Erik Aurell

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Erik Aurell is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Molecular Biology and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Aurell has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Erik Aurell's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (19 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (19 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (12 papers). Erik Aurell is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (19 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (19 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (12 papers). Erik Aurell collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and France. Erik Aurell's co-authors include Magnus Ekeberg, Roberto Artuso, Predrag Cvitanović, Angelo Vulpiani, G. Boffetta, A. Crisanti, G. Paladin, Yueheng Lan, Martin Weigt and Cecilia Lövkvist and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Erik Aurell

114 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Improved contact prediction in proteins: Using pseudolike... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400
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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. Improved contact prediction in proteins: Using pseudolikelihoods to infer Potts models
    2013 438 citations Yueheng Lan, Erik Aurell et al. Physical Review E profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erik Aurell Sweden 30 1.5k 1.3k 406 396 364 124 3.9k
Baruch Meerson Israel 28 1.0k 0.7× 532 0.4× 441 1.1× 548 1.4× 574 1.6× 157 3.2k
Ofer Biham Israel 36 865 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 2.8× 460 1.2× 111 0.3× 127 4.9k
Werner Horsthemke United States 33 1.9k 1.3× 567 0.4× 524 1.3× 280 0.7× 126 0.3× 108 3.6k
Mark Freidlin United States 28 1.6k 1.1× 383 0.3× 275 0.7× 182 0.5× 267 0.7× 114 4.7k
Jae‐Hyung Jeon South Korea 25 1.6k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 631 1.6× 115 0.3× 108 0.3× 64 4.6k
Heinz Georg Schuster Germany 31 1.7k 1.2× 961 0.7× 307 0.8× 528 1.3× 102 0.3× 82 4.6k
Peter E. Kloeden Germany 26 946 0.6× 309 0.2× 276 0.7× 136 0.3× 705 1.9× 64 6.0k
Eckhard Platen Australia 26 935 0.6× 322 0.2× 319 0.8× 140 0.4× 519 1.4× 158 6.5k
Aleksei V. Chechkin Ukraine 46 2.8k 1.9× 2.0k 1.5× 325 0.8× 70 0.2× 160 0.4× 149 6.2k
Mogens H. Jensen Denmark 43 2.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.0× 940 2.3× 252 0.6× 581 1.6× 196 6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Aurell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2025). An international physics conference in Ukraine. Nature Reviews Physics. 7(9). 464–465.
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2024). Random Pure Gaussian States and Hawking Radiation. Physical Review Letters. 133(6). 60202–60202.
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2023). A closure for the master equation starting from the dynamic cavity method. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 56(17). 17LT02–17LT02. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Hong-Li, et al.. (2020). Global analysis of more than 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals epistasis between eight viral genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49). 31519–31526. 35 indexed citations
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Lacoux, Caroline, Aymeric Fouquier d’Hérouël, Françoise Wessner, et al.. (2020). Dynamic insights on transcription initiation and RNA processing during bacterial adaptation. RNA. 26(4). 382–395. 5 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2020). Large deviations and fluctuation theorem for the quantum heat current in the spin-boson model. Physical review. E. 101(5). 52116–52116. 9 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik. (2018). Characteristic functions of quantum heat with baths at different temperatures. Physical review. E. 97(6). 62117–62117. 12 indexed citations
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Skwark, Marcin J., Nicholas J. Croucher, Santeri Puranen, et al.. (2017). Interacting networks of resistance, virulence and core machinery genes identified by genome-wide epistasis analysis. PLoS Genetics. 13(2). e1006508–e1006508. 64 indexed citations
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Maes, Alexandre, et al.. (2016). Landscape of RNA polyadenylation inE. coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(5). gkw894–gkw894. 18 indexed citations
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Lan, Yueheng & Erik Aurell. (2015). The stochastic thermodynamics of a rotating Brownian particle in a gradient flow. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12266–12266. 6 indexed citations
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Zeng, Hong-Li, Mikko J. Alava, Erik Aurell, John Hertz, & Yasser Roudi. (2013). Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction for Ising Models with Asynchronous Updates. Physical Review Letters. 110(21). 210601–210601. 27 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2012). Dynamic mean-field and cavity methods for diluted Ising systems. Physical Review E. 85(3). 31119–31119. 21 indexed citations
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Göndör, Anita, et al.. (2010). Window into the Complexities of Chromosome Interactomes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 75(0). 493–500. 4 indexed citations
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El-Ansary, Sameh, Erik Aurell, & Seif Haridi. (2005). Physics-inspired Performace Evaluation of a Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 116–122. 4 indexed citations
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Noullez, A., et al.. (2005). Global picture of self-similar and non-self-similar decay in Burgers turbulence. Physical Review E. 71(5). 56305–56305. 17 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik & Duccio Fanelli. (2002). Self-gravitating systems in a three-dimensional expanding universe. European Journal of Physics. 1 indexed citations
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Rasmusson, Lars & Erik Aurell. (2002). Simulation of a network capacity market and three middle-man strategies to price and sell dynamically routed point-to-point connections. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik, et al.. (2002). Stability puzzles in phage λ. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(5). 51914–51914. 101 indexed citations
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Kotaleski, Jeanette Hellgren, et al.. (1998). Activity-dependent modulation of adaptation produces a constant burst proportion in a model of the lamprey spinal locomotor generator. Biological Cybernetics. 79(1). 1–14. 16 indexed citations
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Aurell, Erik & Karol Życzkowski. (1995). OPTION PRICING & PARTIAL HEDGING: THEORY OF POLISH OPTIONS. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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