Alessandro Vespignani

82.8k total citations · 33 hit papers
282 papers, 48.5k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Vespignani is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Modeling and Simulation and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Vespignani has authored 282 papers receiving a total of 48.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 95 papers in Modeling and Simulation and 59 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Vespignani's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (103 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (95 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (60 papers). Alessandro Vespignani is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (103 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (95 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (60 papers). Alessandro Vespignani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Alessandro Vespignani's co-authors include Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, Vittoria Colizza, Alexei Vázquez, Claudio Castellano, Stefano Zapperi, Nicola Perra, Piet Van Mieghem and Bruno Gonçalves and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Vespignani

280 papers receiving 46.7k citations

Hit Papers

Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2004 2020 2015 2020 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 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.

  1. Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks
    2001 4.0k citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  2. The architecture of complex weighted networks
    2004 2.8k citations Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    2020 2.4k citations Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis et al. Science profile →
  4. Epidemic processes in complex networks
    2015 2.3k citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  5. The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
    2020 1.9k citations Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Bernardo Gutiérrez et al. Science profile →
  6. Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks
    2008 1.7k citations Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  7. The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis
    2014 1.5k citations David Lazer, Alessandro Vespignani et al. Science profile →
  8. Epidemic dynamics and endemic states in complex networks
    2001 1.2k citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  9. Dynamical and Correlation Properties of the Internet
    2001 954 citations Alexei Vázquez, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  10. Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases
    2009 913 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Evolution and Structure of the Internet
    2004 873 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  12. Immunization of complex networks
    2002 849 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  13. 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 →
  14. Science of science
    2018 781 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. Science profile →
  15. Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China
    2020 732 citations Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova et al. Science profile →
  16. Detecting rich-club ordering in complex networks
    2006 659 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Flammini et al. profile →
  17. Economic Networks: The New Challenges
    2009 615 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. Science profile →
  18. Reaction–diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks
    2007 597 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  19. Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks
    2010 535 citations Alain Barrat, Vittoria Colizza et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  20. Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks
    2009 530 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  21. Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19
    2020 519 citations Alberto Aleta, David Martín-Corral et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
  22. Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks
    2004 512 citations Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  23. Epidemic dynamics in finite size scale-free networks
    2002 509 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  24. Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions
    2007 509 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat et al. profile →
  25. Large-scale topological and dynamical properties of the Internet
    2002 458 citations Alexei Vázquez, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  26. Modelling dynamical processes in complex socio-technical systems
    2011 434 citations Alessandro Vespignani profile →
  27. Activity driven modeling of time varying networks
    2012 420 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  28. Absence of Epidemic Threshold in Scale-Free Networks with Degree Correlations
    2003 396 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  29. Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar's Number
    2011 375 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  30. Competition among memes in a world with limited attention
    2012 367 citations Alessandro Flammini, Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  31. A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino
    2015 341 citations Alessandro Vespignani et al. profile →
  32. Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities
    2020 228 citations David Lazer, Duncan J. Watts et al. Science profile →
  33. Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science
    2021 191 citations Jake M. Hofman, Duncan J. Watts et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Alessandro Vespignani
Comparison fields: 5 of 229
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 22.3k
  • Modeling and Simulation 12.9k
  • Sociology and Political Science 6.1k
  • Economics and Econometrics 5.4k
  • Epidemiology 5.1k
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M. E. J. Newman United States
Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States
Robert M. May United Kingdom
Simon A. Levin United States
Alain Barrat France
Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras Spain
Yamir Moreno Spain
Duncan J. Watts United States
Marc Barthélemy France
Vittoria Colizza France
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks
2025 ·Nature Medicine ·Guillaume St-Onge, Jessica T. Davis, Laurent Hébert‐Dufresne, Antoine Allard, (unknown), Samuel V. Scarpino, Matteo Chinazzi, Alessandro Vespignani
