OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of JASSS-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Method for Emerging Empirical Age Structures in Agent-Based Models with Exogenous Survival Probabilities	46
Heterogeneity in Agent-Based Models	32
Agent-Based Modelling of Mpox Infection Dynamics: Simulating Disease Transmission and Control Strategies	26
AGENTBLOCKS: A Community Platform for Sharing, Comparing, and Improving Reusable Building Blocks for (Agent-Based) Models	17
Scientific Disagreements and the Diagnosticity of Evidence: How Too Much Data May Lead to Polarization	14
An Agent-Based Model for Assessing the Resilience of Drug Trafficking Organizations to Law Enforcement Interventions	13
Equity, Urgency, Affordability: An ABM Exploration of Design Principles for Collective Action Institutions in Times of Crisis	13
Finance and Market Concentration Using Agent-Based Modeling: Evidence from South Korea	13
Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers	13
An Agent-Based Model of Issue Alignment and Polarization Based on the Menu-Independent and Menu-Dependent Influences Model	12
Corrigendum to 'Arguments as Drivers of Issue Polarisation in Debates Among Artificial Agents', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 25 (1) 4, 2022	12
Equation-Based Versus Agent-Based Models: Why Not Embrace Both for an Efficient Parameter Calibration?	12
Exploring the Influence of Open-Mindedness and Social Identity on Opinion Polarization in a Modified Hegselmann-Krause Model	12
Modeling Sentiment Spread in Reddit's Financial Communities Through Epidemiological and Deep Learning Approaches	10
Success-Driven User Activity Contributes to Online Polarization	10
Generating a Contact Matrix for Aged Care Settings in Australia: An Agent-Based Model Study	10
Social Simulation Models as Refuting Machines	8
Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach	8
Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design	7
Mechanisms Behind Public School Enrollment Trends in School Choice Systems: The Case of Chile	7
[In]Credible Models – Verification, Validation & Accreditation of Agent-Based Models to Support Policy-Making	7
An Agent-Based Model to Assess Possible Interventions for Large Shigellosis Outbreaks	7
A Microsimulation Model of Behaviour Change Calibrated to Reversal Learning Data	7
The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model	7
Editorial: Modelling Values in Social, Technical, and Ecological Systems	7

An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Pedestrian Evacuation Based on Bayesian Nash Equilibrium	6
An Empirical and Simulation Investigation of Bounded Confidence and Negative Influence in Opinion Dynamics Using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model	6
When "I" Becomes "We": Modelling Dynamic Identity on Autonomous Agents	6
Collecting Data in an Immersive Video Environment to Set up an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrians’ Compliance with COVID-Related Interventions	6
Corrigendum to 'an Agent-Based Model of the 2020 International Policy Diffusion in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Particle Filter, 27 (2) 3, 2024'	5
Superiority Bias and Communication Noise Can Enhance Collective Problem Solving	5
From Local Actors to Leaf Carers: Companion Modeling for Rethinking Tree Protection in Senegal’s Groundnut Basin	5
BotSim: Mitigating the Formation of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots	5
On the Interplay of Gullibility, Plausibility, and Criticism: A Computational Model of Epistemic Vigilance	5
Job Done? Future Modeling Challenges After 20 Years of Work on Bounded-Confidence Models	4
Triadic Transitions of Opinion Dynamics in a Bounded Confidence Model	4
Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network	4
Social Agents? A Systematic Review of Social Identity Formalizations	4
Synthetic Social Media Influence Experimentation Via an Agentic Reinforcement Learning Large Language Model Bot	4
Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship	4
Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future	4
Network Structure Can Amplify Innovation Adoption and Polarization in Group-Structured Populations with Outgroup Aversion	4
Visual ODD: A Standardised Visualisation Illustrating the Narrative of Agent-Based Models	4
Confirmation Bias as a Mechanism to Focus Attention Enhances Signal Detection	4
Learning Interpretable Logic for Agent-Based Models from Domain Independent Primitives	4
DARTS: Evolving Resilience of the Global Food System to Production and Trade Shocks	4
The Role of Monetary Evaluation and Social Pressure Within the Residential Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Diffusion Model PVact	3
Exploring the Dynamics of the Specialty Insurance Market Using a Novel Discrete Event Simulation Framework: A Lloyd's of London Case Study	3
Opinion Dynamics Model Revealing Yet Undetected Cognitive Biases	3
Effect of Network Homophily and Partisanship on Social Media to “Oil Spill” Polarizations	3
Reliable and Efficient Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation	3
How Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias and Fear May Drive Societal Polarisation: An Opinion Dynamics Simulation of the Case of COVID-19 Vaccination	3
The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior	3
Using Machine Learning for Agent Specifications in Agent-Based Models and Simulations: A Critical Review and Guidelines	3
An Assimilation Anomaly: Averaging-Induced Reversal of Overall Opinion in Two Interacting Societies	3
A Methodology to Develop Agent-Based Models for Policy Support Via Qualitative Inquiry	3
Special Section on "Inverse Generative Social Science": Guest Editors’ Statement	2
An Agent-Based Model of Cultural Change for a Low-Carbon Transition	2
Communicating Agent-Based Models to Stakeholders: A Scoping Review	2
Spatial Disparities in Vaccination and the Risk of Infection in a Multi-Region Agent-Based Model of Epidemic Dynamics	2
Using Agent-Based Modelling and Reinforcement Learning to Study Hybrid Threats	2
What Matters Most in Supporting Cooperation, the Gossip Content or the Gossiper’s Intention? Simulating Motive Interpretation in Gossip Dynamics	2
Modelling Adaptive and Anticipatory Human Decision-Making in Complex Human-Environment Systems	2
How Polarization Extends to New Topics: An Agent-Based Model Derived from Experimental Data	2
Can Social Norms Explain Long-Term Trends in Alcohol Use? Insights from Inverse Generative Social Science	2
A Geospatial Bounded Confidence Model Including Mega-Influencers with an Application to Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	2
A Behavioural Agent-Based Model for Housing Markets: Impact of Financial Shocks in the UK	2
The Longitudinal Health, Income, and Employment Model (LHIEM): A Discrete-Time Microsimulation Model for Policy Analysis	2
Modelling Value Change: An Exploratory Approach	2
Evolutionary Model Discovery of Human Behavioral Factors Driving Decision-Making in Irrigation Experiments	2
Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-Based Approach	2