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Brian Skyrms

Brian Skyrms publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Game Theory and Applications, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

World rank
#36,717
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,036
of 358,040
Works
65
Citations
413
Citations per work
6.4

What does Brian Skyrms research?

Sociology and Political Science: 19.0%Management Science and Operations Research: 15.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 10.3%Philosophy: 10.3%other fields: 44.9%19%top field
Sociology and Political Science19.0%Management Science and Operations Research15.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10.3%Philosophy10.3%other fields44.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research16% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy10% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Skyrms's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Networks, Altruism, Cooperation, Game Theory, Network Formation, Evolutionary Games, Indirect Reciprocity and Perception.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Networks172 topics
  2. Altruism112 topics
  3. Cooperation112 topics
  4. Game Theory91 topic
  5. Network Formation91 topic
  6. Evolutionary Games81 topic
  7. Indirect Reciprocity81 topic
  8. Perception52 topics
  9. Truth52 topics
  10. Opinion Dynamics41 topic
  11. Social Influence41 topic
  12. Belief31 topic
  13. Economic Experiments31 topic
  14. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  15. Knowledge31 topic
  16. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  17. Social Preferences31 topic
  18. Algorithmic Information Theory21 topic
  19. Computability21 topic
  20. Consciousness21 topic
  21. Phenomenal Experience21 topic

Where does Brian Skyrms work?

Brian Skyrms's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Irvine, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian Skyrms have?

Science Explorer counts 65 works and 413 citations for Brian Skyrms, ranking #36,717 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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