Bruno Lepri

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
149 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Bruno Lepri is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruno Lepri has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Transportation, 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 26 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Bruno Lepri's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (43 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (19 papers). Bruno Lepri is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (43 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (21 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (19 papers). Bruno Lepri collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Bruno Lepri's co-authors include Alex Pentland, Fabio Pianesi, Nuria Oliver, Gianni Barlacchi, Jacopo Staiano, Emmanuel Letouzé, Marco De Nadai, Nicu Sebe, Massimo Zancanaro and Patrick Vinck and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Bruno Lepri

141 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes

2017 374 citations Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver et al. profile →
A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino

2015 341 citations Gianni Barlacchi, Alex Pentland et al. profile →
A survey on deep learning for human mobility

2023 122 citations Massimiliano Luca, Gianni Barlacchi et al. ISTI Open Portal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruno Lepri Italy	35	894	848	752	532	465	149	4.0k
Vassilis Kostakos Finland	42	695 0.8×	687 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	799 1.5×	359 0.8×	272	6.4k
Daniele Quercia United Kingdom	30	777 0.9×	673 0.8×	971 1.3×	296 0.6×	213 0.5×	144	3.5k
Mirco Musolesi United Kingdom	43	1.7k 2.0×	733 0.9×	804 1.1×	1.3k 2.4×	199 0.4×	153	7.6k
Cecilia Mascolo United Kingdom	50	2.5k 2.8×	1.3k 1.6×	722 1.0×	1.5k 2.9×	197 0.4×	271	9.8k
Sunny Consolvo United States	39	590 0.7×	589 0.7×	1.9k 2.5×	1.3k 2.4×	330 0.7×	86	7.3k
Sune Lehmann Denmark	32	749 0.8×	654 0.8×	855 1.1×	263 0.5×	123 0.3×	102	4.8k
Nuria Oliver Spain	37	762 0.9×	1.9k 2.2×	660 0.9×	4.0k 7.4×	293 0.6×	138	8.2k
Daniel Gática-Pérez Switzerland	52	1.4k 1.6×	2.6k 3.1×	899 1.2×	3.6k 6.7×	1.1k 2.5×	282	9.2k
Xiaojuan Ma Hong Kong	28	487 0.5×	973 1.1×	419 0.6×	635 1.2×	306 0.7×	196	2.9k
Fabio Pianesi Italy	26	174 0.2×	555 0.7×	377 0.5×	319 0.6×	381 0.8×	84	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruno Lepri

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruno Lepri

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruno Lepri

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aprosio, Alessio Palmero, et al.. (2025). AI product cards: a framework for code-bound formal documentation cards in the public administration. Data & Policy. 7.

Nicolini, Carlo, et al.. (2024). Glitter or gold? Deriving structured insights from sustainability reports via large language models. EPJ Data Science. 13(1). 13 indexed citations

Fernández, Daniel, et al.. (2024). What is beautiful is still good: the attractiveness halo effect in the era of beauty filters. Royal Society Open Science. 11(11). 240882–240882.

Luca, Massimiliano, Gabriele Santin, Giorgio Previati, et al.. (2024). Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles Interacting in a Roundabout: A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation. IEEE Access. 12. 32693–32705. 5 indexed citations

Luca, Massimiliano, Luca Pappalardo, Bruno Lepri, & Gianni Barlacchi. (2023). Trajectory test-train overlap in next-location prediction datasets. Machine Learning. 112(11). 4597–4634. 2 indexed citations

Roberts, Sam G. B., et al.. (2023). The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends. Royal Society Open Science. 10(10). 230834–230834. 1 indexed citations

Luca, Massimiliano, et al.. (2023). Crime, inequality and public health: a survey of emerging trends in urban data science. Frontiers in Big Data. 6. 6 indexed citations

Passerini, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Adaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach. EPJ Data Science. 12(1).

Luca, Massimiliano, Gianni Barlacchi, Bruno Lepri, & Luca Pappalardo. (2023). A survey on deep learning for human mobility. ISTI Open Portal. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lepri, Bruno, et al.. (2023). Synthesizing explainable counterfactual policies for algorithmic recourse with program synthesis. Machine Learning. 112(4). 1389–1409. 2 indexed citations

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Cencetti, Giulia, Gabriele Santin, Timofei Istomin, et al.. (2022). Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic. ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia). 6 indexed citations

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Bonassi, Andrea, Giulio Gabrieli, Anna Truzzi, et al.. (2021). The Recognition of Cross-Cultural Emotional Faces Is Affected by Intensity and Ethnicity in a Japanese Sample. Behavioral Sciences. 11(5). 59–59. 15 indexed citations

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Cencetti, Giulia, Gabriele Santin, Alain Barrat, et al.. (2021). Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1655–1655. 66 indexed citations

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Panzarasa, Pietro, et al.. (2019). The bridging and bonding structures of place-centric networks: Evidence from a developing country. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221148–e0221148. 7 indexed citations

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Lepri, Bruno, Nuria Oliver, Emmanuel Letouzé, Alex Pentland, & Patrick Vinck. (2018). Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Cataldo, Ilaria, Atiqah Azhari, Bruno Lepri, & Gianluca Esposito. (2017). Oxytocin receptors (OXTR) and early parental care: An interaction that modulates psychiatric disorders. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 82. 27–38. 53 indexed citations

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Menini, Stefano, et al.. (2017). RAMBLE ON: Tracing Movements of Popular Historical Figures. INFM-OAR (INFN Catania). 77–80. 10 indexed citations

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Lepri, Bruno, Jacopo Staiano, Erez Shmueli, Fabio Pianesi, & Alex Pentland. (2016). The role of personality in shaping social networks and mediating behavioral change. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Bogomolov, Andrey, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, et al.. (2015). Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics. Big Data. 3(3). 148–158. 36 indexed citations

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Lepri, Bruno, et al.. (2009). Honest Signals in the Recognition of Functional Relational Roles in Meetings.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 31–36. 1 indexed citations

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