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Researcher · University of Vienna · Austria

Karl Sigmund

Karl Sigmund publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Management Science and Operations Research, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics and Game Theory and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0003-1059-7982 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,833
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#237
of 43,330
Works
358
Citations
33k
Citations per work
91.0
h-index
65
i10-index 134Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Karl Sigmund

What does Karl Sigmund research?

Karl Sigmund's work is mostly in Social Sciences (24%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Decision Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 182 works · 50.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 109 works · 30.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 86 works · 24.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 68 works · 19.1% of their workSafety Research: 18 works · 5.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 23 works · 6.4% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 23 works · 6.4% of their workLife Sciences: 32 works · 9.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 works · 9.0% of their workGenetics: 32 works · 9.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 19 works · 5.3% of their workMedicine: 19 works · 5.3% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 19 works · 5.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 4.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 works · 4.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 16 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKarl Sigmund358works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences30%

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 else18250.7%
    1. Social Sciences8624.1%
    2. Decision Sciences236.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology329.0%
    1. Medicine195.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy164.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Genetics9% of their works
  3. 3Management Science and Operations Research6% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research5% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karl Sigmund's research?

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

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. Social Networks1812 topics
  2. Altruism1712 topics
  3. Cooperation1712 topics
  4. Evolutionary Games1311 topic
  5. Indirect Reciprocity1311 topic
  6. Adaptation721 topic
  7. Evolution721 topic
  8. Game Theory501 topic
  9. Network Formation501 topic
  10. Economic Experiments401 topic
  11. Social Preferences401 topic
  12. Disease Transmission371 topic
  13. Population Dynamics371 topic
  14. Historical Sources231 topic
  15. Mathematics Education231 topic
  16. Prebiotic Chemistry221 topic
  17. RNA World221 topic
  18. Chaos201 topic
  19. Dynamical Systems201 topic

Where does Karl Sigmund work?

Karl Sigmund's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Vienna, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Karl Sigmund have?

OpenAlex counts 358 works and 32,581 citations for Karl Sigmund, an h-index of 65, ranking #22,833 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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