2026 Sergey Gavrilets: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	67	1600	1531	586	552	138	16919

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

1758
Citations
Adaptive radiation: contrasting theory with data.

Sergey Gavrilets;Jonathan B. Losos

797
Citations
PERSPECTIVE: MODELS OF SPECIATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 40 YEARS?

Sergey Gavrilets

727
Citations
Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict

Sergey Gavrilets

643
Citations
Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation

Sergey Gavrilets;Aaron Vose

515
Citations
The evolution of female mate choice by sexual conflict

Sergey Gavrilets;Göran Arnqvist;Urban Friberg

485
Citations
War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies

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

456
Citations
The dynamics of evolutionary stasis

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

434
Citations
Evolution and speciation on holey adaptive landscapes

Sergey Gavrilets

399
Citations
Linking the emergence of fungal plant diseases with ecological speciation

Tatiana Giraud;Pierre Gladieux;Sergey Gavrilets

363
Citations
The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. V. Evolution of reaction norm shape

Sergey Gavrilets;Samuel M. Scheiner

360
Citations
Sympatric speciation by sexual conflict

Sergey Gavrilets;David Waxman

330
Citations
PATTERNS OF PARAPATRIC SPECIATION

Sergey Gavrilets;Hai Li;Michael D. Vose

306
Citations
Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization

Sergey Gavrilets;Peter J. Richerson

287
Citations
What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?

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

282
Citations
20 questions on Adaptive Dynamics

David Waxman;S. Gavrilets

273
Citations
Pattern, process and geographic modes of speciation

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

237
Citations
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

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

233
Citations
Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding

Sergey Gavrilets

230
Citations
A solution to the collective action problem in between-group conflict with within-group inequality.

Sergey Gavrilets;Laura Fortunato

200
Citations
A Dynamical Theory of Speciation on Holey Adaptive Landscapes.

Sergey Gavrilets

195
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara

Alan Hastings University of California, Davis

Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis

Walter Salzburger University of Basel

Kimmo K. Kahilainen University of Helsinki

Kim Præbel University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Per-Arne Amundsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Susan Perry University of California, Los Angeles

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