Federico Battiston

4.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
61 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Federico Battiston is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Battiston has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Federico Battiston's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (22 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers). Federico Battiston is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (22 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers). Federico Battiston collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Italy and United Kingdom. Federico Battiston's co-authors include Vito Latora, Vincenzo Nicosia, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Yamir Moreno, Giovanni Petri, Matjaž Perc, Unai Alvarez-Rodriguez, Federico Musciotto, Enrico Amico and Maxime Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Federico Battiston

58 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

2021 520 citations Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico et al. Nature Physics profile →
Structural measures for multiplex networks

2014 472 citations Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia et al. profile →
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks

2021 343 citations Federico Battiston, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda et al. profile →
Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics differently in hypergraphs and simplicial complexes

2023 114 citations Yuanzhao Zhang, Maxime Lucas et al. Nature Communications profile →
Explosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks

2024 43 citations Federico Battiston, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Federico Battiston

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Mikko Kivelä Finland

Vincenzo Nicosia United Kingdom

Claudio J. Tessone Switzerland

Giovanni Petri Italy

M. Ángeles Serrano Spain

Manlio De Domenico Italy

Zengru Di China

Lazaros K. Gallos United States

Baruch Barzel Israel

Tiago P. Peixoto Germany

Mikko Kivelä Finland

Federico Battiston

2.4k ×1.6

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667 ×1.4

CNC

367 ×0.8

574 ×1.2

SPS

430 ×1.2

Citations per year, relative to Federico Battiston Federico Battiston (= 1×) peers Mikko Kivelä

Countries citing papers authored by Federico Battiston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Federico Battiston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Battiston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Federico Battiston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Federico Battiston 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 Federico Battiston. Federico Battiston 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

Battiston, Federico, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems. Physical Review Letters. 134(13). 137401–137401. 6 indexed citations

Dobson, Simon, et al.. (2025). Higher-order shortest paths in hypergraphs. Physical review. E. 112(5). 54302–54302.

Battiston, Federico, Valerio Capraro, Sune Lehmann, et al.. (2025). Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(12). 2441–2457. 1 indexed citations

Battiston, Federico, et al.. (2025). The networks of ingredient combinations as culinary fingerprints of world cuisines. npj Science of Food. 9(1). 242–242.

Altieri, Ada, et al.. (2025). Higher-order Ising model on hypergraphs. Physical review. E. 112(2). L022301–L022301.

Vinicius, Lucio, Leonardo Rizzo, Federico Battiston, & Andrea Bamberg Migliano. (2025). Cultural evolution, social ratcheting and the evolution of human division of labour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1922). 20230277–20230277. 2 indexed citations

Santoro, Andrea, Federico Battiston, Maxime Lucas, Giovanni Petri, & Enrico Amico. (2024). Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10244–10244. 14 indexed citations

Montresor, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Multiplex measures for higher-order networks. Applied Network Science. 9(1). 3 indexed citations

Mariani, Manuel Sebastian, Federico Battiston, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, et al.. (2024). Collective dynamics behind success. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10701–10701. 1 indexed citations

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Battiston, Federico, et al.. (2024). Explosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks. Physical Review Letters. 132(16). 167401–167401. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

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Battiston, Federico, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Reinhard Furrer, et al.. (2024). Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science. 386(6724). 920–925. 4 indexed citations

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Battiston, Federico, et al.. (2024). Dynamical Fluctuations of Random Walks in Higher-Order Networks. Physical Review Letters. 133(10). 107401–107401. 3 indexed citations

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Cencetti, Giulia, Gabriele Santin, Federico Battiston, et al.. (2024). Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(210). 20230471–20230471. 2 indexed citations

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Musciotto, Federico, Michael Greenacre, Álex Mira, et al.. (2023). Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e9–e9. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuanzhao, Maxime Lucas, & Federico Battiston. (2023). Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics differently in hypergraphs and simplicial complexes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1605–1605. 114 indexed citations breakdown →

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Battiston, Federico, Enrico Amico, Alain Barrat, et al.. (2021). The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems. Nature Physics. 17(10). 1093–1098. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Millán, Ana P., et al.. (2021). Complex networks with tuneable spectral dimension as a universality playground. Physical Review Research. 3(2). 15 indexed citations

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Musciotto, Federico, Federico Battiston, & Rosario N. Mantegna. (2021). Detecting informative higher-order interactions in statistically validated hypergraphs. Nova Science Publishers (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.). 48 indexed citations

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Guillon, Jérémy, Mario Chávez, Federico Battiston, et al.. (2019). Disrupted core-periphery structure of multimodal brain networks in Alzheimer’s disease. Network Neuroscience. 3(2). 635–652. 18 indexed citations

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Battiston, Federico, Vincenzo Nicosia, & Vito Latora. (2013). Metrics for the analysis of multiplex networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 18 indexed citations

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