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.
2021Foundations of complexity economics
2009The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves
1999Complexity and the Economy
1994Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality
1994Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
1989Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events
Countries citing papers authored by W. Brian Arthur
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Citations
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This network shows the impact of papers produced by W. Brian Arthur. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by W. Brian Arthur. The network helps show where W. Brian Arthur may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network
The 20 scholars most cited alongside W. Brian Arthur, linked wherever they have
co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they
share.
Border = papers with W. Brian ArthurLine = papers co-authored togetherW. Brian Arthur links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.
W. Brian Arthur is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Finance and Management Science and Operations Research, having authored 56 papers that have together received 12.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (15 papers), Economic theories and models (12 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (6 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (4 papers), Stochastic processes and financial applications (4 papers), Digital Platforms and Economics (4 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Strategy and Management (3.3k citations), Management Science and Operations Research (2.7k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (5.8k citations). W. Brian Arthur has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Austria and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Blake LeBaron, R. G. Palmer, Richard Palmer, John H. Holland, Y. Ermoliev, Y.M. Kaniovski, Thomas J. Espenshade, Geoffrey McNicoll, Stephen Broadberry and León F. Bouvier.
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