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Xiaojie Chen is affiliated with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Their research work spans several interdisciplinary fields, chiefly within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and social sciences. The scientist has contributed substantially to the study of evolutionary game theory and cooperation, experimental behavioral economics, and the dynamics of evolution and genetic processes.

Their publication record includes a wide range of topics such as evolutionary psychology, opinion dynamics, mathematical and theoretical epidemiology, and ecology models. More specifically, Chen's work frequently explores areas like evolutionary game theory and cooperation, as well as experimental approaches to behavioral economics.

Chen's research has appeared in prominent journals across multiple disciplines. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has collaborated extensively with peers in the field. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Attila Szolnoki
  • Linjie Liu
  • Shengxian Wang
  • Gang Zhou

Several notable recent papers highlight the range and scope of Chen's research. These include:

  • "Endothelial ZEB1 promotes angiogenesis-dependent bone formation and reverses osteoporosis," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Tax-based pure punishment and reward in the public goods game," 2020, Physics Letters A
  • "Combination of institutional incentives for cooperative governance of risky commons," 2021, iScience
  • "Coevolutionary dynamics via adaptive feedback in collective-risk social dilemma game," 2023, eLife
  • "Antifungal activity of volatile compounds produced by endophytic Bacillus subtilis DZSY21 against Curvularia lunata," 2020, Annals of Microbiology

Chen's work integrates concepts from sociology and political science, molecular biology, safety research, genetics, and public health. This reflects an interdisciplinary approach that bridges social science methodologies with molecular and genetic investigations.

Best Publications

  • Win-Stay-Lose-Learn Promotes Cooperation in the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Game

    Yongkui Liu;Xiaojie Chen;Lin Zhang;Long Wang

  • Promotion of cooperation induced by appropriate payoff aspirations in a small-world networked game.

    Xiaojie Chen;Long Wang

  • Probabilistic sharing solves the problem of costly punishment

    Xiaojie Chen;Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

  • Competition and cooperation among different punishing strategies in the spatial public goods game

    Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc;Matjaž Perc

  • Social dilemmas in an online social network: The structure and evolution of cooperation

    Feng Fu;Xiaojie Chen;Lianghuan Liu;Long Wang

  • First carrot, then stick: how the adaptive hybridization of incentives promotes cooperation.

    Xiaojie Chen;Xiaojie Chen;Tatsuya Sasaki;Tatsuya Sasaki;Åke Brännström;Åke Brännström;Ulf Dieckmann

  • Punishment and inspection for governing the commons in a feedback-evolving game.

    Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki

  • Risk-driven migration and the collective-risk social dilemma.

    Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki;Matjaž Perc

  • Replicator dynamics for public goods game with resource allocation in large populations

    Qiang Wang;Nanrong He;Xiaojie Chen

  • Alliance formation with exclusion in the spatial public goods game

    Attila Szolnoki;Xiaojie Chen

  • Interaction stochasticity supports cooperation in spatial Prisoner's dilemma.

    Xiaojie Chen;Feng Fu;Long Wang

  • Promoting cooperation by punishing minority

    Han-Xin Yang;Xiaojie Chen

  • Competitions between prosocial exclusions and punishments in finite populations.

    Linjie Liu;Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki

  • Probabilistic interconnection between interdependent networks promotes cooperation in the public goods game

    Baokui Wang;Xiaojie Chen;Long Wang

  • Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in a population with probabilistic corrupt enforcers and violators

    Linjie Liu;Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki

  • Benefits of tolerance in public goods games.

    Attila Szolnoki;Xiaojie Chen

  • Social tolerance allows cooperation to prevail in an adaptive environment.

    Xiaojie Chen;Xiaojie Chen;Feng Fu;Feng Fu;Long Wang

  • Evolutionary dynamics in the public goods games with switching between punishment and exclusion.

    Linjie Liu;Shengxian Wang;Xiaojie Chen;Matjaž Perc

  • Evolution of public cooperation in a monitored society with implicated punishment and within-group enforcement

    Xiaojie Chen;Tatsuya Sasaki;Matjaž Perc

  • Environmental feedback drives cooperation in spatial social dilemmas

    Attila Szolnoki;Xiaojie Chen

  • Prisoner's Dilemma on community networks

    Xiaojie Chen;Feng Fu;Long Wang

  • Exploring optimal institutional incentives for public cooperation

    Shengxian Wang;Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki

  • Individual wealth-based selection supports cooperation in spatial public goods games.

    Xiaojie Chen;Attila Szolnoki

Frequent Co-Authors

Long Wang
Long Wang Peking University
Attila Szolnoki
Attila Szolnoki Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Matjaž Perc
Matjaž Perc University of Maribor
Guangming Xie
Guangming Xie Peking University
Changyin Sun
Changyin Sun Southeast University
Ming Cao
Ming Cao University of Groningen

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