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Evaluating Seasonal Variations in Human Contact Patterns and Their Impact on the Transmission of Respiratory Infectious Diseases
2024 ·Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses ·(unknown), Juanjuan Zhang, Chenyan Jiang, Maria Litvinova, (unknown), Marc A. García, Alessandro Vespignani, Huanyu Wu, Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli
6
3
Ensemble 2 : Scenarios ensembling for communication and performance analysis
2024 ·Epidemics ·(unknown), Guillaume St-Onge, Jessica T. Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Emily Howerton, Justin Lessler, Michael C. Runge, Katriona Shea, Shaun Truelove, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
2
4
Spatial scales of COVID-19 transmission in Mexico
2024 ·PNAS Nexus ·Brennan Klein, (unknown), Munik Shrestha, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ana I. Bento, Benjamin M. Althouse, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Marina Escalera‐Zamudio, Arturo Reyes‐Sandoval, Oliver G. Pybus, Alessandro Vespignani, José Alberto Dí­az-Quiñónez, Samuel V. Scarpino, Moritz U. G. Kraemer
2
5
The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic
2023 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Marco Pangallo, Alberto Aleta, (unknown), Anton Pichler, David Martín-Corral, Matteo Chinazzi, François Lafond, Marco Ajelli, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno, Alessandro Vespignani, J. Doyne Farmer
31
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Forecasting hospital-level COVID-19 admissions using real-time mobility data
2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Brennan Klein, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), M. Hu, (unknown), Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Matteo Chinazzi, Michael Klompas, Alessandro Vespignani, Samuel V. Scarpino, Hojjat Salmasian
14
7
Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy
2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Brennan Klein, Nicholas Generous, Matteo Chinazzi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jon Green, David Lazer, (unknown), Samuel V. Scarpino, Alessandro Vespignani
12
8
Model-based evaluation of alternative reactive class closure strategies against COVID-19
2022 ·Nature Communications ·Quan-Hui Liu, (unknown), Peng Cheng, Maria Litvinova, Shudong Huang, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano, Tao Zhou, Cécile Viboud, Ana I. Bento, Jiancheng Lv, Alessandro Vespignani, Stefano Merler, Hongjie Yu, Marco Ajelli
29
9
Using simulated infectious disease outbreaks to inform site selection and sample size for individually randomized vaccine trials during an ongoing epidemic
2021 ·Clinical Trials ·Zachary J. Madewell, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Qian Zhang, (unknown), Yang Yang, Ira M. Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Alessandro Vespignani, Natalie E. Dean
2
10
Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science breakdown →
2021 ·Nature ·Jake M. Hofman, Duncan J. Watts, Susan Athey, Filiz Garip, Thomas L. Griffiths, Jon Kleinberg, Helen Margetts, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew Salganik, Simine Vazire, Alessandro Vespignani, Tal Yarkoni
191
11
The effect of eviction moratoria on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2
2021 ·Nature Communications ·Anjalika Nande, (unknown), (unknown), Brennan Klein, Matteo Chinazzi, Andrei Gheorghe, Ben Adlam, Julianna Shinnick, (unknown), Samuel V. Scarpino, Alessandro Vespignani, Andrew J. Greenlee, Daniel Schneider, Michael Z. Levy, Alison L. Hill
56
12
Using heterogeneous data to identify signatures of dengue outbreaks at fine spatio-temporal scales across Brazil
2021 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Lauren Castro, Nicholas Generous, Wei Luo, Ana Pastore y Piontti, (unknown), Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes, Dave Osthus, Geoffrey Fairchild, Amanda Ziemann, Alessandro Vespignani, Mauricio Santillana, Carrie A. Manore, Sara Y. Del Valle
13
13
Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2
2020 ·Science ·Kaiyuan Sun, Wei Wang, Lidong Gao, Yan Wang, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Zhifei Zhan, Xinghui Chen, Shanlu Zhao, Yiwei Huang, Qianlai Sun, Ziyan Liu, Maria Litvinova, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu
243
14
The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak breakdown →
2020 ·Science ·Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Marco Ajelli, Corrado Gioannini, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Kunpeng Mu, Luca Rossi, Kaiyuan Sun, Cécile Viboud, Xinyue Xiong, Hongjie Yu, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Alessandro Vespignani
2411
15
Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China breakdown →
2020 ·Science ·Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Yuxia Liang, Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Shanlu Zhao, Qianhui Wu, Stefano Merler, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu
732
16
The COVID-19 outbreak in Sichuan, China: Epidemiology and impact of interventions
2020 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Quan-Hui Liu, Ana I. Bento, Kexin Yang, Hang Zhang, (unknown), Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani, (unknown), Hongjie Yu, Wei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Marco Ajelli
20
17
Assessing the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil: Mobility, morbidity and social vulnerability
2020 ·PLoS ONE ·Flávio Codeço Coelho, Raquel Martins Lana, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela, Leonardo Soares Bastos, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Jessica T. Davis, Alessandro Vespignani, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes
71
18
Correction for Lofgren et al., Opinion: Mathematical models: A key tool for outbreak response
2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eric Lofgren, (unknown), Caitlin Rivers, John M. Drake, Travis C. Porco, Bryan Lewis, Wan Yang, Alessandro Vespignani, Jeffrey Shaman, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Madhav Marathe, Samuel V. Scarpino, Kathleen A. Alexander, Rafael Meza, Matthew J. Ferrari, James M. Hyman, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Stephen Eubank
2
19
Rich-club ordering in complex networks
2007 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Alessandro Flammini, Vittoria Colizza, (unknown), Alessandro Vespignani
2
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
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