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20132022
most citedSocial tipping processes for sustainability: An analytical framework

214 citations · 877 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

q-bio.QM2022★ 4 cited

Evidence for positive long- and short-term effects of vaccinations against COVID-19 in wearable sensor metrics -- Insights from the German Corona Data Donation Project

Marc Wiedermann, Annika H. Rose, Benjamin F. Maier +3

Vaccines are among the most powerful tools used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. They are highly effective against infection and substantially reduce the risk of severe disease, ho…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 5 cited

Dose-response functions and surrogate models for exploring social contagion in the Copenhagen Networks Study

Jonathan F. Donges, Jakob H. Lochner, Niklas H. Kitzmann +4

Spreading dynamics and complex contagion processes on networks are important mechanisms underlying the emergence of critical transitions, tipping points and other nonlinear phenome…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 7 cited

A dynamic network model of societal complexity and resilience inspired by Tainter's theory of collapse

Florian Schunck, Marc Wiedermann, Jobst Heitzig +1

In recent years, several global events have severely disrupted economies and social structures, undermining confidence in the resilience of modern societies. While empirical eviden…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 15 cited

Anticipation-induced social tipping -- Can the environment be stabilised by social dynamics?

Paul Manuel Müller, Jobst Heitzig, Jürgen Kurths +2

In the past decades human activities caused global Earth system changes, e.g., climate change or biodiversity loss. Simultaneously, these associated impacts have increased environm…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 214 cited

Social tipping processes for sustainability: An analytical framework

Ricarda Winkelmann, Jonathan F. Donges, E. Keith Smith +7

Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development goals. Rece…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 11 cited

Optimization of coupling and global collapse in diffusively coupled socio-ecological resource exploitation networks

Tanja Holstein, Marc Wiedermann, Jürgen Kurths

Single- and multi-layer complex networks have been proven as a powerful tool to study the dynamics within social, technological,or natural systems. An often observed common goal th…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 1 cited

Domino Effects in the Earth System -- The potential role of wanted tipping points

Marc Wiedermann, Ricarda Winkelmann, Jonathan F. Donges +4

Vital parts of the climate system, such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, are at risk even within the aspired aims of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 --…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 55 cited

A network-based microfoundation of Granovetter's threshold model for social tipping

Marc Wiedermann, E. Keith Smith, Jobst Heitzig +1

Social tipping, where minorities trigger larger populations to engage in collective action, has been suggested as one key aspect in addressing contemporary global challenges. Here,…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 56 cited

Earth system modeling with endogenous and dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE open World-Earth modeling framework

Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig, Wolfram Barfuss +9

Analysis of Earth system dynamics in the Anthropocene requires to explicitly take into account the increasing magnitude of processes operating in human societies, their cultures, e…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 21 cited

The physics of governance networks: critical transitions in contagion dynamics on multilayer adaptive networks with application to the sustainable use of renewable resources

Fabian Geier, Wolfram Barfuss, Marc Wiedermann +2

Adaptive networks are a versatile approach to model phenomena such as contagion and spreading dynamics, critical transitions and structure formation that emerge from the dynamic co…

physics.space-ph2018★ 33 cited

Recurrence based quantification of dynamical complexity in the Earth's magnetosphere at geospace storm timescales

Reik V. Donner, Georgios Balasis, Veronika Stolbova +3

Magnetic storms are the most prominent global manifestations of out-of-equilibrium magnetospheric dynamics. Investigating the dynamical complexity exhibited by geomagnetic observab…

physics.data-an2017★ 48 cited

Mapping and discrimination of networks in the complexity-entropy plane

Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths +1

Complex networks are usually characterized in terms of their topological, spatial, or information-theoretic properties and combinations of the associated metrics are used to discri…

physics.ao-ph2017

Differential imprints of distinct ENSO flavors in global patterns of very low and high seasonal precipitation

Marc Wiedermann, Jonatan F. Siegmund, Jonathan F. Donges +1

The effects of El Niño's two distinct flavors, East Pacific (EP) and Central Pacific (CP)/Modoki El Niño, on global climate variability have been studied intensively in recent year…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 42 cited

Zealotry Effects on Opinion Dynamics in the Adaptive Voter Model

Pascal P. Klamser, Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges +1

The adaptive voter model has been widely studied as a conceptual model for opinion formation processes on time-evolving social networks. Past studies on the effect of zealots, i.e.…

physics.data-an2016★ 53 cited

A climate network-based index to discriminate different types of El Niño and La Niña

Marc Wiedermann, Alexander Radebach, Jonathan F. Donges +2

El Niño exhibits distinct Eastern Pacific (EP) and Central Pacific (CP) types which are commonly, but not always consistently, distinguished from each other by different signatures…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 42 cited

Spatial network surrogates for disentangling complex system structure from spatial embedding of nodes

Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths +1

Networks with nodes embedded in a metric space have gained increasing interest in recent years. The effects of spatial embedding on the networks' structural characteristics, howeve…

physics.data-an2015★ 134 cited

Unified functional network and nonlinear time series analysis for complex systems science: The pyunicorn package

Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig, Boyan Beronov +9

We introduce the \texttt{pyunicorn} (Pythonic unified complex network and recurrence analysis toolbox) open source software package for applying and combining modern methods of dat…

physics.ao-ph2015★ 34 cited

Hierarchical structures in Northern Hemispheric extratropical winter ocean-atmosphere interactions

Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Dörthe Handorf +2

In recent years extensive studies on the Earth's climate system have been carried out by means of advanced complex network statistics. The great majority of these studies, however,…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 56 cited

Macroscopic description of complex adaptive networks co-evolving with dynamic node states

Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig +2

In many real-world complex systems, the time-evolution of the network's structure and the dynamic state of its nodes are closely entangled. Here, we study opinion formation and imi…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 46 cited

Node-weighted interacting network measures improve the representation of real-world complex systems

Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig +1

Network theory provides a rich toolbox consisting of methods, measures, and models for studying the structure and dynamics of complex systems found in nature, society, or technolog…