César A. Hidalgo

28.6k total citations · 13 hit papers
95 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

César A. Hidalgo is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, César A. Hidalgo has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 16 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in César A. Hidalgo's work include Economic and Technological Innovation (37 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Global trade and economics (10 papers). César A. Hidalgo is often cited by papers focused on Economic and Technological Innovation (37 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Global trade and economics (10 papers). César A. Hidalgo collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. César A. Hidalgo's co-authors include Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Ricardo Hausmann, Marta C. González, Bailey Klinger, Sebastián Bustos, Vincent D. Blondel, Michel Verleysen, Michele Coscia, Muhammed A. Yıldırım and Cristian Jara-Figueroa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

César A. Hidalgo

89 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding individual human mobility patterns 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2009 2007 2013 2014 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Understanding individual human mobility patterns
    2008 4.2k citations César A. Hidalgo, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási et al. profile →
  2. The building blocks of economic complexity
    2009 1.8k citations César A. Hidalgo, Ricardo Hausmann Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations
    2007 1.8k citations César A. Hidalgo, Bailey Klinger et al. profile →
  4. Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
    2013 930 citations César A. Hidalgo et al. profile →
  5. The Atlas of Economic Complexity
    2014 724 citations Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo et al. profile →
  6. Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality
    2017 499 citations Dominik Hartmann, Cristian Jara-Figueroa et al. profile →
  7. The Atlas of economic complexity: mapping paths to prosperity
    2014 479 citations Michele Coscia, César A. Hidalgo et al. profile →
  8. The network structure of economic output
    2011 442 citations Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo profile →
  9. Economic complexity theory and applications
    2021 392 citations César A. Hidalgo profile →
  10. The Collaborative Image of The City: Mapping the Inequality of Urban Perception
    2013 377 citations César A. Hidalgo et al. profile →
  11. Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses
    2009 356 citations César A. Hidalgo, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási et al. profile →
  12. Streetscore -- Predicting the Perceived Safety of One Million Streetscapes
    2014 291 citations César A. Hidalgo et al. profile →
  13. The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals
    2025 21 citations Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

César A. Hidalgo
Linton C. Freeman United States
Stephen P. Borgatti United States
Loet Leydesdorff Netherlands
Katherine Faust United States
Peter Hall Australia
Hal R. Varian United States
Guido Caldarelli Italy
W. Brian Arthur United States
Dirk Helbing Switzerland
Vincent D. Blondel Belgium
Linton C. Freeman United States
César A. Hidalgo
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ma, Fengmei, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor, et al.. (2025). The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1107–1107. 21 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hidalgo, César A., et al.. (2024). Intercity connectivity and urban innovation. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 109. 102092–102092. 21 indexed citations
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Macedo, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Understanding political divisiveness using online participation data from the 2022 French and Brazilian presidential elections. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(1). 137–148. 3 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A., et al.. (2022). Reciprocity heightens academic performance in elementary school students. Heliyon. 8(12). e11916–e11916. 6 indexed citations
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Gao, Jian, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, & César A. Hidalgo. (2021). Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification. Regional Studies. 55(7). 1311–1326. 44 indexed citations
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Jun, Bogang, et al.. (2019). Bilateral relatedness: knowledge diffusion and the evolution of bilateral trade. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 30(2). 247–277. 33 indexed citations
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Jara-Figueroa, Cristian, Bogang Jun, Edward L. Glaeser, & César A. Hidalgo. (2018). The role of industry-specific, occupation-specific, and location-specific knowledge in the growth and survival of new firms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(50). 12646–12653. 75 indexed citations
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Jara-Figueroa, Cristian, et al.. (2018). The universal decay of collective memory and attention. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(1). 82–91. 85 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Flávio L., Aamena Alshamsi, Dominik Hartmann, Ron Boschma, & César A. Hidalgo. (2018). Shooting Low or High : Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?. arXiv (Cornell University). 18(7). 30 indexed citations
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Alsaleh, Mansour, et al.. (2017). Measuring the Knowledge Intensity of Economies with an Improved Measure of Economic Complexity. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations
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Jara-Figueroa, Cristian, Amy Yu, & César A. Hidalgo. (2015). The medium is the memory: how communication technologies shape what we remember. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Coscia, Michele, Ricardo Hausmann, & César A. Hidalgo. (2013). The Structure and Dynamics of International Development Assistance. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 3(2). 1–42. 13 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A.. (2011). The Structure and Dynamics of Economic Complexity. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 2 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A., et al.. (2011). The economic complexity observatory: an analytical tool for understanding the dynamics of economic development. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 39–42. 183 indexed citations
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Hausmann, Ricardo & César A. Hidalgo. (2010). Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A., Nicholas Blumm, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2009). A Dynamic Network Approach for the Study of Human Phenotypes. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(4). e1000353–e1000353. 476 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A., Nicholas Blumm, Albert-László Barabási, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2008). The Human Phenotypic Disease Network. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
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Hidalgo, César A., Alejandra Castro, & Carlos Rodríguez‐Sickert. (2007). The Effect of Social Interactions in the Primary Consumption Life Cycle of Motion Pictures. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Hidalgo, César A., Bailey Klinger, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, & Ricardo Hausmann. (2007). The Product Space and its Consequences for Economic Growth. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 16 indexed citations

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