Anastasios Noulas

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Anastasios Noulas is a scholar working on Transportation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Anastasios Noulas has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Transportation, 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 5 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Anastasios Noulas's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (29 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (6 papers). Anastasios Noulas is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (29 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (6 papers). Anastasios Noulas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Anastasios Noulas's co-authors include Cecilia Mascolo, Salvatore Scellato, Renaud Lambiotte, Massimiliano Pontil, Neal Lathia, Enrique Frı́as-Martı́nez, Chloë Brown, Mirco Musolesi, Hamed Haddadi and Yelena Mejova and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Access and The European Physical Journal B.

In The Last Decade

Anastasios Noulas

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2011 100 200 300 400
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. A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility
    2012 429 citations Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  2. Exploiting place features in link prediction on location-based social networks
    2011 364 citations Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anastasios Noulas United Kingdom 17 1.3k 452 316 263 259 36 1.9k
Eunjoon Cho United States 8 1.5k 1.1× 468 1.0× 530 1.7× 454 1.7× 576 2.2× 14 2.2k
Enrique Frı́as-Martı́nez Spain 24 806 0.6× 116 0.3× 252 0.8× 109 0.4× 212 0.8× 53 1.6k
Salvatore Rinzivillo Italy 19 1.0k 0.8× 144 0.3× 79 0.3× 127 0.5× 318 1.2× 51 1.7k
Peifeng Yin United States 13 989 0.7× 186 0.4× 1.0k 3.2× 290 1.1× 293 1.1× 27 1.7k
Zongyang Ma Singapore 12 545 0.4× 300 0.7× 701 2.2× 153 0.6× 605 2.3× 21 1.5k
Fengli Xu China 22 642 0.5× 101 0.2× 191 0.6× 306 1.2× 448 1.7× 71 1.6k
Chiara Renso Italy 21 977 0.7× 69 0.2× 282 0.9× 272 1.0× 447 1.7× 106 2.0k
Cheng–Te Li Taiwan 22 213 0.2× 301 0.7× 457 1.4× 165 0.6× 678 2.6× 132 1.4k
Kwan Hui Lim Singapore 19 343 0.3× 153 0.3× 443 1.4× 92 0.3× 474 1.8× 65 1.2k
Ramón Cáceres United States 27 735 0.6× 67 0.1× 753 2.4× 1.6k 5.9× 782 3.0× 42 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anastasios Noulas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anastasios Noulas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Chloë, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2021). Where Online Friends Meet: Social Communities in Location-Based Networks. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 6(1). 415–418.
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Hristova, Desislava, David Liben‐Nowell, Anastasios Noulas, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2021). If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time: Spatio-Temporal Footprints of Spending at Sports Events on Foursquare. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 10(2). 14–19. 1 indexed citations
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Feuerriegel, Stefan, et al.. (2020). Leveraging Mobility Flows from Location Technology Platforms to Test Crime Pattern Theory in Large Cities. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 14. 339–350. 7 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2018). Predicting the temporal activity patterns of new venues. EPJ Data Science. 7(1). 13–13. 21 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2018). Developing and Deploying a Taxi Price Comparison Mobile App in the Wild: Insights and Challenges. Repository of the University of Namur. 424–433. 5 indexed citations
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Rowe, Matthew, et al.. (2017). Birds of a Feather Talk Together: User Influence on Language Adoption. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations
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Hristova, Desislava, Anastasios Noulas, Chloë Brown, Mirco Musolesi, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2016). A multilayer approach to multiplexity and link prediction in online geo-social networks. EPJ Data Science. 5(1). 24–24. 74 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2016). Next Generation Physical Analytics for Digital Signage. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 19–24. 5 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2015). The Evolution of Your Success Lies at the Centre of Your Co-Authorship Network. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0114302–e0114302. 15 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2015). Mining open datasets for transparency in taxi transport in metropolitan environments. EPJ Data Science. 4(1). 23–23. 13 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, Blake Shaw, Renaud Lambiotte, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2015). Topological Properties and Temporal Dynamics of Place Networks in Urban Environments. 431–441. 29 indexed citations
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Mejova, Yelena, Hamed Haddadi, Anastasios Noulas, & Ingmar Weber. (2015). #FoodPorn. 51–58. 78 indexed citations
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Brown, Chloë, Neal Lathia, Cecilia Mascolo, Anastasios Noulas, & Vincent D. Blondel. (2014). Group Colocation Behavior in Technological Social Networks. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e105816–e105816. 11 indexed citations
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Brown, Chloë, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2013). Social and place-focused communities in location-based online social networks. The European Physical Journal B. 86(6). 19 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, et al.. (2012). Talking Places: Modelling and Analysing Linguistic Content in Foursquare. 348–357. 20 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, Salvatore Scellato, Neal Lathia, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2012). Mining User Mobility Features for Next Place Prediction in Location-Based Services. 1038–1043. 255 indexed citations
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Noulas, Anastasios, Salvatore Scellato, Renaud Lambiotte, Massimiliano Pontil, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2012). A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37027–e37027. 429 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Chloë, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2012). The importance of being placefriends. 31–36. 19 indexed citations
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Scellato, Salvatore, Anastasios Noulas, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2011). Exploiting place features in link prediction on location-based social networks. 1046–1054. 364 indexed citations breakdown →
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Noulas, Anastasios & Ben Kröse. (2008). Deep Belief Networks for dimensionality reduction. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 20. 185–191. 9 indexed citations

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