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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Method for Emerging Empirical Age Structures in Agent-Based Models with Exogenous Survival Probabilities	28
Agent-Based Modelling of Mpox Infection Dynamics: Simulating Disease Transmission and Control Strategies	21
Effect of Policy Implementation on Energy Retrofit Behavior and Energy Consumption in a Simulated Neighborhood	18
Equity, Urgency, Affordability: An ABM Exploration of Design Principles for Collective Action Institutions in Times of Crisis	16
An Agent-Based Model for Assessing the Resilience of Drug Trafficking Organizations to Law Enforcement Interventions	16
Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers	15
Finance and Market Concentration Using Agent-Based Modeling: Evidence from South Korea	12
Scientific Disagreements and the Diagnosticity of Evidence: How Too Much Data May Lead to Polarization	11
Corrigendum to 'Arguments as Drivers of Issue Polarisation in Debates Among Artificial Agents', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 25 (1) 4, 2022	9
Equation-Based Versus Agent-Based Models: Why Not Embrace Both for an Efficient Parameter Calibration?	9
Exploring the Influence of Open-Mindedness and Social Identity on Opinion Polarization in a Modified Hegselmann-Krause Model	8
An Agent-Based Model of Issue Alignment and Polarization Based on the Menu-Independent and Menu-Dependent Influences Model	8
An Agent-Based Model of Motor Insurance Customer Behaviour in the UK with Word of Mouth	7
Social Simulation Models as Refuting Machines	7
Egalitarian Sharing Explains Food Distributions in a Small-Scale Society	7
An Agent-Based Model to Assess Possible Interventions for Large Shigellosis Outbreaks	6
Editorial: Modelling Values in Social, Technical, and Ecological Systems	6
The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model	6
Mechanisms Behind Public School Enrollment Trends in School Choice Systems: The Case of Chile	6
When "I" Becomes "We": Modelling Dynamic Identity on Autonomous Agents	6
Sharing Risk Under Heterogeneity: Exploring Participation Patterns in Situations of Incomplete Information	6
[In]Credible Models – Verification, Validation & Accreditation of Agent-Based Models to Support Policy-Making	6
The Ethics of Agent-Based Social Simulation	6
An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Pedestrian Evacuation Based on Bayesian Nash Equilibrium	5
Structural Effects of Agent Heterogeneity in Agent-Based Models: Lessons from the Social Spread of COVID-19	5

A Microsimulation Model of Behaviour Change Calibrated to Reversal Learning Data	5
Fear, Behaviour, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A City-Scale Agent-Based Model Using Socio-Demographic and Spatial Map Data	5
Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design	5
Calibrating Agent-Based Models Using Uncertainty Quantification Methods	5
An Empirical and Simulation Investigation of Bounded Confidence and Negative Influence in Opinion Dynamics Using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model	4
Job Done? Future Modeling Challenges After 20 Years of Work on Bounded-Confidence Models	4
Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship	4
Synthetic Social Media Influence Experimentation Via an Agentic Reinforcement Learning Large Language Model Bot	4
Superiority Bias and Communication Noise Can Enhance Collective Problem Solving	4
Visual ODD: A Standardised Visualisation Illustrating the Narrative of Agent-Based Models	4
Collecting Data in an Immersive Video Environment to Set up an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrians’ Compliance with COVID-Related Interventions	4
On the Interplay of Gullibility, Plausibility, and Criticism: A Computational Model of Epistemic Vigilance	4
Confirmation Bias as a Mechanism to Focus Attention Enhances Signal Detection	4
The Role of Reinforcement Learning in the Emergence of Conventions: Simulation Experiments with the Repeated Volunteer’s Dilemma	3
Social Agents? A Systematic Review of Social Identity Formalizations	3
An Agent-Based Model to Support Infection Control Strategies at School	3
An Assimilation Anomaly: Averaging-Induced Reversal of Overall Opinion in Two Interacting Societies	3
Opinion Dynamics Model Revealing Yet Undetected Cognitive Biases	3
Reliable and Efficient Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation	3
DARTS: Evolving Resilience of the Global Food System to Production and Trade Shocks	3
Triadic Transitions of Opinion Dynamics in a Bounded Confidence Model	3
Network Structure Can Amplify Innovation Adoption and Polarization in Group-Structured Populations with Outgroup Aversion	3
Using Machine Learning for Agent Specifications in Agent-Based Models and Simulations: A Critical Review and Guidelines	3
Arguments as Drivers of Issue Polarisation in Debates Among Artificial Agents	3
The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior	3
Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network	3
Learning Interpretable Logic for Agent-Based Models from Domain Independent Primitives	3
Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future	3
Deriving an Opinion Dynamics Model from Experimental Data	3
Conflicting Information and Compliance with COVID-19 Behavioral Recommendations	3
Exploring the Dynamics of the Specialty Insurance Market Using a Novel Discrete Event Simulation Framework: A Lloyd's of London Case Study	3
How Culture Influences the Management of a Pandemic: A Simulation of the COVID-19 Crisis	2
ReMoTe-S. Residential Mobility of Tenants in Switzerland: An Agent-Based Model	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
An Agent-Based Model of Cultural Change for a Low-Carbon Transition	2
Generation of Synthetic Populations in Social Simulations: A Review of Methods and Practices	2
The Longitudinal Health, Income, and Employment Model (LHIEM): A Discrete-Time Microsimulation Model for Policy Analysis	2
A Methodology to Develop Agent-Based Models for Policy Support Via Qualitative Inquiry	2
Particle Swarm Optimization for Calibration in Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling	2
A Geospatial Bounded Confidence Model Including Mega-Influencers with an Application to Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Special Section on "Inverse Generative Social Science": Guest Editors’ Statement	2
Hybrid Approach for Modelling the Uptake of Residential Solar PV Systems, with Case Study Application in Melbourne, Australia	2
A Behavioural Agent-Based Model for Housing Markets: Impact of Financial Shocks in the UK	2
Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-Based Approach	2
How Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias and Fear May Drive Societal Polarisation: An Opinion Dynamics Simulation of the Case of COVID-19 Vaccination	2
Evolutionary Model Discovery of Human Behavioral Factors Driving Decision-Making in Irrigation Experiments	2
Can Social Norms Explain Long-Term Trends in Alcohol Use? Insights from Inverse Generative Social Science	2
What Matters Most in Supporting Cooperation, the Gossip Content or the Gossiper’s Intention? Simulating Motive Interpretation in Gossip Dynamics	2
How Polarization Extends to New Topics: An Agent-Based Model Derived from Experimental Data	2