Timothy M. Waring

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Timothy M. Waring is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy M. Waring has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Safety Research and 9 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Timothy M. Waring's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (9 papers). Timothy M. Waring is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (9 papers). Timothy M. Waring collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. Timothy M. Waring's co-authors include Peter J. Richerson, Adrian V. Bell, Richard McElreath, Mark Lubell, Charles Efferson, Paul E. Smaldino, Clare E. Aslan, Jason P. Sexton, Rebecca S. Epanchin‐Niell and Matthew B. Hufford and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Timothy M. Waring

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

2014 354 citations Peter J. Richerson, Ryan Baldini et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy M. Waring United States	18	892	356	311	274	251	47	1.6k
William H. Durham United States	20	1.1k 1.3×	297 0.8×	390 1.3×	298 1.1×	78 0.3×	40	2.3k
Allen Johnson United States	20	712 0.8×	180 0.5×	254 0.8×	99 0.4×	164 0.7×	43	2.2k
Polly Wiessner United States	23	1.0k 1.1×	325 0.9×	549 1.8×	49 0.2×	258 1.0×	49	3.3k
Robert L. Carneiro United States	21	752 0.8×	263 0.7×	244 0.8×	157 0.6×	83 0.3×	75	2.5k
Thomas N. Headland United States	18	602 0.7×	123 0.3×	395 1.3×	166 0.6×	82 0.3×	39	2.1k
Michael Alvard United States	16	987 1.1×	96 0.3×	604 1.9×	250 0.9×	629 2.5×	24	2.3k
Charles Efferson Switzerland	21	1.3k 1.5×	416 1.2×	631 2.0×	44 0.2×	453 1.8×	52	2.1k
Adrian V. Bell United States	13	801 0.9×	249 0.7×	447 1.4×	35 0.1×	203 0.8×	28	1.4k
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Brazil	26	1.2k 1.3×	773 2.2×	326 1.0×	215 0.8×	24 0.1×	71	4.8k
James F. Eder United States	15	461 0.5×	97 0.3×	208 0.7×	127 0.5×	74 0.3×	39	1.1k

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Brooks, Jeremy, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Richard E. W. Berl, et al.. (2025). A transdisciplinary approach to growing an applied science of cultural evolution for a sustainable future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1940). 1 indexed citations

Waring, Timothy M., et al.. (2024). Paradoxes in the coevolution of contagions and institutions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2028). 20241117–20241117. 5 indexed citations

Kling, Matthew M., Gillian L. Galford, Timothy M. Waring, et al.. (2024). Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(42). e2402195121–e2402195121. 1 indexed citations

Waring, Timothy M., Zachary T. Wood, & Eörs Szathmáry. (2023). Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220259–20220259. 11 indexed citations

Currie, Thomas E., Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Maja Schlüter‬, et al.. (2023). Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220262–20220262. 16 indexed citations

Waring, Timothy M., Meredith T. Niles, Matthew M. Kling, et al.. (2023). Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1889). 20220397–20220397. 8 indexed citations

Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard, et al.. (2023). Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220251–20220251. 6 indexed citations

Hébert‐Dufresne, Laurent, Timothy M. Waring, Guillaume St-Onge, et al.. (2022). Source-sink behavioural dynamics limit institutional evolution in a group-structured society. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 211743–211743. 12 indexed citations

Kucharský, Šimon, et al.. (2021). Limited Scope for Group Coordination in Stylistic Variations of Kolam Art. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 742577–742577. 2 indexed citations

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Waring, Timothy M., et al.. (2021). Entropy trade-offs in artistic design: A case study of Tamilkolam. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3. e23–e23. 8 indexed citations

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Tam, Jordan, Timothy M. Waring, Stefan Gelcich, Kai M. A. Chan, & Terre Satterfield. (2021). Measuring behavioral social learning in a conservation context: Chilean fishing communities. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(1). 12 indexed citations

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Yu, David J., Heejun Chang, Taylor Davis, et al.. (2020). Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society. 25(4). 24 indexed citations

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Waring, Timothy M., et al.. (2019). Co-operatives exhibit greater behavioral cooperation than comparable businesses: Experimental evidence. 7(2). 100092–100092. 12 indexed citations

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Waring, Timothy M., et al.. (2017). Cultural evolution and US agricultural institutions: a historical case study of Maine’s blueberry industry. Sustainability Science. 13(1). 49–58. 8 indexed citations

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Waring, Timothy M. & James Acheson. (2017). Evidence of cultural group selection in territorial lobstering in Maine. Sustainability Science. 13(1). 21–34. 26 indexed citations

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Kline, Michelle A., Timothy M. Waring, & Jonathan Salerno. (2017). Designing cultural multilevel selection research for sustainability science. Sustainability Science. 13(1). 9–19. 25 indexed citations

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Richerson, Peter J., Ryan Baldini, Adrian V. Bell, et al.. (2014). Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e30–e30. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waring, Timothy M.. (2012). Wicked Tools: The Value of Scientific Models for Solving Maine’s Wicked Problems. Maine policy review. 21(1). 4 indexed citations

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Waring, Timothy M.. (2011). Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu. Ecology and Society. 16(4). 8 indexed citations

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McElreath, Richard, Adrian V. Bell, Charles Efferson, et al.. (2008). Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1509). 3515–3528. 185 indexed citations

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