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Researcher · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · Netherlands

Mark van Vugt

Mark van Vugt publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8939-7523 OpenAlex
World rank
#8,072
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#114
of 107,149
Works
266
Citations
19k
Citations per work
71.4
h-index
69
i10-index 159Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Mark van Vugt

What does Mark van Vugt research?

Mark van Vugt's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Psychology (27%), Neuroscience (5%).

Social Sciences: 163 works · 61.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 90 works · 34.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 66 works · 24.8% of their workSafety Research: 24 works · 9.2% of their workPsychology: 73 works · 27.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 35 works · 13.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 29 works · 10.8% of their workApplied Psychology: 9 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 33.8% of their workLife Sciences: 13 works · 4.9% of their workNeuroscience: 13 works · 4.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMark van Vugt266works
Life Sciences5%Social Sciences61%

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. Social Sciences9034.0%
    2. Psychology7327.3%
  2. Everything else9033.8%
    1. Neuroscience134.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Safety Research9% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Applied Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark van Vugt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Games, Social Networks, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Behavior, Emotion and Economic Experiments.

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. Altruism1482 topics
  2. Cooperation1482 topics
  3. Evolutionary Games881 topic
  4. Social Networks881 topic
  5. Evolutionary Psychology861 topic
  6. Human Behavior861 topic
  7. Emotion692 topics
  8. Economic Experiments601 topic
  9. Social Preferences601 topic
  10. Intergroup Contact491 topic
  11. Social Identity491 topic
  12. Cultural Psychology411 topic
  13. Values411 topic
  14. Disgust281 topic
  15. Moral Judgment281 topic
  16. Self-Regulation211 topic
  17. Theory of Planned Behaviour211 topic
  18. Environmental Attitudes191 topic
  19. Pro-environmental Behavior191 topic

Where does Mark van Vugt work?

Mark van Vugt's main affiliation in the publication record is Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Mark van Vugt have?

OpenAlex counts 266 works and 19,000 citations for Mark van Vugt, an h-index of 69, ranking #8,072 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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