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Researcher · IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca · Italy

Michela Del Vicario

Michela Del Vicario publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Communication, on topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence and Complex Network Analysis Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-8561-4364 OpenAlex
World rank
#328,869
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#8,446
of 242,206
Works
31
Citations
5.7k
Citations per work
184.6
h-index
19
i10-index 23Top 20% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Michela Del Vicario

What does Michela Del Vicario research?

Michela Del Vicario's work is mostly in Social Sciences (48%), Physics and Astronomy (46%), Computer Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 48.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 45.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 14 works · 45.6% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.3% of their workInformation Systems: 1 works · 2.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 0 works · 1.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 48.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 47.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 32.2% of their workCommunication: 5 works · 15.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 works · 1.1% of their workMarketing: 0 works · 1.1% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMichela DelVicario31works
Physical Sciences49%Social Sciences49%

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 Astronomy1445.6%
    2. Computer Science13.3%
    1. Social Sciences1547.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting01.1%
  3. Everything else12.2%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics46% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  3. 3Communication16% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems2% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence1% of their works
  6. 6Marketing1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michela Del Vicario's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Polarization, Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Social Media, Fake News, Misinformation, Bounded Confidence and Opinion Dynamics.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Polarization472 topics
  2. Network Dynamics412 topics
  3. Social Influence412 topics
  4. Social Media414 topics
  5. Fake News241 topic
  6. Misinformation241 topic
  7. Bounded Confidence231 topic
  8. Opinion Dynamics231 topic
  9. Community Structure181 topic
  10. Scale-Free Networks181 topic
  11. Digital Divide121 topic
  12. Political Participation121 topic
  13. Media Bias41 topic
  14. Political Economy41 topic
  15. Machine Learning32 topics
  16. Phishing21 topic
  17. Spam Detection21 topic
  18. Detection11 topic
  19. Hate Speech11 topic
  20. Marketing Strategies11 topic
  21. Retail Economics11 topic

Where does Michela Del Vicario work?

Michela Del Vicario's main affiliation in the publication record is IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Michela Del Vicario have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 5,722 citations for Michela Del Vicario, an h-index of 19, ranking #328,869 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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