Wander Jager

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Wander Jager is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Management Science and Operations Research and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wander Jager has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 24 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Wander Jager's work include Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (29 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting (13 papers). Wander Jager is often cited by papers focused on Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (29 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting (13 papers). Wander Jager collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Wander Jager's co-authors include Marco A. Janssen, J. Bethlem, Sebastiano A. Delre, Peter S. H. Leeflang, Tammo H.A. Bijmolt, Nanda Wijermans, Gabriella Vindigni, Charles Vlek, Gunnar Dreßler and Karin Frank and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Research, Energy Policy and Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Wander Jager

86 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems

2016 311 citations Maja Schlüter‬, Gunnar Dreßler et al. Ecological Economics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wander Jager Netherlands	30	863	765	624	464	403	89	3.3k
Partha Dasgupta United States	35	335 0.4×	196 0.3×	223 0.4×	1.6k 3.5×	63 0.2×	130	5.9k
Douglas J. Miller United States	23	188 0.2×	388 0.5×	140 0.2×	1.6k 3.5×	195 0.5×	79	4.2k
Feng Yu China	23	347 0.4×	85 0.1×	71 0.1×	406 0.9×	133 0.3×	152	2.7k
Erjia Yan United States	29	346 0.4×	188 0.2×	734 1.2×	218 0.5×	88 0.2×	84	3.5k
James P. LeSage United States	33	893 1.0×	272 0.4×	34 0.1×	5.4k 11.7×	156 0.4×	129	7.2k
Zhibin Lin China	44	2.0k 2.3×	123 0.2×	27 0.0×	377 0.8×	1.2k 3.1×	157	5.8k
Harro van Lente Netherlands	27	1.3k 1.5×	335 0.4×	23 0.0×	471 1.0×	175 0.4×	83	4.3k
Ye Li China	23	817 0.9×	415 0.5×	30 0.0×	577 1.2×	249 0.6×	110	3.9k
Olle Persson Sweden	25	393 0.5×	142 0.2×	426 0.7×	505 1.1×	85 0.2×	82	3.9k
Manuel Fischer Switzerland	26	500 0.6×	127 0.2×	48 0.1×	204 0.4×	25 0.1×	91	2.2k

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Jager, Wander, et al.. (2025). HUMAT: An Integrated Framework for Modelling Individual Motivations, Social Exchange and Network Dynamics. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 28(1). 1 indexed citations

Dang, Yanzhong, et al.. (2025). Autonomy or control? An agent-based study of self-organising versus centralised task allocation. Journal of Computational Social Science. 8(2). 1 indexed citations

Jager, Wander, et al.. (2024). Simulating the Role of Norms in Processes of Social Innovation: Three Case Studies. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 27(1). 3 indexed citations

Campos, Inês, Doris Fuchs, Petteri Repo, et al.. (2024). What roles can democracy labs play in co-creating democratic innovations for sustainability?. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 6(4). 367–380. 2 indexed citations

Flache, Andreas, et al.. (2024). How culture can affect opinion dynamics: the case of vaccination. Journal of Computational Social Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Hsiao‐Hsuan, William E. Grant, Fateme Zare, et al.. (2023). Scale decisions and good practices in socio-environmental systems modelling: guidance and documentation during problem scoping and model formulation. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 5. 18563–18563. 10 indexed citations

Li, Teng & Wander Jager. (2023). How Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias and Fear May Drive Societal Polarisation: An Opinion Dynamics Simulation of the Case of COVID-19 Vaccination. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 26(4). 7 indexed citations

Jager, Wander. (2021). Using agent-based modelling to explore behavioural dynamics affecting our climate. Current Opinion in Psychology. 42. 133–139. 22 indexed citations

Schwarz, Nina, Gunnar Dreßler, Karin Frank, et al.. (2020). Formalising theories of human decision-making for agent-based modelling of social-ecological systems: practical lessons learned and ways forward. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2. 16340–16340. 21 indexed citations

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Jager, Wander, et al.. (2015). An Agent-Based Dialogical Model with Fuzzy Attitudes. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 18(3). 5 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Arvid O. I., et al.. (2007). SOCIAL SIMULATION OF STOCK MARKETS: TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 10(2). 7–7. 33 indexed citations

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Wijermans, Nanda, et al.. (2006). Beyond the brain: Embodied, situated and distributed cognition. 4 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Arvid O. I., et al.. (2006). Combining Empirical Data with Multi Agent Social Simulation: Investigating Micro-Macro Links in Stock Markets. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Arvid O. I. & Wander Jager. (2004). The effect of different needs, decisionmaking processes and networkstructures on investor behavior and stock market dynamics : a simulation approach. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 11(2). 49–65. 3 indexed citations

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Jager, Wander, et al.. (2002). How uncertainty stimulates over-harvesting in a resource dilemma. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 22(3). 247–263. 2 indexed citations

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Popping, Roel, et al.. (2001). Clustering and fighting in two-party crowds : Simulating the approach-avoidance conflict. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 4(3). 1–7. 44 indexed citations

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Janssen, Marco A. & Wander Jager. (2000). PREFACE. Ecological Economics. 35(3). 307–310. 30 indexed citations

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Janssen, Marco A. & Wander Jager. (1999). An integrated approach to simulating behavioural processes: A case study of the lock-in of consumption. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 2(2). 1–2. 46 indexed citations

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Steg, Linda, et al.. (1997). Modellen en strategieën voor gedragsverandering ter vermindering van collectieve risico's. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 4. 174–191. 3 indexed citations

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Jager, Wander, A. E. F. H. Meijer, & J.M.B.V. de Jong. (1968). A dystrophy-like myopathy in thyroidectomized rabbits. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 6(2). 301–314. 9 indexed citations

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