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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Method for Emerging Empirical Age Structures in Agent-Based Models with Exogenous Survival Probabilities	30
Effect of Policy Implementation on Energy Retrofit Behavior and Energy Consumption in a Simulated Neighborhood	28
Agent-Based Modelling of Mpox Infection Dynamics: Simulating Disease Transmission and Control Strategies	22
AGENTBLOCKS: A Community Platform for Sharing, Comparing, and Improving Reusable Building Blocks for (Agent-Based) Models	20
Finance and Market Concentration Using Agent-Based Modeling: Evidence from South Korea	18
Scientific Disagreements and the Diagnosticity of Evidence: How Too Much Data May Lead to Polarization	16
An Agent-Based Model for Assessing the Resilience of Drug Trafficking Organizations to Law Enforcement Interventions	16
Equity, Urgency, Affordability: An ABM Exploration of Design Principles for Collective Action Institutions in Times of Crisis	12
Exploring the Influence of Open-Mindedness and Social Identity on Opinion Polarization in a Modified Hegselmann-Krause Model	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	11
Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers	11
An Agent-Based Model of Issue Alignment and Polarization Based on the Menu-Independent and Menu-Dependent Influences Model	10
Equation-Based Versus Agent-Based Models: Why Not Embrace Both for an Efficient Parameter Calibration?	9
Editorial: Modelling Values in Social, Technical, and Ecological Systems	8
Social Simulation Models as Refuting Machines	8
Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach	8
Sharing Risk Under Heterogeneity: Exploring Participation Patterns in Situations of Incomplete Information	8
An Agent-Based Model to Assess Possible Interventions for Large Shigellosis Outbreaks	8
Egalitarian Sharing Explains Food Distributions in a Small-Scale Society	8
An Agent-Based Model of Motor Insurance Customer Behaviour in the UK with Word of Mouth	8
Mechanisms Behind Public School Enrollment Trends in School Choice Systems: The Case of Chile	7
Structural Effects of Agent Heterogeneity in Agent-Based Models: Lessons from the Social Spread of COVID-19	6
[In]Credible Models – Verification, Validation & Accreditation of Agent-Based Models to Support Policy-Making	6
When "I" Becomes "We": Modelling Dynamic Identity on Autonomous Agents	6
Fear, Behaviour, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A City-Scale Agent-Based Model Using Socio-Demographic and Spatial Map Data	6

The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model	6
The Ethics of Agent-Based Social Simulation	6
Collecting Data in an Immersive Video Environment to Set up an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrians’ Compliance with COVID-Related Interventions	6
An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Pedestrian Evacuation Based on Bayesian Nash Equilibrium	6
A Microsimulation Model of Behaviour Change Calibrated to Reversal Learning Data	6
Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI Support for Agent-Based Social Simulation Model Design	6
From Local Actors to Leaf Carers: Companion Modeling for Rethinking Tree Protection in Senegal’s Groundnut Basin	5
Synthetic Social Media Influence Experimentation Via an Agentic Reinforcement Learning Large Language Model Bot	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	5
Visual ODD: A Standardised Visualisation Illustrating the Narrative of Agent-Based Models	4
Triadic Transitions of Opinion Dynamics in a Bounded Confidence Model	4
Social Agents? A Systematic Review of Social Identity Formalizations	4
Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network	4
On the Interplay of Gullibility, Plausibility, and Criticism: A Computational Model of Epistemic Vigilance	4
Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship	4
Job Done? Future Modeling Challenges After 20 Years of Work on Bounded-Confidence Models	4
The Role of Reinforcement Learning in the Emergence of Conventions: Simulation Experiments with the Repeated Volunteer’s Dilemma	4
Superiority Bias and Communication Noise Can Enhance Collective Problem Solving	4
Confirmation Bias as a Mechanism to Focus Attention Enhances Signal Detection	4
Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future	4
Learning Interpretable Logic for Agent-Based Models from Domain Independent Primitives	4
ReMoTe-S. Residential Mobility of Tenants in Switzerland: An Agent-Based Model	3
Opinion Dynamics Model Revealing Yet Undetected Cognitive Biases	3
Can Social Norms Explain Long-Term Trends in Alcohol Use? Insights from Inverse Generative Social Science	3
A Geospatial Bounded Confidence Model Including Mega-Influencers with an Application to Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	3
An Assimilation Anomaly: Averaging-Induced Reversal of Overall Opinion in Two Interacting Societies	3
An Agent-Based Model to Support Infection Control Strategies at School	3
Exploring the Dynamics of the Specialty Insurance Market Using a Novel Discrete Event Simulation Framework: A Lloyd's of London Case Study	3
Conflicting Information and Compliance with COVID-19 Behavioral Recommendations	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	3
DARTS: Evolving Resilience of the Global Food System to Production and Trade Shocks	3
Deriving an Opinion Dynamics Model from Experimental Data	3
Using Machine Learning for Agent Specifications in Agent-Based Models and Simulations: A Critical Review and Guidelines	3
The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior	3
How Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias and Fear May Drive Societal Polarisation: An Opinion Dynamics Simulation of the Case of COVID-19 Vaccination	3
Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-Based Approach	3
Evolutionary Model Discovery of Human Behavioral Factors Driving Decision-Making in Irrigation Experiments	3
Network Structure Can Amplify Innovation Adoption and Polarization in Group-Structured Populations with Outgroup Aversion	3
Reliable and Efficient Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation	3
Arguments as Drivers of Issue Polarisation in Debates Among Artificial Agents	3
Particle Swarm Optimization for Calibration in Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling	2
An Agent-Based Model of Cultural Change for a Low-Carbon Transition	2
Modelling Adaptive and Anticipatory Human Decision-Making in Complex Human-Environment Systems	2
Communicating Agent-Based Models to Stakeholders: A Scoping Review	2
Generation of Synthetic Populations in Social Simulations: A Review of Methods and Practices	2
Spatial Disparities in Vaccination and the Risk of Infection in a Multi-Region Agent-Based Model of Epidemic Dynamics	2
What Matters Most in Supporting Cooperation, the Gossip Content or the Gossiper’s Intention? Simulating Motive Interpretation in Gossip Dynamics	2
The Longitudinal Health, Income, and Employment Model (LHIEM): A Discrete-Time Microsimulation Model for Policy Analysis	2

Using Agent-Based Modelling and Reinforcement Learning to Study Hybrid Threats	2
Hybrid Approach for Modelling the Uptake of Residential Solar PV Systems, with Case Study Application in Melbourne, Australia	2
A Comparative Study on Apprenticeship Systems Using Agent-Based Simulation	2
How Culture Influences the Management of a Pandemic: A Simulation of the COVID-19 Crisis	2