Tim Johnson

1.3k total citations
40 papers, 793 citations indexed

About

Tim Johnson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Johnson has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 793 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Safety Research and 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Tim Johnson's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (15 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Tim Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (15 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Tim Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Tim Johnson's co-authors include Oleg Smirnov, Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler, Richard McElreath, Jowei Chen, Adam Bonica, Nick Obradovich, Dalton Conley, Gregory B. Lewis and Robert Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tim Johnson

37 papers receiving 753 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tim Johnson United States 11 414 323 195 114 108 40 793
Kevin Denny Ireland 14 224 0.5× 52 0.2× 109 0.6× 62 0.5× 69 0.6× 47 770
Justin Friesen Canada 12 719 1.7× 87 0.3× 191 1.0× 102 0.9× 418 3.9× 17 1.2k
Philipp Lergetporer Germany 16 311 0.8× 206 0.6× 54 0.3× 47 0.4× 81 0.8× 82 888
Sven Oskarsson Sweden 16 546 1.3× 80 0.2× 45 0.2× 67 0.6× 112 1.0× 51 844
Ryan Jewell United States 3 546 1.3× 53 0.2× 116 0.6× 68 0.6× 171 1.6× 3 944
Rachel Barkan Israel 16 384 0.9× 325 1.0× 397 2.0× 50 0.4× 224 2.1× 22 1.0k
Piotr Świstak United States 6 299 0.7× 181 0.6× 49 0.3× 42 0.4× 37 0.3× 19 465
Michael Kimmel United States 5 445 1.1× 291 0.9× 59 0.3× 85 0.7× 172 1.6× 10 658
Nicholas Winter United States 10 641 1.5× 50 0.2× 69 0.4× 48 0.4× 129 1.2× 16 1.1k
Georgina Randsley de Moura United Kingdom 17 541 1.3× 57 0.2× 154 0.8× 48 0.4× 330 3.1× 41 916

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Johnson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Johnson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Johnson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johnson, Tim & Nick Obradovich. (2025). Testing for completions that simulate altruism in early language models. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(9). 1861–1870.
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Johnson, Tim. (2024). Empirically testing a relationship between cooperation and the prime numbers. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 231425–231425. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim & Nick Obradovich. (2023). Evidence of Behavior Consistent with Self-Interest and Altruism in An Artificially Intelligent Agent. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Mao, Connie X., et al.. (2022). Evidence supporting a cultural evolutionary theory of prosocial religions in contemporary workplace safety data. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5239–5239. 2 indexed citations
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Conley, Dalton & Tim Johnson. (2021). Past is future for the era of COVID-19 research in the social sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, et al.. (2020). Optical design using image distortion for orthorectification. Applied Optics. 59(22). G175–G175. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim & Dalton Conley. (2019). Civilian public sector employment as a long-run outcome of military conscription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(43). 21456–21462. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim & Oleg Smirnov. (2018). Inequality as information: Wealth homophily facilitates the evolution of cooperation. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 11605–11605. 14 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, et al.. (2017). Nationalism and Social Sanctioning Across Ethnic Lines: Experimental Evidence from the Kenya–Tanzania Border. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 4(1). 1–20. 5 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Christopher T. Dawes, Matt McGue, & William G. Iacono. (2017). Numbers Assigned in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries Influence the Military Service Decisions of Children Born to Draft-Eligible Men. Armed Forces & Society. 44(2). 347–367. 7 indexed citations
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Bonica, Adam, Jowei Chen, & Tim Johnson. (2015). Senate Gate-Keeping, Presidential Staffing of “Inferior Offices,” and the Ideological Composition of Appointments to the Public Bureaucracy. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 10(1). 5–40. 34 indexed citations
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Chen, Jowei & Tim Johnson. (2014). Federal employee unionization and presidential control of the bureaucracy: Estimating and explaining ideological change in executive agencies. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 27(1). 151–174. 44 indexed citations
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Bonica, Adam, Jowei Chen, & Tim Johnson. (2012). Estimating Bureaucratic Ideal Points from Campaign Contributions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Mikhail Myagkov, & John Orbell. (2012). Distinctive Preferences Toward Risk in the Substantive Domain of Sociality*. Political Psychology. 34(1). 1–22. 5 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler, Richard McElreath, & Oleg Smirnov. (2009). The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment. Economics Letters. 102(3). 192–194. 60 indexed citations
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Dawes, Christopher T., James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, & Oleg Smirnov. (2007). Egalitarian motives in humans. Nature. 446(7137). 794–796. 422 indexed citations
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Dawes, Christopher T., James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, & Oleg Smirnov. (2007). Egalitarian Motives in Humans. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Mikhail Myagkov, & John Orbell. (2004). Sociality as a defensive response to the threat of loss. Politics and the Life Sciences. 23(2). 13–19. 1 indexed citations
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Buffington, James, et al.. (2004). Validation and Verification of Intelligent and Adaptive Control Systems. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. 6 indexed citations
20.
Johnson, Tim. (1999). Perspectives on Strategy: From the Boston Consulting Group. Quality Management Journal. 6(4). 79–80. 16 indexed citations

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