Wolfram Barfuß

932 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 518 citations indexed

About

Wolfram Barfuß is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfram Barfuß has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 518 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Wolfram Barfuß's work include Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 papers). Wolfram Barfuß is often cited by papers focused on Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 papers). Wolfram Barfuß collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Wolfram Barfuß's co-authors include Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, Jobst Heitzig, Wolfgang Lucht, Steven J. Lade, Tomaso Aste, Tiziana Di Matteo, Paweł Romańczuk, Marc Wiedermann and Simon A. Levin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Wolfram Barfuß

24 papers receiving 509 citations

Hit Papers

Stewardship of global collective behavior 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

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. Stewardship of global collective behavior
    2021 164 citations Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Mark Alfano et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Wolfram Barfuß
Vítor V. Vasconcelos Netherlands
Andrew R. Tilman United States
Mario Gutiérrez-Roig Spain
Stefano Balietti United States
Katie Steele Australia
Riccardo Boero United States
Allen Lee United States
Fei Chen China
Alison Singer United States
Nikhil Garg United States
Vítor V. Vasconcelos Netherlands
Wolfram Barfuß
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Countries citing papers authored by Wolfram Barfuß

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolfram Barfuß

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfram Barfuß

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wolfram Barfuß. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wolfram Barfuß 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 Wolfram Barfuß. Wolfram Barfuß 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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McAvoy, Alex, Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, et al.. (2025). Unilateral incentive alignment in two-agent stochastic games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319927121–e2319927121. 2 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, Jessica C. Flack, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, et al.. (2025). Collective cooperative intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319948121–e2319948121. 1 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, A. Butz, Sara M. Constantino, et al.. (2025). Social norms and groups structure safe operating spaces in renewable resource use in a social–ecological multi-layer network model. Earth System Dynamics. 16(4). 1365–1390. 1 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, et al.. (2024). Moderate confirmation bias enhances decision-making in groups of reinforcement-learning agents. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(9). e1012404–e1012404. 6 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, et al.. (2023). Intrinsic fluctuations of reinforcement learning promote cooperation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1309–1309. 13 indexed citations
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Anderies, John M., Wolfram Barfuß, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2023). A modeling framework for World-Earth system resilience: exploring social inequality and Earth system tipping points. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 95001–95001. 11 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic Fluctuations of Reinforcement Learning Promote Cooperation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Mark Alfano, Wolfram Barfuß, et al.. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Sarah Cornell, et al.. (2021). Taxonomies for structuring models for World–Earth systems analysis of the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions and social–ecological feedback loops. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1115–1137. 24 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram. (2021). Dynamical systems as a level of cognitive analysis of multi-agent learning. Neural Computing and Applications. 34(3). 1653–1671. 11 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram. (2020). Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in the Infinite Memory Limit. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1768–1770. 4 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, Jonathan F. Donges, & Jürgen Kurths. (2019). Deterministic limit of temporal difference reinforcement learning for stochastic games. Physical review. E. 99(4). 43305–43305. 42 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, et al.. (2019). Deep reinforcement learning in World-Earth system models to discover sustainable management strategies. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 29(12). 123122–123122. 14 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Jobst Heitzig, Wolfram Barfuß, et al.. (2018). Earth system modelling with complex dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE World-Earth modeling framework. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 13 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Jobst Heitzig, et al.. (2018). Taxonomies for structuring models for World-Earth system analysisof the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions andsocial-ecological feedback loops. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 8 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, Jonathan F. Donges, Steven J. Lade, & Jürgen Kurths. (2018). When optimization for governing human-environment tipping elements is neither sustainable nor safe. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2354–2354. 33 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, Jonathan F. Donges, Marc Wiedermann, & Wolfgang Lucht. (2017). Sustainable use of renewable resources in a stylized social–ecological network model under heterogeneous resource distribution. Earth System Dynamics. 8(2). 255–264. 30 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F. & Wolfram Barfuß. (2017). From Math to Metaphors and Back Again: Social-Ecological Resilience from a Multi-Agent-Environment Perspective. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 26(1). 182–190. 7 indexed citations
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Barfuß, Wolfram, et al.. (2016). Parsimonious modeling with information filtering networks. Physical review. E. 94(6). 62306–62306. 47 indexed citations

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