Standout Papers

The Spread of Obesity in ... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2009 2008 2012 2008 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
    2007 3.3k citations Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  2. Computational Social Science
    2009 2.1k citations David Lazer, Alex Pentland et al. Science profile →
  3. The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network
    2008 1.6k citations Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  4. A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
    2012 1.6k citations Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss et al. Nature profile →
  5. Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study
    2008 1.2k citations James H. Fowler, Nicholas A. Christakis BMJ profile →
  6. Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior
    2012 779 citations Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler Statistics in Medicine profile →
  7. Alone in the crowd: The structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network.
    2009 539 citations John T. Cacioppo, James H. Fowler et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  8. Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks
    2010 529 citations James H. Fowler, Nicholas A. Christakis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers
    2012 462 citations Coren L. Apicella, Frank W. Marlowe et al. Nature profile →
  10. Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
    2016 446 citations Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen et al. Science Advances profile →
  11. The evolution of overconfidence
    2011 368 citations Dominic Johnson, James H. Fowler Nature profile →
  12. Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks
    2014 327 citations Lorenzo Coviello, Yunkyu Sohn et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Immediate Impact

52 from Science/Nature 104 hit
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Citing Papers

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3 intermediate papers

Works of James H. Fowler being referenced

Nighttime temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate
2017
Climate change may alter human physical activity patterns
2017
and 2 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
James H. Fowler 8.8k 4.3k 2.8k 2.6k 2.6k 195 23.2k
Tom A. B. Snijders 7.2k 0.8× 4.9k 1.1× 3.2k 1.2× 2.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 212 22.3k
Stanley Wasserman 10.5k 1.2× 9.9k 2.3× 3.3k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 102 43.6k
Nicholas A. Christakis 8.6k 1.0× 3.9k 0.9× 2.8k 1.0× 7.2k 2.8× 2.5k 1.0× 269 34.5k
Thomas W. Valente 6.4k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 6.1k 2.3× 1.2k 0.5× 230 24.9k
Lynn Smith‐Lovin 8.9k 1.0× 3.1k 0.7× 2.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 888 0.3× 67 17.2k
Stephen P. Borgatti 8.0k 0.9× 6.1k 1.4× 1.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 129 27.6k
James G. Scott 4.8k 0.5× 2.0k 0.5× 5.6k 2.0× 3.1k 1.2× 2.3k 0.9× 730 36.5k
Léon Festinger 16.7k 1.9× 1.3k 0.3× 10.8k 3.8× 2.4k 0.9× 3.7k 1.4× 69 40.7k
Barry Wellman 12.0k 1.4× 2.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 426 0.2× 178 21.3k
Tom Postmes 11.0k 1.2× 868 0.2× 7.1k 2.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 215 18.3k

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