Alec Kirkley

574 total citations
22 papers, 346 citations indexed

About

Alec Kirkley is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Transportation and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Alec Kirkley has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 346 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 7 papers in Transportation and 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Alec Kirkley's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (10 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 papers). Alec Kirkley is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (10 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 papers). Alec Kirkley collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United States and China. Alec Kirkley's co-authors include Gourab Ghoshal, Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy, M. E. J. Newman, George T. Cantwell, Shihui Feng, Sayat Mimar, Adam Sadilek, José J. Ramasco and Vincenzo Nicosia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

In The Last Decade

Alec Kirkley

18 papers receiving 340 citations

Peers

Alec Kirkley
Federico Botta United Kingdom
Alexander Belyi United States
Saray Shai United States
Daniel Grady United States
W. Li China
Enrico Steiger Germany
Onur Küçüktunç United States
G. Mukherjee India
Marcos Oliveira Brazil
Víctor Soto United States
Federico Botta United Kingdom
Alec Kirkley
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Countries citing papers authored by Alec Kirkley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alec Kirkley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alec Kirkley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alec Kirkley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alec Kirkley based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alec Kirkley. Alec Kirkley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kirkley, Alec. (2025). Transfer entropy for finite data. Physical review. E. 112(5). L052304–L052304.
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Kirkley, Alec, et al.. (2025). Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11268–11268.
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Kirkley, Alec & Ben He. (2024). PANINIpy: Package of Algorithms for NonparametricInference with Networks In Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(103). 7312–7312.
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Kirkley, Alec, et al.. (2024). Bayesian regionalization of urban mobility networks. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 2 indexed citations
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Battiston, Federico, et al.. (2024). Network mutual information measures for graph similarity. Communications Physics. 7(1). 2 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec, et al.. (2024). Mutual information and the encoding of contingency tables. Physical review. E. 110(6). 64306–64306. 2 indexed citations
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Hébert‐Dufresne, Laurent, et al.. (2024). Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length. Physical review. E. 110(3). 34305–34305.
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Kirkley, Alec. (2024). Identifying hubs in directed networks. Physical review. E. 109(3). 34310–34310. 4 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec, et al.. (2024). Improved estimates for the number of non-negative integer matrices with given row and column sums. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 480(2282). 5 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec. (2024). Inference of dynamic hypergraph representations in temporal interaction data. Physical review. E. 109(5). 54306–54306. 8 indexed citations
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Cantwell, George T., Alec Kirkley, & Filippo Radicchi. (2023). Heterogeneous message passing for heterogeneous networks. Physical review. E. 108(3). 6 indexed citations
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Peixoto, Tiago P. & Alec Kirkley. (2023). Implicit models, latent compression, intrinsic biases, and cheap lunches in community detection. Physical review. E. 108(2). 24309–24309. 5 indexed citations
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Ghoshal, Gourab, et al.. (2023). Characterizing network circuity among heterogeneous urban amenities. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(208). 20230296–20230296. 3 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec, Alexis Rojas, Martin Rosvall, & Jean-Gabriel Young. (2023). Compressing network populations with modal networks reveal structural diversity. Communications Physics. 6(1). 8 indexed citations
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Bassolas, Aleix, Gourab Ghoshal, Alec Kirkley, et al.. (2022). Impact of urban structure on infectious disease spreading. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3816–3816. 28 indexed citations
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Feng, Shihui & Alec Kirkley. (2021). Integrating online and offline data for crisis management: Online geolocalized emotion, policy response, and local mobility during the COVID crisis. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 8514–8514. 13 indexed citations
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Feng, Shihui & Alec Kirkley. (2020). Mixing Patterns in Interdisciplinary Co-Authorship Networks at Multiple Scales. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7731–7731. 31 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec. (2020). Information theoretic network approach to socioeconomic correlations. Physical Review Research. 2(4). 9 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec, George T. Cantwell, & M. E. J. Newman. (2019). Balance in signed networks. Physical review. E. 99(1). 12320–12320. 69 indexed citations
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Kirkley, Alec, Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy, & Gourab Ghoshal. (2018). From the betweenness centrality in street networks to structural invariants in random planar graphs. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2501–2501. 124 indexed citations

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