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D-Index
49
Citations
14892
World Ranking
2877
National Ranking
1398

Brian Skyrms publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian Skyrms sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 221 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Brian Skyrms D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian Skyrms sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Brian Skyrms is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence. Their work primarily addresses topics such as Game Theory and Applications, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Language and Cultural Evolution, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

Skyrms has contributed extensively to academic literature, with frequent publications in journals such as:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Noûs
  • Homo Oeconomicus
  • Synthese

Their recent papers include:

  • "On the Evolution of Compositional Language," 2020, Philosophy of Science
  • "Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions," 2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • "Learning in Crawford-Sobel Signalling Games," 2025, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • "PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter," 2021, Philosophy of Science
  • "PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter," 2023, Philosophy of Science

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Skyrms' research. Frequent coauthors include Kevin Elliott, Alan C. Love, Angela Potochnik, Katie Steele, and James Owen Weatherall.

Their contributions also extend to book publications. One notable book published by Oxford University Press is The Pursuit of Happiness (2020).

Skyrms has been recognized by several prestigious organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1999, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1987.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of the social contract

    Brian Skyrms

  • The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causal necessity: A pragmatic investigation of the necessity of laws

    Brian Skyrms

  • Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information

    Brian Skyrms

  • Evolution of the Social Contract

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  • A Dynamic Model of Social Network Formation

    Brian Skyrms;Robin Pemantle

  • Choice and chance : an introduction to inductive logic

    Brian Skyrms

  • The dynamics of rational deliberation

    Brian Skyrms

  • Evolutionary dynamics of collective action in N-person stag hunt dilemmas

    Jorge M Pacheco;Francisco C Santos;Max O Souza;Brian Skyrms

  • Pragmatics and empiricism

    Brian Skyrms

  • The Stag Hunt

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causation in decision, belief change, and statistics

    William L. Harper;Brian Skyrms

  • Higher‐Order Degrees of Belief

    Brian Skyrms

  • Dynamic coherence and probability kinematics

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causal decision theory

    Brian Skyrms

  • Presidential Address: Signals

    Brian Skyrms

  • Learning to signal: Analysis of a micro-level reinforcement model

    Raffaele Argiento;Robin Pemantle;Brian Skyrms;Stanislav Volkov

  • Resiliency, Propensities, and Causal Necessity

    Brian Skyrms

  • Darwin Meets the Logic of Decision: Correlation in Evolutionary Game Theory

    Brian Skyrms

  • Bargaining with neighbors: is justice contagious?

    Jason Alexander;Brian Skyrms

  • Science and Subjectivity

    Brian Skyrms;Israel Scheffler

  • Causation, chance, and credence

    Brian Skyrms;William L. Harper

  • Knowledge, Belief, and Counterfactual Reasoning in Games

    Cristina Bicchieri;Richard Jeffrey;Brian Skyrms

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Pemantle
Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania
Francisco C. Santos
Francisco C. Santos Instituto Superior Técnico
Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis Stanford University
Cristina Bicchieri
Cristina Bicchieri University of Pennsylvania
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robyn M. Dawes
Robyn M. Dawes Carnegie Mellon University
David Faust
David Faust University of Rhode Island
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine

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