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Austria
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
13653
World Ranking
1468
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Stefan Thurner is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research spans multiple areas, including complex network analysis, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and supply chain resilience. They have also contributed to fields such as statistical and nonlinear physics, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's recent work includes papers published in notable venues:

  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19 (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • A network-based explanation of why most COVID-19 infection curves are linear (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Relative risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism in persons with cancer vs. persons without cancer-a nationwide analysis (2021, European Heart Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stefan Thurner include:

  • Peter Klimek
  • Christian Diem
  • Rudolf Hanel
  • Jan Korbel
  • Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

The scientist has published extensively in several journals and platforms, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 33 publications
  • Scientific Reports with 9 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 8 publications
  • PLoS ONE with 6 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal with 6 publications

In addition to journal articles, Stefan Thurner has contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, including:

  • Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Technological Environments (2022)
  • Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience (2022)

Their research covers a variety of main topics, such as:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Stefan Thurner holds membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an acknowledgment within their professional career.

Best Publications

  • Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions.

    Nils Haug;Lukas Geyrhofer;Alessandro Londei;Elma Dervic

  • Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks in an online world

    Michael Szell;Renaud Lambiotte;Stefan Thurner

  • Scaling

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  • Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems

    Rudolf Hanel;Stefan Thurner;Peter Klimek

  • The multi-layer network nature of systemic risk and its implications for the costs of financial crises

    Sebastian Poledna;Jos'e Luis Molina-Borboa;Seraf'in Mart'inez-Jaramillo;Marco van der Leij

  • Measuring social dynamics in a massive multiplayer online game

    Michael Szell;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner

  • Traffic on complex networks: Towards understanding global statistical properties from microscopic density fluctuations.

    Bosiljka Tadić;Stefan Thurner;G. J. Rodgers

  • MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRA AS A MEASURE OF COMPLEXITY IN HUMAN POSTURE

    Yu Shimizu;Stefan Thurner;Klaus Ehrenberger

  • Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility

    Stefan Thurner;J. Farmer;John Geanakoplos

  • Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology

    Stefan Thurner;Markus C. Feurstein;Malvin C. Teich

  • Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities

    Peter Klimek;Yuri Yegorov;Rudolf Hanel;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner

  • A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19.

    Amélie Desvars-Larrive;Elma Dervic;Nils Haug;Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

  • Generalized entropies and the transformation group of superstatistics

    Rudolf Hanel;Stefan Thurner;Murray Gell-Mann

  • Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility

    Stefan Thurner;J. Doyne

  • A comprehensive classification of complex statistical systems and an axiomatic derivation of their entropy and distribution functions

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  • How women organize social networks different from men

    Michael Szell;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner

  • When do generalized entropies apply? How phase space volume determines entropy

    R. Hanel;S. Thurner;S. Thurner

  • Complex systems: physics beyond physics

    Yurij Holovatch;Yurij Holovatch;Ralph Kenna;Ralph Kenna;Stefan Thurner

  • TRANSPORT ON COMPLEX NETWORKS: FLOW, JAMMING AND OPTIMIZATION

    Bosiljka Tadić;G. J. Rodgers;Stefan Thurner

  • A network-based explanation of why most COVID-19 infection curves are linear.

    Stefan Thurner;Peter Klimek;Rudolf Hanel

  • Understanding mobility in a social petri dish

    Michael Szell;Roberta Sinatra;Roberta Sinatra;Giovanni Petri;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner

  • Transcriptomal comparison of human dermal lymphatic endothelial cells ex vivo and in vitro

    Nikolaus Wick;Pipsa Saharinen;Juha Saharinen;Elisabeth Gurnhofer

  • DebtRank-transparency: Controlling systemic risk in financial networks

    Stefan Thurner;Sebastian Poledna

  • Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility

    Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner;J. Doyne Farmer;J. Doyne Farmer;John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantino Tsallis
Constantino Tsallis Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Christian Windischberger
Christian Windischberger Medical University of Vienna
Donald G. Saari
Donald G. Saari University of California, Irvine
Stuart A. Kauffman
Stuart A. Kauffman University of Vermont
Lüder Deecke
Lüder Deecke Medical University of Vienna
Neil R. Edwards
Neil R. Edwards The Open University
Lukas A. Huber
Lukas A. Huber Innsbruck Medical University
Detlof von Winterfeldt
Detlof von Winterfeldt University of Southern California
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford

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