Carter T. Butts

11.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
173 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Carter T. Butts is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Carter T. Butts has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 64 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 29 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Carter T. Butts's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (65 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (35 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (21 papers). Carter T. Butts is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (65 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (35 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (21 papers). Carter T. Butts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Carter T. Butts's co-authors include David R. Hunter, Mark S. Handcock, Steven M. Goodreau, Martina Morris, Athina Markopoulou, Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, John R. Hipp, Jeannette Sutton and Emma S. Spiro and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Carter T. Butts

167 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks

2008 958 citations David R. Hunter, Mark S. Handcock et al. profile →
statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data

2008 716 citations Mark S. Handcock, David R. Hunter et al. profile →
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs

2010 435 citations Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carter T. Butts United States	39	2.5k	2.4k	991	769	549	173	7.7k
Garry Robins Australia	52	3.3k 1.4×	3.2k 1.3×	795 0.8×	622 0.8×	246 0.4×	128	10.7k
Martin G. Everett United Kingdom	32	2.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	739 0.7×	530 0.7×	363 0.7×	80	8.1k
Peter Sheridan Dodds United States	36	3.0k 1.2×	3.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	250 0.5×	96	9.2k
Noshir Contractor United States	39	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 2.1×	830 1.1×	154 0.3×	205	8.8k
Philippa Pattison Australia	60	3.3k 1.3×	3.6k 1.5×	747 0.8×	761 1.0×	294 0.5×	159	13.4k
Mark S. Handcock United States	44	2.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	505 0.5×	1.4k 1.8×	508 0.9×	140	11.6k
David R. Hunter United States	36	1.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	319 0.3×	1.4k 1.9×	622 1.1×	91	8.5k
James M. Cook United States	7	6.0k 2.4×	2.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	1.0k 1.3×	133 0.2×	14	12.9k
Antonio Scala Italy	42	3.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 2.1×	203	10.7k
Mathieu Jacomy France	10	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	729 0.7×	832 1.1×	2.0k 3.7×	24	9.6k

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Patricelli, Gail L., et al.. (2025). Fighting isn’t sexy in lekking greater sage-grouse: a relational event model approach for mating interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2047). 20242981–20242981. 1 indexed citations

Butts, Carter T., et al.. (2025). Birds of a feather sign together: Co-ratification patterns in the International environmental agreement network. Social Networks. 82. 182–200.

Gibson, C. Ben & Carter T. Butts. (2023). Effects of temporal resolution adjustments on dynamic sexual contact models. Social Networks. 73. 104–113. 2 indexed citations

Markopoulou, Athina, et al.. (2023). Privacy by Projection: Federated Population Density Estimation by Projecting on Random Features. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 2023(1). 309–324. 1 indexed citations

Gravel, Jason, Matthew Valasik, Joris Mulder, et al.. (2023). Rivalries, reputation, retaliation, and repetition: Testing plausible mechanisms for the contagion of violence between street gangs using relational event models. Network Science. 11(2). 324–350. 8 indexed citations

Butts, Carter T., et al.. (2023). California Exodus? A network model of population redistribution in the United States. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 48(3). 311–339. 1 indexed citations

Butts, Carter T., et al.. (2023). Rooted America: Immobility and Segregation of the Intercounty Migration Network. American Sociological Review. 88(6). 1031–1065. 9 indexed citations

Yin, Fan, et al.. (2022). Geographical patterns of social cohesion drive disparities in early COVID infection hazard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2121675119–e2121675119. 10 indexed citations

Kreutzer, Adam G., et al.. (2021). A cyclic peptide inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 221. 113530–113530. 32 indexed citations

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Bierma, Jan C., Marquise G. Crosby, Brooke P. Carpenter, et al.. (2020). The Droserasin 1 PSI: A Membrane-Interacting Antimicrobial Peptide from the Carnivorous Plant Drosera capensis. Biomolecules. 10(7). 1069–1069. 7 indexed citations

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Yin, Fan, et al.. (2020). Spatial heterogeneity can lead to substantial local variations in COVID-19 timing and severity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24180–24187. 84 indexed citations

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Sutton, Jeannette, et al.. (2020). The First 60 Days: American Public Health Agencies' Social Media Strategies in the Emerging COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Security. 18(6). 454–460. 23 indexed citations

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Vos, Sarah C., Jeannette Sutton, C. Ben Gibson, & Carter T. Butts. (2020). #Ebola: Emergency Risk Messages on Social Media. Health Security. 18(6). 461–472. 5 indexed citations

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Yin, Fan, Weining Shen, & Carter T. Butts. (2019). Finite Mixtures of ERGMs for Ensembles of Networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Butts, Carter T.. (2017). A Perfect Sampling Method for Exponential Random Graph Models. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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DuBois, Christopher, Carter T. Butts, & Padhraic Smyth. (2013). Stochastic blockmodeling of relational event dynamics. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 238–246. 29 indexed citations

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Beckage, Nicole, Mark Steyvers, & Carter T. Butts. (2012). Route choice in individuals—semantic network navigation. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 6 indexed citations

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Foulds, James R., Christopher DuBois, Arthur Asuncion, Carter T. Butts, & Padhraic Smyth. (2011). A Dynamic Relational Infinite Feature Model for Longitudinal Social Networks. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 287–295. 25 indexed citations

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Butts, Carter T., et al.. (2009). Change and External Events in Computer-Mediated Citation Networks: English Language Weblogs and the 2004 U.S. Electoral Cycle. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations

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Handcock, Mark S., David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, & Martina Morris. (2007). statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 45 indexed citations

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