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Researcher · Northeastern University · United States

Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Modeling and Simulation and Epidemiology, on topics such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Complex Network Analysis Techniques and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

ORCID 0000-0003-3419-4205 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,820
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,312
of 1,627,098
Works
564
Citations
86k
Citations per work
152.2
h-index
123
i10-index 316Top 0.1% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Alessandro Vespignani

What does Alessandro Vespignani research?

Alessandro Vespignani's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (23%), Medicine (15%), Mathematics (14%).

Everything else: 248 works · 43.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 211 works · 37.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 131 works · 23.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 103 works · 18.2% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 29 works · 5.1% of their workMathematics: 80 works · 14.1% of their workModeling and Simulation: 80 works · 14.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 82 works · 14.6% of their workMedicine: 82 works · 14.6% of their workEpidemiology: 47 works · 8.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 35 works · 6.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 23 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAlessandroVespignani564works
Physical Sciences37%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences4%

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. Everything else24843.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy13123.3%
    2. Mathematics8014.1%
    1. Medicine8214.6%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance234.1%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics18% of their works
  2. 2Modeling and Simulation14% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology8% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alessandro Vespignani's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Network Dynamics2532 topics
  2. Social Influence2532 topics
  3. Epidemiology2462 topics
  4. COVID-192041 topic
  5. Modeling2041 topic
  6. Community Structure1631 topic
  7. Scale-Free Networks1631 topic
  8. Bounded Confidence901 topic
  9. Opinion Dynamics901 topic
  10. Pandemic822 topics
  11. Critical Phenomena741 topic
  12. Phase Transitions741 topic
  13. Digital Epidemiology651 topic
  14. Disease Surveillance651 topic
  15. Influenza421 topic
  16. Virus421 topic
  17. Coronavirus401 topic
  18. SARS-CoV-2401 topic
  19. Interacting Particle Systems331 topic
  20. Scaling Limits331 topic

Where does Alessandro Vespignani work?

Alessandro Vespignani's main affiliation in the publication record is Northeastern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alessandro Vespignani have?

OpenAlex counts 564 works and 85,830 citations for Alessandro Vespignani, an h-index of 123, ranking #3,820 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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