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Sergey Gavrilets publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sergey Gavrilets sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 138 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Sergey Gavrilets D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sergey Gavrilets sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sergey Gavrilets is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with particular attention to sociology and political science, safety research, statistical and nonlinear physics, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

Their academic work covers several main topics, including:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Language and Cultural Evolution

Gavrilets has published frequently in various venues. Those with the highest number of publications include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Norm Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Norm Emergence, Persistence, and Change" (2023) published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin's Descent of Man" (2021) published in Science
  • "The dynamics of injunctive social norms" (2020) published in Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • "Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses" (2022) published in Science Advances
  • "Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design" (2020) published in Evolution and Human Behavior

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Denis Tverskoi
  • Ángel Sánchez
  • Giulia Andrighetto
  • Yaroslav Rosokha
  • Xinxin Lyu

Gavrilets has received recognition through fellowships such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2008)

Best Publications

  • Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species

    Sergey Gavrilets

  • Adaptive radiation: contrasting theory with data.

    Sergey Gavrilets;Jonathan B. Losos

  • PERSPECTIVE: MODELS OF SPECIATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 40 YEARS?

    Sergey Gavrilets

  • Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict

    Sergey Gavrilets

  • Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation

    Sergey Gavrilets;Aaron Vose

  • The evolution of female mate choice by sexual conflict

    Sergey Gavrilets;Göran Arnqvist;Urban Friberg

  • War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies

    Peter Turchin;Thomas E. Currie;Edward A. L. Turner;Sergey Gavrilets

  • The dynamics of evolutionary stasis

    Niles Eldredge;John N. Thompson;Paul M. Brakefield;Sergey Gavrilets

  • Evolution and speciation on holey adaptive landscapes

    Sergey Gavrilets

  • Linking the emergence of fungal plant diseases with ecological speciation

    Tatiana Giraud;Pierre Gladieux;Sergey Gavrilets

  • The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. V. Evolution of reaction norm shape

    Sergey Gavrilets;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • Sympatric speciation by sexual conflict

    Sergey Gavrilets;David Waxman

  • PATTERNS OF PARAPATRIC SPECIATION

    Sergey Gavrilets;Hai Li;Michael D. Vose

  • Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization

    Sergey Gavrilets;Peter J. Richerson

  • What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets

  • 20 questions on Adaptive Dynamics

    David Waxman;S. Gavrilets

  • Pattern, process and geographic modes of speciation

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets;S. Gavrilets

  • The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

    Harvey Whitehouse;Jonathan Jong;Michael D. Buhrmester;Ángel Gómez

  • Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding

    Sergey Gavrilets

  • A solution to the collective action problem in between-group conflict with within-group inequality.

    Sergey Gavrilets;Laura Fortunato

  • A Dynamical Theory of Speciation on Holey Adaptive Landscapes.

    Sergey Gavrilets

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Rice
William R. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Alan Hastings
Alan Hastings University of California, Davis
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis
Walter Salzburger
Walter Salzburger University of Basel
Kimmo K. Kahilainen
Kimmo K. Kahilainen University of Helsinki
Kim Præbel
Kim Præbel University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Mark van Vugt
Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Per-Arne Amundsen
Per-Arne Amundsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Susan Perry
Susan Perry University of California, Los Angeles

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