edward D. Weinberger, Sönke Johnsen, Sui Huang, Björn Samuelsson, Carsten Peterson and Carl Troein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stuart Kauffman

240 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

Metabolic stability and epigenesis in randomly constructe... 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 1993 1985 1987 1973 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Metabolic stability and epigenesis in randomly constructed genetic nets
    1969 3.1k citations Stuart Kauffman profile →
  2. The Origins of Order
    1993 1.8k citations Stuart Kauffman profile →
  3. Developmental Constraints and Evolution: A Perspective from the Mountain Lake Conference on Development and Evolution
    1985 1.0k citations Stuart Kauffman et al. profile →
  4. Towards a general theory of adaptive walks on rugged landscapes
    1987 850 citations Stuart Kauffman et al. profile →
  5. The logical analysis of continuous, non-linear biochemical control networks
    1973 635 citations Stuart Kauffman et al. profile →
  6. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
    1996 611 citations Stuart Kauffman et al. profile →
  7. Autocatalytic sets of proteins
    1986 512 citations Stuart Kauffman profile →
  8. Investigations
    2000 459 citations Stuart Kauffman profile →
  9. Homeostasis and Differentiation in Random Genetic Control Networks
    1969 428 citations Stuart Kauffman profile →
  10. Antichaos and Adaptation
    1991 264 citations Stuart Kauffman profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stuart Kauffman United States 59 10.4k 3.6k 2.5k 2.1k 1.9k 249 18.9k
Ricard V. Solé Spain 63 3.8k 0.4× 2.5k 0.7× 576 0.2× 1.9k 0.9× 619 0.3× 303 15.1k
Richard Schlegel United States 64 6.0k 0.6× 3.6k 1.0× 535 0.2× 4.9k 2.3× 442 0.2× 230 36.8k
Peter Schuster Austria 49 7.2k 0.7× 4.4k 1.2× 2.6k 1.0× 2.4k 1.1× 272 0.1× 280 14.3k
Ron Milo Israel 71 18.7k 1.8× 2.9k 0.8× 302 0.1× 729 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 136 31.0k
Uri Alon Israel 74 24.5k 2.4× 6.6k 1.8× 244 0.1× 857 0.4× 1.8k 0.9× 232 35.5k
Stephen Jay Gould United States 83 4.0k 0.4× 6.2k 1.7× 1.1k 0.5× 6.0k 2.8× 238 0.1× 540 44.7k
Robert E. Kass United States 50 1.8k 0.2× 2.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 523 0.2× 443 0.2× 158 23.8k
Christoph Adami United States 42 2.5k 0.2× 2.6k 0.7× 564 0.2× 1.6k 0.7× 334 0.2× 150 7.2k
Kunihiko Kaneko Japan 55 3.6k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 570 0.2× 667 0.3× 634 0.3× 342 11.5k
Ilya Prigogine Belgium 47 2.0k 0.2× 459 0.1× 1.8k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 297 23.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart Kauffman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart Kauffman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Koppl, Roger, et al.. (2024). Creative evolution in economics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 34(2). 489–514. 7 indexed citations
2.
Emmert‐Streib, Frank, et al.. (2024). Complexity data science: A spin-off from digital twins. PNAS Nexus. 3(11). pgae456–pgae456. 4 indexed citations
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Koppl, Roger, et al.. (2023). Creative Evolution in Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Succi, Sauro, et al.. (2023). From quantum foam to graviton condensation: The Zel'dovich route. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 143(3). 39002–39002. 2 indexed citations
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Koppl, Roger, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Brian D. Fath, et al.. (2023). Explaining Technology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Stuart. (2022). A Testable Theory for the Emergence of the Classical World. MDPI (MDPI AG). 8 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, et al.. (2022). First post-Minkowskian approach to turbulent gravity. Physical review. D. 106(10).
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Kauffman, Stuart & Dean Radin. (2022). Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence. Biosystems. 223. 104820–104820. 19 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Stuart. (2020). A New View of Reality: Mind and Actualization of Quantum Potentia. 21(3). 475–487. 1 indexed citations
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Nghe, Philippe, Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman, et al.. (2015). Prebiotic network evolution: six key parameters. Molecular BioSystems. 11(12). 3206–3217. 80 indexed citations
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Felin, Teppo, et al.. (2015). Factor Markets, Actors and Affordances. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Clemens, Walter C. & Stuart Kauffman. (2013). Complexity Science and World Affairs. SUNY Press eBooks.
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Graudenzi, Alex, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, et al.. (2009). Timing of molecular processes in a synchronous Boolean model of genetic regulatory network. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 87–97. 2 indexed citations
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Damiani, C., Alex Graudenzi, Marco Villani, et al.. (2009). On the fate of perturbations in critical random Boolean networks. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 85–85. 2 indexed citations
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Andrecut, M., Sui Huang, & Stuart Kauffman. (2008). Heuristic Approach to Sparse Approximation of Gene Regulatory Networks. Journal of Computational Biology. 15(9). 1173–1186. 11 indexed citations
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Charlebois, Daniel A., André S. Ribeiro, Antti Lehmussola, et al.. (2007). Effects of microarray noise on inference efficiency of a stochastic model of gene networks. 4(2). 15–21. 2 indexed citations
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Shmulevich, Ilya, Stuart Kauffman, & Maximino Aldana. (2005). Eukaryotic cells are dynamically ordered or critical but not chaotic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(38). 13439–13444. 150 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Stuart, et al.. (2001). Rational evolutionary design: The theory of in vitro protein evolution. Advances in protein chemistry. 55. 79–160. 95 indexed citations
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Hut, Piet, Brian Goodwin, & Stuart Kauffman. (2000). Complexity and functionality: a search for the where, the when, and the how. 259–268. 1 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Stuart. (1996). Autonomous agents, self-constructing biospheres, and science. Complexity. 2(2). 16–17. 2 indexed citations

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