2026 Thomas Lux: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	54	1117	990	35	32	209	14854

Thomas Lux publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Lux sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 209 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Thomas Lux D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Lux sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Lux is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research covers topics such as Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Sociology and Education Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Education Methods and Technologies, Economic theories and models, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, and German legal, social, and political studies.

Thomas Lux has published articles in multiple research venues, frequently appearing in:

Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
Studies in health technology and informatics
Quantitative Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Lux include:

"Neue Ungleichheitsfragen, neue Cleavages? Ein internationaler Vergleich der Einstellungen in vier Ungleichheitsfeldern" (2021), Berliner Journal für Soziologie
"The social dynamics of COVID-19" (2021), Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Other significant publications by collaborators within the research network include:

"Advances in the agent-based modeling of economic and social behavior" (2021), SN Business & Economics
"Die drei Arenen der neuen Ungleichheitskonflikte. Eine sozialstrukturelle Positionsbestimmung der Einstellungen zu Umverteilung, Migration und sexueller Diversität" (2020), Berliner Journal für Soziologie
"Legitimizing Inequality" (2020), Comparative Sociology

The scientist has also engaged in book publishing, with at least one title released through wbv Media eBooks:

"Volkshochschul-Statistik" (2023)

Thomas Lux frequently collaborates with researchers including Steffen Mau, Alexander Meining, Fabian Gülzau, Lutz Honvehlmann, and Hella Huntemann.

Best Publications

Scaling and criticality in a stochastic multi-agent model of a financial market

Thomas Lux;Michele Marchesi

2075
Citations
Herd Behaviour, Bubbles and Crashes.

Thomas Lux

1566
Citations
VOLATILITY CLUSTERING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS: A MICROSIMULATION OF INTERACTING AGENTS

Thomas Lux;Michele Marchesi

1029
Citations
The socio-economic dynamics of speculative markets: interacting agents, chaos, and the fat tails of return distributions

Thomas Lux;Thomas Lux

914
Citations
The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics

David Colander;Hans Föllmer;Armin Haas;Michael D. Goldberg

595
Citations
The stable Paretian hypothesis and the frequency of large returns: an examination of major German stocks

Thomas Lux

533
Citations
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION

David Colander;Michael Goldberg;Armin Haas;Katarina Juselius

496
Citations
Estimation of agent-based models: the case of an asymmetric herding model

Simone Alfarano;Thomas Lux;Friedrich Wagner

452
Citations
Core---Periphery Structure in the Overnight Money Market: Evidence from the e-MID Trading Platform

Daniel Fricke;Thomas Lux

389
Citations
Agent-based Models of Financial Markets

E. Samanidou;E. Zschischang;D. Stauffer;Thomas Lux

385
Citations
Worrying trends in econophysics

Mauro Gallegati;Steve Keen;Thomas Lux;Paul Ormerod

294
Citations
Stochastic behavioral asset pricing models and the stylized facts

Thomas Lux

268
Citations
Time variation of higher moments in a financial market with heterogeneous agents: An analytical approach

Simone Alfarano;Thomas Lux;Friedrich Wagner

244
Citations
Time variation of second moments from a noise trader/infection model

Thomas Lux

221
Citations
Volatility Clustering in Financial Markets: A Micro-Simulation of Interacting Agents

Thomas Lux;Michele Marchesi

197
Citations
The Markov-Switching Multifractal Model of asset returns: GMM estimation and linear forecasting of volatility

Thomas Lux

179
Citations
On Rational Bubbles and Fat Tails

Thomas Lux;Didier Sornette

175
Citations
Testing for non-linear structure in an artificial financial market

Shu-Heng Chen;Thomas Lux;Michele Marchesi

169
Citations
Market Fluctuations I: Scaling, Multiscaling, and Their Possible Origins

Thomas Lux;Marcel Ausloos

163
Citations
Forecasting volatility and volume in the Tokyo Stock Market: long memory, fractality and regime switching

Thomas Lux;Taisei Kaizoji

140
Citations
Financial power laws: Empirical evidence, models, and mechanisms

Thomas Lux;Simone Alfarano

120
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari

Nils Stein University of Western Australia

Manuel Spannagl Helmholtz Zentrum München

Alan Kirman School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Klaus F. X. Mayer Technical University of Munich

David Colander Middlebury College

Burkhard Steuernagel John Innes Centre

Martin Mascher Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research

Robbie Waugh James Hutton Institute

Beat Keller University of Zurich

External Links

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