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Researcher · Indiana University Bloomington · United States

Santo Fortunato

Santo Fortunato publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Molecular Biology and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, on topics such as Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

ORCID 0000-0002-9039-4730 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,609
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#11,585
of 1,627,098
Works
210
Citations
40k
Citations per work
190.4
h-index
60
i10-index 109Top 0.9% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Santo Fortunato

What does Santo Fortunato research?

Santo Fortunato's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (41%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Decision Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 95 works · 45.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 86 works · 40.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 71 works · 33.8% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 8 works · 3.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 3.3% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 4.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 91 works · 43.5% of their workLife Sciences: 13 works · 6.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 6.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 13 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 5.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 11 works · 5.1% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 11 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKSanto Fortunato210works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences5%

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 Astronomy8640.8%
    2. Computer Science94.5%
  2. Everything else9143.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology136.1%
    1. Decision Sciences115.1%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics34% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology6% of their works
  3. 3Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty5% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Santo Fortunato's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Network Analysis, Community Structure, Scale-Free Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Network Dynamics1712 topics
  2. Social Influence1712 topics
  3. Network Analysis1102 topics
  4. Community Structure991 topic
  5. Scale-Free Networks991 topic
  6. Agent-Based Modeling862 topics
  7. Bounded Confidence721 topic
  8. Opinion Dynamics721 topic
  9. Bibliometric Analysis221 topic
  10. Research Evaluation221 topic
  11. Critical Phenomena181 topic
  12. Phase Transitions181 topic
  13. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis171 topic
  14. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks171 topic
  15. Econophysics141 topic
  16. Multifractal Analysis141 topic
  17. Interacting Particle Systems121 topic
  18. Scaling Limits121 topic
  19. Mental Disorders111 topic
  20. Psychopathology111 topic

Where does Santo Fortunato work?

Santo Fortunato's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana University Bloomington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Santo Fortunato have?

OpenAlex counts 210 works and 39,979 citations for Santo Fortunato, an h-index of 60, ranking #30,609 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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