2026 Attila Szolnoki: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	83	313	266	1	1	163	26445

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Hungary Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Attila Szolnoki is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary. Their research primarily focuses on interdisciplinary topics situated within social sciences, with a significant emphasis on evolutionary game theory and cooperation. This foundation supports extensive work in related areas such as evolution and genetic dynamics, experimental behavioral economics studies, and mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models.

The scientist's research topics feature prominently:

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
Game Theory and Applications
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Szolnoki has collaborated frequently with several scholars across multiple projects, including:

Xiaojie Chen
Chaoqian Wang
Hsuan-Wei Lee
Colin Cleveland
Minyu Feng

Their publications are distributed across prestigious and diverse venues. The most frequent journals and publication platforms include:

Chaos Solitons & Fractals
arXiv (Cornell University)
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
New Journal of Physics

Significant recent papers by Attila Szolnoki cover a variety of topics related to cooperation, collective-risk dilemmas, and evolutionary dynamics. Notable works include:

"Combination of institutional incentives for cooperative governance of risky commons," 2021, published in iScience
"Coevolutionary dynamics via adaptive feedback in collective-risk social dilemma game," 2023, published in eLife
"Pattern formations driven by cyclic interactions: A brief review of recent developments," 2020, published in Europhysics Letters (EPL)
"Optimization of institutional incentives for cooperation in structured populations," 2023, published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
"Blocking defector invasion by focusing on the most successful partner," 2020, published in Applied Mathematics and Computation

The research output demonstrates a broad engagement with theoretical and applied aspects of cooperation and social dynamics within structured populations. Szolnoki's work contributes to understanding complex interactions and strategy dynamics in social and biological systems, with implications for governance and public health contexts.

Best Publications

Coevolutionary games--a mini review.

Matjaž Perc;Attila Szolnoki

2063
Citations
Statistical physics of human cooperation

Matjaž Perc;Jillian J. Jordan;David G. Rand;Zhen Wang

1473
Citations
Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: a review.

Matjaz Perc;Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes;Attila Szolnoki;Luis Mario Floría

1427
Citations
Evolutionary games on multilayer networks: a colloquium

Zhen Wang;Zhen Wang;Lin Wang;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;Matjaž Perc

935
Citations
Social diversity and promotion of cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game.

Matjaž Perc;Attila Szolnoki

804
Citations
Reward and cooperation in the spatial public goods game

Attila Szolnoki;Matjaz Perc

668
Citations
Phase diagrams for an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on two-dimensional lattices

György Szabó;Jeromos Vukov;Attila Szolnoki

576
Citations
Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: A review

Attila Szolnoki;Mauro Mobilia;Luo Luo Jiang;Bartosz Szczesny

528
Citations
Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games

Zhen Wang;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

497
Citations
Cooperation enhanced by inhomogeneous activity of teaching for evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma games

A. Szolnoki;G. Szabó

458
Citations
Punish, but not too hard: how costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game

Dirk Helbing;Dirk Helbing;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;György Szabó

447
Citations
Topology-independent impact of noise on cooperation in spatial public goods games.

Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;György Szabó

441
Citations
Phase diagrams for the spatial public goods game with pool punishment.

Attila Szolnoki;György Szabó;Matjaž Perc

413
Citations
Evolution of public cooperation on interdependent networks: The impact of biased utility functions

Zhen Wang;Zhen Wang;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

402
Citations
Evolutionary establishment of moral and double moral standards through spatial interactions.

Dirk Helbing;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;György Szabó

401
Citations
Cooperation in the noisy case: Prisoner's dilemma game on two types of regular random graphs

Jeromos Vukov;György Szabó;Attila Szolnoki

374
Citations
Coevolution of teaching activity promotes cooperation

Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

363
Citations
Towards effective payoffs in the prisoner's dilemma game on scale-free networks

Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;Zsuzsa Danku

329
Citations
Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks

Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

310
Citations
Optimal interdependence between networks for the evolution of cooperation

Zhen Wang;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

299
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matjaž Perc University of Maribor

Xiaojie Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich

Long Wang Peking University

David G. Rand Cornell University

External Links

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