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Mark Alfano 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 Mark Alfano sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 167 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Alfano 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 Mark Alfano 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
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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Character as Moral Fiction

    Mark Alfano

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Stewardship of global collective behavior.

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

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

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

  • Expanding The Situationist Challenge To Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology

    Mark Alfano

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

    Mark Alfano;Kathryn Iurino;Paul Stey;Brian Robinson

  • The philosophical basis of algorithmic recourse

    Suresh Venkatasubramanian;Mark Alfano

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

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

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

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

  • Moral Psychology: An Introduction

    Mark Alfano

  • Experimental Moral Philosophy

    Mark Alfano;Don Loeb;Alexandra Plakias

  • Knowledge From Vice: Deeply Social Epistemology

    Neil Levy;Mark Alfano

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

    Mark Alfano;Michael P. Lynch;Alessandra Tanesini

  • Social Virtue Epistemology

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

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

  • Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization

    Mark Alfano;J. Adam Carter;Marc Cheong

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

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

  • Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

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  • The Most Agreeable of All Vices: Nietzsche as Virtue Epistemologist

    Mark Alfano

  • Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks

    Emily Sullivan;Max Sondag;Ignaz Rutter;Wouter Meulemans

  • Placebo Effects and Informed Consent

    Mark Alfano

  • Identifying virtues and values through obituary data-mining

    Mark Alfano;Mark Alfano;Andrew Higgins;Jacob Levernier

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

    Mark Alfano

  • Friendship and the Structure of Trust

    Mark Alfano

  • The Centrality of Belief and Reflection in Knobe-Effect Cases

    Mark Alfano;James Beebe;Brian Robinson

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

    Mark Alfano

  • Nietzsche's Moral Psychology

    Mark Alfano

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

    M.R. Alfano

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel K. Lapsley
Daniel K. Lapsley University of Notre Dame
Bettina Speckmann
Bettina Speckmann Eindhoven University of Technology
Mark J. Brandt
Mark J. Brandt Michigan State University
Mirta Galesic
Mirta Galesic Santa Fe Institute
Agustin Fuentes
Agustin Fuentes Princeton University
Neil Levy
Neil Levy Macquarie University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Andrew R. A. Conway
Andrew R. A. Conway Claremont Graduate University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

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