Peter Turchin

University of Oxford — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

57h-index14.1kcitations214works2.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(54), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(40), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(35), Plant and animal studies(20), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience(18)

Publications214 total

All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Social Science History·2025· 2 cited
A macroecological theory of social complexity
2025Open Access
A Structural-Demographic Analysis of Japan: 1945–2050
2025Open Access
CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises
2025Open Access
CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises
Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Exploring the relationship between sociopolitical complexity, ideology, and authority in world history
2024Open Access
The Spectrum of (Poly)Crisis: Exploring polycrises of the past to better understand our current and future risks
2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE
2024Open Access
Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE
2024Open Access
Landscape of fear: indirect effects of conflict can account for large-scale population declines in non-state societies
Journal of The Royal Society Interface·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Soil Fertility Depletion is not a Credible Mechanism for Population Boom/Bust Cycles in Early Agricultural Societies
Human Ecology·2024
All Crises are Unhappy in their Own Way: The role of societal instability in shaping the past
2024· 15 cited
War and the origins of Chinese civilization
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Empirically Testing Predictions of an Attrition Warfare Model for the War in Ukraine
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Moralizing Supernatural Punishment and Reward
Journal of Cognitive Historiography·2023
Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 67 citedOpen Access
Structural-demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) collapse in China
PLoS ONE·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Landscape of Fear: Indirect effects of conflict can account for large-scale population declines in non-state societies
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Empirically Testing and Refining Structural Demographic Theory: A Methodological Guide
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Explaining population booms and busts in Mid-Holocene Europe
Scientific Reports·2023· 26 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen P. Ellner(7), Harvey Whitehouse(5), Ilkka Hanski(4), Bruce E. Kendall(4), Cheryl J. Briggs(4), William W. Murdoch(4), Edward McCauley(4), Simon N. Wood(4), Thomas E. Currie(4), Pieter François(4), Heikki Henttonen(3), Edward Turner(3), Peter N. Peregrine(3), Erkki Korpimäki(2), Lauri Oksanen(2), Roger M. Nisbet(2), Sergey Gavrilets(2), Kevin Feeney(2), Daniel Mullins(2), Daniël Hoyer(2)