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Duncan J. Watts

Duncan J. Watts publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Safety Research, on topics such as Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

World rank
#23,565
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#11,077
of 358,040
Works
41
Citations
642
Citations per work
15.7

What does Duncan J. Watts research?

Sociology and Political Science: 20.0%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12.5%Safety Research: 12.5%Political Science and International Relations: 12.5%other fields: 42.5%20%top field
Sociology and Political Science20.0%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics12.5%Safety Research12.5%Political Science and International Relations12.5%other fields42.5%

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 Science20% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics12% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research12% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  5. 5Communication8% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Duncan J. Watts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Polarization, Economic Experiments, Evolutionary Games, Social Media, Social Networks and Social Preferences.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism102 topics
  2. Cooperation102 topics
  3. Polarization62 topics
  4. Economic Experiments51 topic
  5. Evolutionary Games51 topic
  6. Social Media52 topics
  7. Social Networks51 topic
  8. Social Preferences51 topic
  9. Opinion Dynamics41 topic
  10. Social Influence41 topic
  11. Digital Divide31 topic
  12. Political Participation31 topic
  13. American founding21 topic
  14. Constitutional government21 topic
  15. Evolutionary Psychology21 topic
  16. Fake News21 topic
  17. Human Behavior21 topic
  18. Misinformation21 topic
  19. Neural Machine Translation11 topic
  20. Statistical Machine Translation11 topic

Where does Duncan J. Watts work?

Duncan J. Watts's main affiliation in the publication record is Microsoft (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Duncan J. Watts have?

Science Explorer counts 41 works and 642 citations for Duncan J. Watts, ranking #23,565 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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