Alexandre Bovet

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 997 citations indexed

About

Alexandre Bovet is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Bovet has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 997 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 9 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Bovet's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (12 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (12 papers) and Magnetic confinement fusion research (12 papers). Alexandre Bovet is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (12 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (12 papers) and Magnetic confinement fusion research (12 papers). Alexandre Bovet collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Italy. Alexandre Bovet's co-authors include Hernán A. Makse, I. Furno, A. Fasoli, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Flaviano Morone, Peter Grindrod, Jean‐Charles Delvenne, Silvia Perri and Alessandro Galeazzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Bovet

23 papers receiving 951 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Inﬂuence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election

2019 573 citations Alexandre Bovet, Hernán A. Makse CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York) profile →
Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections

2023 65 citations Alessandro Galeazzi, Stuart I. Feldman et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers

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A. Ratkiewicz United States

Richard Herrmann Germany

T. Johnson Sweden

Rainer Müller Germany

Serge Galam France

Hrvoje Štefančić Croatia

A. Tarancón Spain

Axel Gelfert Singapore

Giacomo Livan United Kingdom

James Owen Weatherall United States

A. Ratkiewicz United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Bovet

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Bovet

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Bovet

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Bovet. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Bovet 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 Alexandre Bovet. Alexandre Bovet is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Bovet, Alexandre, et al.. (2025). Bluesky: Network topology, polarization, and algorithmic curation. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0318034–e0318034. 3 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, et al.. (2025). Lost in translation: using global fact-checks to measure multilingual misinformation prevalence, spread, and evolution. EPJ Data Science. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

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Lambiotte, Renaud, et al.. (2025). Community detection on directed networks with missing edges. Journal of Physics Complexity. 6(2). 25018–25018.

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Bovet, Alexandre, et al.. (2025). Effective Yet Ephemeral Propaganda Defense: There Needs to Be More than One-Shot Inoculation to Enhance Critical Thinking. 1–13.

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Andrade, José S., et al.. (2024). Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election. EPJ Data Science. 13(1). 2 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, et al.. (2024). The perils and promises of fact-checking with large language models. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 7. 1341697–1341697. 16 indexed citations

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Galeazzi, Alessandro, Stuart I. Feldman, Michael W. Macy, et al.. (2023). Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(6). 904–916. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bovet, Alexandre & Peter Grindrod. (2022). Organization and evolution of the UK far-right network on Telegram. Applied Network Science. 7(1). 76–76. 22 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Multi-Scale Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34(1). 678–685. 19 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre & Hernán A. Makse. (2019). Inﬂuence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York). 573 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bovet, Alexandre, Flaviano Morone, & Hernán A. Makse. (2018). Validation of Twitter opinion trends with national polling aggregates: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8673–8673. 67 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, A. Fasoli, Paolo Ricci, I. Furno, & Kyle Gustafson. (2015). Nondiffusive transport regimes for suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas. Physical Review E. 91(4). 41101–41101. 17 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre. (2015). Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

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Furno, I., Fabio Avino, Alexandre Bovet, et al.. (2015). Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX. Journal of Plasma Physics. 81(3). 20 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, A. Fasoli, & I. Furno. (2014). Time-Resolved Measurements of Suprathermal Ion Transport Induced by Intermittent Plasma Blob Filaments. Physical Review Letters. 113(22). 225001–225001. 10 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, I. Furno, Paolo Ricci, et al.. (2014). Transport equation describing fractional Lévy motion of suprathermal ions in TORPEX. Nuclear Fusion. 54(10). 104009–104009. 28 indexed citations

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Perrone, Denise, R. O. Dendy, I. Furno, et al.. (2013). Nonclassical Transport and Particle-Field Coupling: from Laboratory Plasmas to the Solar Wind. Space Science Reviews. 178(2-4). 233–270. 41 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, A. Fasoli, I. Furno, Kyle Gustafson, & Paolo Ricci. (2012). Investigation of suprathermal ion transport in TORPEX. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations

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Gustafson, Kyle, Paolo Ricci, Alexandre Bovet, I. Furno, & A. Fasoli. (2012). Suprathermal ion transport in simple magnetized torus configurations. Physics of Plasmas. 19(6). 18 indexed citations

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Bovet, Alexandre, I. Furno, A. Fasoli, Kyle Gustafson, & Paolo Ricci. (2012). Investigation of fast ion transport in TORPEX. Nuclear Fusion. 52(9). 94017–94017. 14 indexed citations

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