Matjaž Perc

Matjaž Perc is Professor of Physics at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, and director of the Complex Systems Center Maribor. He is member of Academia Europaea^[1] and among top 1% most cited physicists according to Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers.^[2] He is Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals,^[3] and Distinguished Referee of EPL.^[4] He received the Young Scientist Award for Socio-and Econophysics in 2015.^[5] His research has been widely reported in the media and professional literature.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Biography

Matjaž Perc studied physics at the

He has done research on the evolution of moral and double moral standards,[38] the evolution of the most common English words and phrases,^[39] and the rise and fall of new words.^[40] He has discovered self-organization in the way how major scientific ideas propagate across the physics literature,^[41] which culminated in a simple mathematical regularity that is able to identify scientific memes.^[42]

In addition to his various original contributions, Matjaž Perc has provided the research community with several reviews and introductory articles on

• 2018 received the Zois Award (named after Sigmund Zois).
• 2017 received
  USERN Prize
  in social sciences, for "Transitions Towards Cooperation in Human Societies".
• 2009 received the Zois Certificate of Recognition. Being only 30 years old at the time, he was the youngest receiver of the Zois certificate ever.

Publications

For a full list see Matjaž Perc's ORCID page.

• Spatial coherence resonance in excitable media, Matjaž Perc, Phys. Rev. E 72, 016207 (2005) [1]
• Coherence resonance in a spatial prisoner's dilemma game, Matjaž Perc, New J. Phys. 8, 22 (2006) [2]
• Transition from Gaussian to Lévy distributions of stochastic payoff variations in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game, Matjaž Perc, Phys. Rev. E 75, 022101 (2007) [3]
• Noise-guided evolution within cyclical interactions, Matjaž Perc and Attila Szolnoki, New J. Phys. 9, 267 (2007) [4]
• Social diversity and promotion of cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game, Matjaž Perc and Attila Szolnoki, Phys. Rev. E 77, 011904 (2008) [5]
• Making new connections towards cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc and Zsuzsa Danku, EPL 84, 50007 (2008) [6]
• Topology-independent impact of noise on cooperation in spatial public goods games, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc and György Szabó, Phys. Rev. E 80, 056109 (2009) [7]
• Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks, Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc, EPL 86, 30007 (2009) [8]
• Coevolutionary games - A mini review, Matjaž Perc and Attila Szolnoki, BioSystems 99, 109-125 (2010) [9]
• Does strong heterogeneity promote cooperation by group interactions?, Matjaž Perc, New J. Phys. 13, 123027 (2011) [10]
• Defense mechanisms of empathetic players in the spatial ultimatum game, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc and György Szabó, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078701 (2012) [11]
• Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries, Matjaž Perc, J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 3323-3328 (2012) [12] (tables containing the most common English words and phrases are here)
• Self-organization of punishment in structured populations, Matjaž Perc and Attila Szolnoki, New J. Phys. 14, 043013 (2012) [13]
• Evolutionary advantages of adaptive rewarding, Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc, New J. Phys. 14, 093016 (2012) [14]
• Correlation of positive and negative reciprocity fails to confer an evolutionary advantage: Phase transitions to elementary strategies, Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc, Phys. Rev. X 3, 041021 (2013) [15]
• Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: A review, Matjaž Perc,
  Jesús Gómez Gardeñes, Attila Szolnoki, Luis M. Floría and Yamir Moreno, J. R. Soc. Interface 10, 20120997 (2013) [16]
• Inheritance patterns in citation networks reveal scientific memes, Tobias Kuhn, Matjaž Perc and Dirk Helbing, Phys. Rev. X 4, 041036 (2014) [17] (see also the Physics Focus story here)
• Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games, Zhen Wang, Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc, Scientific Reports 3, 1183 (2013) [18]
• Self-organization of progress across the century of physics, Matjaž Perc, Scientific Reports 3, 1720 (2013) [19] (the n-gram viewer for publications of the American Physical Society is here)
• Antisocial pool rewarding does not deter public cooperation, Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc, Proc. R. Soc. B 282, 20151975 (2015) [20]
• The Matthew effect in empirical data, Matjaž Perc, J. R. Soc. Interface 11, 20140378 (2014) [21]
• Saving human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute, Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Ulf Blanke, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Mehdi Moussaid, Anders Johansson, Jens Krause, Sebastian Schutte and Matjaž Perc, J. Stat. Phys. 158, 735-781 (2015) [22]
• Statistical physics of crime: A review, Maria R. D'Orsogna and Matjaž Perc, Phys. Life Rev. 12, 1-21 (2015) [23]

Editorial work

Matjaž Perc is editorial board member at