2026 Mark Alfano: 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	36	6518	6061	468	451	167	4971

Overview

Mark Alfano is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has an extensive publication record primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans across multiple subfields including sociology and political science, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, statistical and nonlinear physics, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist has explored various topics in their work, notably:

Misinformation and Its Impacts
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Climate Change Communication and Perception
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Mark Alfano has published frequently in a range of academic journals and platforms, with notable venues including:

Synthese
Scientific Data
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Social Epistemology

The following are some of the recent papers involving Alfano, detailing publication year and venue:

"Stewardship of global collective behavior," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic," 2022, Nature Communications
"Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries," 2024, Science Advances
"How should we change teaching and assessment in response to increasingly powerful generative Artificial Intelligence? Outcomes of the ChatGPT teacher survey," 2024, Education and Information Technologies
"Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries," 2025, Nature Human Behaviour

Alfano's collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

Panagiotis Mitkidis
Marinus Ferreira
Marc Cheong
Flávio Azevedo
Colin Klein

In addition to journal articles, Mark Alfano has contributed to academic books published by prominent presses. Titles include Experimental Philosophy for Beginners (2024, Springer Nature) and Nietzsche on Virtue (2024, Cambridge University Press).

Best Publications

When depression breeds contempt: reassurance seeking, self-esteem, and rejection of depressed college students by their roommates.

Thomas E. Joiner;Mark S. Alfano;Gerald I. Metalsky

626
Citations
Character as Moral Fiction

Mark Alfano

456
Citations
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

Unknown

292
Citations
Stewardship of global collective behavior.

Joseph B. Bak-Coleman;Mark Alfano;Mark Alfano;Wolfram Barfuss;Carl T. Bergstrom

266
Citations
Caught in the Crossfire: Depression, Self-Consistency, Self-Enhancement, and the Response of Others

Thomas E. Joiner;Mark S. Alfano;Gerald I. Metalsky

241
Citations
Expanding The Situationist Challenge To Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology

Mark Alfano

172
Citations
Development and validation of a multi-dimensional measure of intellectual humility.

Mark Alfano;Kathryn Iurino;Paul Stey;Brian Robinson

136
Citations
The philosophical basis of algorithmic recourse

Suresh Venkatasubramanian;Mark Alfano

113
Citations
Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube’s recommender system

Mark Alfano;Amir Ebrahimi Fard;J. Adam Carter;Peter Clutton

98
Citations
Functional outcome in TBI II: verbal memory and information processing speed mediators.

Yuri Rassovsky;Paul Satz;Mark S Alfano;Roger K Light

95
Citations
Moral Psychology: An Introduction

Mark Alfano

93
Citations
Experimental Moral Philosophy

Mark Alfano;Don Loeb;Alexandra Plakias

91
Citations
Knowledge From Vice: Deeply Social Epistemology

Neil Levy;Mark Alfano

83
Citations
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

Mark Alfano;Michael P. Lynch;Alessandra Tanesini

80
Citations
Social Virtue Epistemology

Unknown

76
Citations
Functional Outcome in TBI I: Neuropsychological, Emotional, and Behavioral Mediators

Yuri Rassovsky;Paul Satz;Mark S Alfano;Roger K Light

76
Citations
Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization

Mark Alfano;J. Adam Carter;Marc Cheong

75
Citations
Attributional Style: A Mediator of the Shyness–Depression Relationship?

Mark S. Alfano;Thomas E. Joiner Jr.;Mark Perry

75
Citations
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

Unknown

64
Citations
The Most Agreeable of All Vices: Nietzsche as Virtue Epistemologist

Mark Alfano

63
Citations
Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks

Emily Sullivan;Max Sondag;Ignaz Rutter;Wouter Meulemans

42
Citations
Placebo Effects and Informed Consent

Mark Alfano

37
Citations
Identifying virtues and values through obituary data-mining

Mark Alfano;Mark Alfano;Andrew Higgins;Jacob Levernier

31
Citations
How One Becomes What One Is Called: On the Relation between Traits and Trait-Terms in Nietzsche

Mark Alfano

30
Citations
Friendship and the Structure of Trust

Mark Alfano

18
Citations
The Centrality of Belief and Reflection in Knobe-Effect Cases

Mark Alfano;James Beebe;Brian Robinson

8
Citations
Twenty-first century perspectivism. The role of emotions in scientific inquiry

Mark Alfano

4
Citations
Nietzsche's Moral Psychology

Mark Alfano

3
Citations
Anthony K. Jensen; An Interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life

M.R. Alfano

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel K. Lapsley University of Notre Dame

Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

Andrew R. A. Conway Claremont Graduate University

Elke U. Weber Princeton University

Neil Levy Macquarie University

Agustin Fuentes Princeton University

Mirta Galesic Santa Fe Institute

External Links

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