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Researcher · Brookings Institution · United States

Joshua M. Epstein

Joshua M. Epstein publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9283-3111 OpenAlex
World rank
#117,766
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#44,878
of 1,627,098
Works
162
Citations
12k
Citations per work
77.1
h-index
39
i10-index 70Top 1% in Sociology and Political Science
Joshua M. Epstein

What does Joshua M. Epstein research?

Joshua M. Epstein's work is mostly in Social Sciences (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Everything else: 80 works · 49.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 59 works · 36.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 21.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 24 works · 14.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 7.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 17 works · 10.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 works · 10.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 4.5% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 works · 4.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 14.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 8.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 14 works · 8.4% of their workMathematics: 10 works · 5.9% of their workModeling and Simulation: 10 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJoshua M. Epstein162works
Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences37%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else8049.1%
    1. Social Sciences3521.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1710.3%
    3. Decision Sciences74.5%
    1. Physics and Astronomy148.4%
    2. Mathematics105.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics10% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Modeling and Simulation6% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joshua M. Epstein's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agent-Based Modeling, Social Networks, Infectious Diseases, Altruism, Cooperation, Opinion Dynamics, Social Influence and COVID-19.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Agent-Based Modeling372 topics
  2. Social Networks332 topics
  3. Infectious Diseases292 topics
  4. Altruism251 topic
  5. Cooperation251 topic
  6. Opinion Dynamics251 topic
  7. Social Influence251 topic
  8. COVID-19211 topic
  9. Modeling211 topic
  10. Econophysics121 topic
  11. Multifractal Analysis121 topic
  12. Disease Transmission81 topic
  13. Ebola Virus81 topic
  14. Economic Growth81 topic
  15. Game Theory81 topic
  16. Military Expenditure81 topic
  17. Network Formation81 topic
  18. Outbreak81 topic
  19. Population Dynamics81 topic

Where does Joshua M. Epstein work?

Joshua M. Epstein's main affiliation in the publication record is Brookings Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joshua M. Epstein have?

OpenAlex counts 162 works and 12,496 citations for Joshua M. Epstein, an h-index of 39, ranking #117,766 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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