Alain Barrat

27.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
170 papers, 17.3k citations indexed

About

Alain Barrat is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Modeling and Simulation and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Barrat has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 17.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 41 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 32 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alain Barrat's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (91 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (69 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (41 papers). Alain Barrat is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (91 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (69 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (41 papers). Alain Barrat collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Alain Barrat's co-authors include Alessandro Vespignani, Marc Barthélemy, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Vittoria Colizza, Ciro Cattuto, Martin Weigt, Jean-François Pinton, Wouter Van den Broeck, Vittorio Loreto and Juliette Stehlé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alain Barrat

164 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The architecture of complex weighted networks

2004 2.8k citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks

2008 1.7k citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. profile →
The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics

2006 783 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
On the properties of small-world network models

2000 553 citations Alain Barrat et al. profile →
Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks

2010 535 citations Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat et al. profile →
The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

2021 520 citations Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico et al. Nature Physics profile →
What's in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

2010 517 citations Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto et al. profile →
Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks

2004 512 citations Marc Barthélemy, Alain Barrat et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions

2007 509 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat et al. profile →
High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School

2011 491 citations Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto et al. profile →
Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys

2015 353 citations Alain Barrat et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Modeling the interplay between disease spread, behaviors, and disease perception with a data-driven approach 2024 ·Mathematical Biosciences ·(unknown), Alain Barrat, Daniela Paolotti	1
2	The temporal dynamics of group interactions in higher-order social networks 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Iacopo Iacopini, Márton Karsai, Alain Barrat	26
3	Detecting periodic time scales of changes in temporal networks 2024 ·Journal of Complex Networks ·(unknown), Alain Barrat, Márton Karsai	4
4	Modeling framework unifying contact and social networks 2023 ·Physical review. E ·(unknown), Mathieu Génois, Alain Barrat	6
5	Distinguishing Simple and Complex Contagion Processes on Networks 2023 ·Physical Review Letters ·Giulia Cencetti, (unknown), (unknown), Alain Barrat	22
6	Influential groups for seeding and sustaining nonlinear contagion in heterogeneous hypergraphs 2022 ·Communications Physics ·Guillaume St-Onge, Iacopo Iacopini, Vito Latora, Alain Barrat, Giovanni Petri, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert‐Dufresne	65
7	Group interactions modulate critical mass dynamics in social convention 2022 ·Communications Physics ·Iacopo Iacopini, Giovanni Petri, Andrea Baronchelli, Alain Barrat	38
8	A Framework for the Identification of Human Vertical Displacement Activity Based on Multi-Sensor Data 2022 ·IEEE Sensors Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bige Tunçer, Alain Barrat, Roland Bouffanais	5
9	The temporal rich club phenomenon 2022 ·Nature Physics ·(unknown), Demian Battaglia, Alain Barrat	21
10	Initiating scientific collaborations across career levels and disciplines – a network analysis on behavioral data 2021 ·International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning ·Julia Eberle, Karsten Stegmann, Alain Barrat, Frank Fischer, Kristine Lund	10
11	Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data 2021 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Mikko Kivelä, Sune Lehmann, Jari Saramäki	59
12	Predicting partially observed processes on temporal networks by Dynamics-Aware Node Embeddings (DyANE) 2021 ·EPJ Data Science ·Koya Sato, (unknown), Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto	6
13	Anatomy of digital contact tracing: Role of age, transmission setting, adoption, and case detection 2021 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Livio Bioglio, Francesco Pinotti, Pierre‐Yves Boëlle, Alain Barrat, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto	56
14	The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Physics ·Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico, Alain Barrat, Ginestra Bianconi, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Benedetta Franceschiello, Iacopo Iacopini, Sonia Kéfi, Vito Latora, Yamir Moreno, Micah M. Murray, Tiago P. Peixoto, Francesco Vaccarino, Giovanni Petri	520
15	Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Giulia Cencetti, Gabriele Santin, (unknown), (unknown), Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Sune Lehmann, Marcel Salathé, Bruno Lepri	66
16	On the Challenges and Potential of Using Barometric Sensors to Track Human Activity 2020 ·Sensors ·(unknown), (unknown), Alain Barrat, Roland Bouffanais	25
17	Measuring social networks in primates: wearable sensors versus direct observations 2020 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Dany Paleressompoulle, Nicolas Claidière, Alain Barrat	29
18	Efficient and trustworthy methods for knowledge discovery 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·(unknown), (unknown), Alain Barrat, Francesco Bonchi, Ciro Cattuto, Francesco Gullo	11
19	Microdynamics in stationary complex networks 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy	102
20	Traceroute-like exploration of unknown networks: a statistical analysis 2005 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Alain Barrat, Luca Dall’Asta, J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Alexei Vázquez, Alessandro Vespignani	1

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