Benjamin F. Maier

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 983 citations indexed

About

Benjamin F. Maier is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin F. Maier has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 983 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 7 papers in Infectious Diseases and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin F. Maier's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (10 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers). Benjamin F. Maier is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (10 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers). Benjamin F. Maier collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United Kingdom. Benjamin F. Maier's co-authors include Dirk Brockmann, David J. Hinrichs, Frank Schlosser, Adrian Zachariae, Ulf Aslak, George T. Cantwell, Marc Wiedermann, Guillaume St-Onge, Lothar H. Wieler and Stephan Fuchs and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin F. Maier

19 papers receiving 968 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.

  1. Effective containment explains subexponential growth in recent confirmed COVID-19 cases in China
    2020 561 citations Benjamin F. Maier, Dirk Brockmann Science profile →

Peers

Benjamin F. Maier
Alberto Aleta Spain
Serina Chang United States
Srinivasan Venkatramanan United States
Beth Redbird United States
David Martín-Corral Spain
Liangcai Zhou China
Carlo Michele Valensise Italy
Giulia Pullano France
Alberto Aleta Spain
Benjamin F. Maier
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Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin F. Maier

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin F. Maier

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin F. Maier. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin F. Maier 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 Benjamin F. Maier. Benjamin F. Maier 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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Cremers, Jolien, Benjamin Köhler, Benjamin F. Maier, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 18383–18383. 1 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., et al.. (2025). Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(12). 2564–2575.
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Zachariae, Adrian, et al.. (2024). Inferring country-specific import risk of diseases from the world air transportation network. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(1). e1011775–e1011775. 2 indexed citations
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d’Andrea, Valeria, Francesco Di Lauro, Adrian Zachariae, et al.. (2023). Enhancing global preparedness during an ongoing pandemic from partial and noisy data. PNAS Nexus. 2(6). pgad192–pgad192. 7 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., Marc Wiedermann, Frank Schlosser, et al.. (2023). Modeling the impact of the Omicron infection wave in Germany. Biology Methods and Protocols. 8(1). bpad005–bpad005. 2 indexed citations
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Wiedermann, Marc, et al.. (2023). Evidence for positive long- and short-term effects of vaccinations against COVID-19 in wearable sensor metrics. PNAS Nexus. 2(7). pgad223–pgad223. 10 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., Hannelore Neuhauser, Ole Wichmann, et al.. (2023). Estimating the share of SARS-CoV-2-immunologically naïve individuals in Germany up to June 2022. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e38–e38. 3 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., et al.. (2022). Germany’s fourth COVID-19 wave was mainly driven by the unvaccinated. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 116–116. 7 indexed citations
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Brockmann, Dirk, et al.. (2022). Understanding the impact of digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(12). e0000149–e0000149. 10 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F.. (2021). epipack: An infectious disease modeling package for Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 6(60). 3097–3097. 2 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F. & Dirk Brockmann. (2020). Effective containment explains subexponential growth in recent confirmed COVID-19 cases in China. Science. 368(6492). 742–746. 561 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schlosser, Frank, Benjamin F. Maier, David J. Hinrichs, Adrian Zachariae, & Dirk Brockmann. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown induces structural changes in mobility networks -- Implication for mitigating disease dynamics. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 6 indexed citations
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Cantwell, George T., et al.. (2020). Thresholding normally distributed data creates complex networks. Physical review. E. 101(6). 62302–62302. 23 indexed citations
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Schlosser, Frank, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown induces disease-mitigating structural changes in mobility networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52). 32883–32890. 258 indexed citations
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Aslak, Ulf & Benjamin F. Maier. (2019). Netwulf: Interactive visualization of networks in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(42). 1425–1425. 9 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F.. (2019). Generalization of the small-world effect on a model approaching the Erdős–Rényi random graph. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 9268–9268. 14 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F. & Dirk Brockmann. (2017). Cover time for random walks on arbitrary complex networks. Physical review. E. 96(4). 42307–42307. 31 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., et al.. (2012). Design and simulation of a mode suppressed GTEM cell. 18. 1159–1164. 4 indexed citations
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Maier, Benjamin F., et al.. (2007). Simulation und Feldtest für die Validation mobilfunkbasierter Verkehrsdaten. elib (German Aerospace Center).

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