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Researcher · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · France

Alain Barrat

Alain Barrat publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Modeling and Simulation and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8683-269X OpenAlex
World rank
#33,025
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#4,290
of 324,115
Works
354
Citations
29k
Citations per work
81.5
h-index
71
i10-index 169Top 0.4% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Alain Barrat

What does Alain Barrat research?

Alain Barrat's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (31%), Social Sciences (9%), Mathematics (6%).

Physical Sciences: 165 works · 46.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 111 works · 31.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 111 works · 31.4% of their workMathematics: 23 works · 6.5% of their workModeling and Simulation: 23 works · 6.5% of their workMaterials Science: 17 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 17 works · 4.8% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 4.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 14 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 158 works · 44.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 8.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 8.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 5.1% of their workTransportation: 13 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Barrat354works
Physical Sciences47%Social Sciences9%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy11131.4%
    2. Mathematics236.5%
    3. Materials Science174.8%
    4. Engineering144.0%
  2. Everything else15844.6%
    1. Social Sciences318.7%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31% of their works
  2. 2Modeling and Simulation6% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Transportation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Barrat's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Community Structure, Scale-Free Networks, Bounded Confidence, Opinion Dynamics, COVID-19 and Modeling.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Network Dynamics2692 topics
  2. Social Influence2692 topics
  3. Community Structure1601 topic
  4. Scale-Free Networks1601 topic
  5. Bounded Confidence1091 topic
  6. Opinion Dynamics1091 topic
  7. COVID-19601 topic
  8. Modeling601 topic
  9. Glass Transition431 topic
  10. Supercooled Liquids431 topic
  11. Discrete Particle Simulation351 topic
  12. Granular Flows351 topic
  13. GPS Data301 topic
  14. Human Mobility301 topic
  15. Altruism281 topic
  16. Cooperation281 topic
  17. Critical Phenomena261 topic
  18. Phase Transitions261 topic

Where does Alain Barrat work?

Alain Barrat's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

How many publications and citations does Alain Barrat have?

OpenAlex counts 354 works and 28,847 citations for Alain Barrat, an h-index of 71, ranking #33,025 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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