Hugo Barbosa

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Hugo Barbosa is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugo Barbosa has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Transportation, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Hugo Barbosa's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (11 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (8 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (6 papers). Hugo Barbosa is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (11 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (8 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (6 papers). Hugo Barbosa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Hugo Barbosa's co-authors include Gourab Ghoshal, Marc Barthélemy, Ronaldo Menezes, José J. Ramasco, Charlotte James, Marcello Tomasini, Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, Filippo Simini and Alec Kirkley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Physics Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hugo Barbosa

22 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Human mobility: Models an... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 200 400 600
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. Human mobility: Models and applications
    2018 647 citations Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy et al. Physics Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hugo Barbosa United Kingdom 10 719 194 169 125 116 24 1.1k
Thomas Louail France 7 1.0k 1.4× 197 1.0× 270 1.6× 132 1.1× 112 1.0× 15 1.3k
Clio Andris United States 15 694 1.0× 153 0.8× 167 1.0× 174 1.4× 198 1.7× 52 1.2k
Vanessa Frías-Martínez United States 20 743 1.0× 95 0.5× 220 1.3× 104 0.8× 222 1.9× 60 1.2k
Marcello Tomasini United States 6 540 0.8× 104 0.5× 96 0.6× 82 0.7× 67 0.6× 10 709
Lei Dong China 17 588 0.8× 147 0.8× 282 1.7× 73 0.6× 97 0.8× 36 1.1k
Ricardo Herranz Spain 9 638 0.9× 125 0.6× 191 1.1× 58 0.5× 55 0.5× 17 761
Jameson L. Toole United States 10 623 0.9× 149 0.8× 159 0.9× 96 0.8× 78 0.7× 13 965
Junjun Yin United States 12 457 0.6× 113 0.6× 166 1.0× 75 0.6× 87 0.8× 34 765
Laura Alessandretti Denmark 14 383 0.5× 75 0.4× 78 0.5× 119 1.0× 100 0.9× 29 842
Xiao-Yong Yan China 17 624 0.9× 232 1.2× 85 0.5× 169 1.4× 72 0.6× 53 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Hugo Barbosa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hugo Barbosa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hugo Barbosa. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hugo Barbosa. The network helps show where Hugo Barbosa may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugo Barbosa

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2025). A data-driven supervised machine learning approach to estimating global ambient air pollution concentrations with associated prediction intervals. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 241288–241288. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Zexun, et al.. (2024). Dynamic predictability and activity-location contexts in human mobility. Royal Society Open Science. 11(9). 240115–240115. 2 indexed citations
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Iyer, Nandini, Ronaldo Menezes, & Hugo Barbosa. (2024). The role of transport systems in housing insecurity: a mobility-based analysis. EPJ Data Science. 13(1).
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Iyer, Nandini, Ronaldo Menezes, & Hugo Barbosa. (2023). Mobility and transit segregation in urban spaces. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 51(7). 1496–1512. 7 indexed citations
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Botta, Federico, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(10). 1729–1739. 33 indexed citations
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Iyer, Nandini, Ronaldo Menezes, & Hugo Barbosa. (2023). Transport and Mobility Segregation in Urban Spaces. International Journal for Population Data Science. 8(3).
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Macedo, Mariana, Laura Lotero, Alessio Cardillo, Ronaldo Menezes, & Hugo Barbosa. (2022). Differences in the spatial landscape of urban mobility: Gender and socioeconomic perspectives. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0260874–e0260874. 23 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2020). Uncovering the differences and similarities between physical and virtual mobility. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(168). 20200250–20200250. 4 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2020). Complex Networks XI. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Bassolas, Aleix, Hugo Barbosa, Brian P. Dickinson, et al.. (2019). Hierarchical organization of urban mobility and its connection with city livability. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4817–4817. 136 indexed citations
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Bush, Kristen, Hugo Barbosa, Robert J. White, et al.. (2019). Predicting hospital-onset Clostridium difficile using patient mobility data: A network approach. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 40(12). 1380–1386. 9 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2019). A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics. Applied Network Science. 4(1). 10 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, Marc Barthélemy, Gourab Ghoshal, et al.. (2018). Human mobility: Models and applications. Physics Reports. 734. 1–74. 647 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirkley, Alec, Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy, & Gourab Ghoshal. (2018). From the betweenness centrality in street networks to structural invariants in random planar graphs. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2501–2501. 124 indexed citations
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Zand, Martin S., Christopher Fucile, Gourab Ghoshal, et al.. (2017). Properties of healthcare teaming networks as a function of network construction algorithms. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0175876–e0175876. 7 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2013). Strategies, Political Position, and Electoral Performance of Brazilian Political Parties. 50. 659–664. 1 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (2011). Migration and social networks — An explanatory multi-evolutionary agent-based model. 1–7. 17 indexed citations
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Neto, Fernando Buarque de Lima, et al.. (2009). Impact of communication on agent-based social simulations using the PAX framework. 10. 1425–1430. 2 indexed citations
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Neto, Fernando Buarque de Lima, et al.. (2009). Hybrid and Evolutionary Agent-Based Social Simulations Using the PAX Framework. 497–504. 2 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, et al.. (1992). Space Solar Power Program. STIN. 94. 11675. 2 indexed citations

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