Jari Saramäki

13.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
100 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Jari Saramäki is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jari Saramäki has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 19 papers in Transportation and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jari Saramäki's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (51 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (41 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (17 papers). Jari Saramäki is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (51 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (41 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (17 papers). Jari Saramäki collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and Hungary. Jari Saramäki's co-authors include Kimmo Kaski, Petter Holme, János Kertész, Jukka‐Pekka Onnela, Mikko Kivelä, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Raj Kumar Pan, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, David Lazer and Gábor Szabó and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jari Saramäki

97 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

4 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.

Temporal networks

2012 1.7k citations Jari Saramäki et al. profile →
Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks

2007 1.2k citations Jukka‐Pekka Onnela, Jari Saramäki et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Intensity and coherence of motifs in weighted complex networks

2005 767 citations Jari Saramäki, János Kertész et al. Physical Review E profile →
Small but slow world: How network topology and burstiness slow down spreading

2011 399 citations Márton Karsai, Mikko Kivelä 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						Papers	Cites
Jari Saramäki Finland	34	4.6k	1.3k	1.1k	1.1k	1.0k	100	8.0k
Massimo Marchiori Italy	18	3.4k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	660 0.6×	2.2k 2.1×	558 0.6×	61	8.4k
Roger Guimerà Spain	32	5.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	910 0.8×	991 0.9×	546 0.5×	80	11.1k
János Kertész Hungary	52	5.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	698 0.6×	863 0.9×	237	12.1k
Mason A. Porter United States	49	5.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	2.4k 2.2×	366 0.4×	224	12.1k
Marián Boguñá Spain	39	6.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	889 0.8×	430 0.4×	269 0.3×	93	8.5k
Ginestra Bianconi United Kingdom	48	5.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	901 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	209 0.2×	192	9.4k
Martin Rosvall Sweden	27	3.8k 0.8×	803 0.6×	523 0.5×	457 0.4×	470 0.5×	81	7.0k
Petter Holme Sweden	44	6.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.8×	286 0.3×	831 0.8×	157	10.3k
Piet Van Mieghem Netherlands	48	5.1k 1.1×	3.0k 2.4×	638 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	240 0.2×	271	10.6k
Sergio Gómez Spain	30	3.7k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	615 0.6×	495 0.5×	286 0.3×	81	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jari Saramäki

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jari Saramäki

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jari Saramäki

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All Works

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Lahdenperä, Mirkka, et al.. (2025). Close and more distant relatives are associated with child mortality risk in historical Finland. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 7. e5–e5. 1 indexed citations

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2025). Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(28). e2421460122–e2421460122. 1 indexed citations

Salmi, Juha, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal single-subject neuroimaging study reveals effects of daily environmental, physiological, and lifestyle factors on functional brain connectivity. PLoS Biology. 22(10). e3002797–e3002797. 3 indexed citations

Kanniainen, Juho, et al.. (2023). Investor trade allocation patterns in stock markets. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 210. 191–209.

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2022). Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily. Physical review. E. 105(5). L052301–L052301. 24 indexed citations

Barrat, Alain, Ciro Cattuto, Mikko Kivelä, Sune Lehmann, & Jari Saramäki. (2021). Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(178). 59 indexed citations

Glerean, Enrico, et al.. (2020). Effects of spatial smoothing on group-level differences in functional brain networks. Network Neuroscience. 4(3). 556–574. 22 indexed citations

Glerean, Enrico, et al.. (2018). Regions of Interest as nodes of dynamic functional brain networks. Network Neuroscience. 2(4). 513–535. 8 indexed citations

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2017). Mapping temporal-network percolation to weighted, static event graphs. arXiv (Cornell University). 23 indexed citations

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Kivimäki, Ilkka, Bertrand Lebichot, Jari Saramäki, & Marco Saerens. (2016). Two betweenness centrality measures based on Randomized Shortest Paths. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19668–19668. 48 indexed citations

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Aledavood, Talayeh, Sune Lehmann, & Jari Saramäki. (2015). Digital daily cycles of individuals. Frontiers in Physics. 3. 28 indexed citations

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Jo, Hang-Hyun, Jari Saramäki, Robin Dunbar, & Kimmo Kaski. (2014). Dynamics of close relationships for the life-course migration.. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Toivonen, Riitta, et al.. (2012). Networks of Emotion Concepts. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e28883–e28883. 33 indexed citations

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Lancichinetti, Andrea, Mikko Kivelä, Jari Saramäki, & Santo Fortunato. (2010). Characterizing the Community Structure of Complex Networks. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e11976–e11976. 173 indexed citations

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Toivonen, Riitta, Lauri Kovanen, Mikko Kivelä, et al.. (2008). A comparative study of stochastic algorithmic models for social networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Kumpula, Jussi M., Mikko Kivelä, Kimmo Kaski, & Jari Saramäki. (2008). Sequential algorithm for fast clique percolation. Physical Review E. 78(2). 26109–26109. 157 indexed citations

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Kumpula, Jussi M., et al.. (2007). Emergence of communities in weighted complex networks. Physical Review Letters. 99(228701). 8 indexed citations

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Kumpula, Jussi M., Jari Saramäki, Kimmo Kaski, & János Kertész. (2006). Resolution limit in complex network community detection with Potts model approach. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Saramäki, Jari. (2005). A Method for Decentralised Optimisation in Networks. AIP conference proceedings. 776. 215–223. 1 indexed citations

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Saramäki, Jari & Kimmo Kaski. (2004). Scale-free networks generated by random walkers. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 341. 80–86. 69 indexed citations

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