Kevin O’Keeffe

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 952 citations indexed

About

Kevin O’Keeffe is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Condensed Matter Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin O’Keeffe has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 952 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 13 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kevin O’Keeffe's work include Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (22 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Kevin O’Keeffe is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (22 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Kevin O’Keeffe collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and South Korea. Kevin O’Keeffe's co-authors include Steven H. Strogatz, Hyunsuk Hong, Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti, Geoffrey B. West, Michael Szell, Markus Schläpfer, Hadrien Salat, Lei Dong and Dibakar Ghosh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kevin O’Keeffe

28 papers receiving 916 citations

Hit Papers

The universal visitation law of human mobility 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. The universal visitation law of human mobility
    2021 276 citations Markus Schläpfer, Lei Dong et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kevin O’Keeffe United States 15 472 259 243 204 107 29 952
Benno Tilch Germany 7 116 0.2× 181 0.7× 651 2.7× 275 1.3× 67 0.6× 7 1.4k
Asja Jelić Italy 7 85 0.2× 84 0.3× 53 0.2× 70 0.3× 35 0.3× 10 419
Sebastián Bouzat Argentina 14 166 0.4× 38 0.1× 79 0.3× 353 1.7× 24 0.2× 40 703
Ikuko Nishikawa Japan 12 304 0.6× 105 0.4× 7 0.0× 214 1.0× 66 0.6× 51 779
Andrew Ilachinski United States 6 97 0.2× 72 0.3× 16 0.1× 70 0.3× 41 0.4× 9 617
Dane Taylor United States 17 338 0.7× 14 0.1× 20 0.1× 413 2.0× 97 0.9× 46 1.3k
Dean Korošak Slovenia 15 68 0.1× 31 0.1× 21 0.1× 209 1.0× 63 0.6× 40 1.0k
Hisashi Murakami Japan 12 49 0.1× 24 0.1× 81 0.3× 80 0.4× 18 0.2× 47 507
Jens Starke Germany 15 101 0.2× 21 0.1× 25 0.1× 129 0.6× 27 0.3× 61 604
Ihor Lubashevsky Russia 12 29 0.1× 31 0.1× 251 1.0× 81 0.4× 34 0.3× 56 567

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin O’Keeffe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin O’Keeffe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kevin O’Keeffe. 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 Kevin O’Keeffe. The network helps show where Kevin O’Keeffe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin O’Keeffe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin O’Keeffe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin O’Keeffe 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 Kevin O’Keeffe. Kevin O’Keeffe 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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O’Keeffe, Kevin. (2025). Global synchronization theorem for coupled swarmalators. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 35(2). 4 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Dynamics of pulsating swarmalators on a ring. Physical review. E. 112(5). 54217–54217. 1 indexed citations
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Sar, Gourab Kumar, Kevin O’Keeffe, & Dibakar Ghosh. (2025). Effects of coupling range on the dynamics of swarmalators. Physical review. E. 111(2). 24206–24206. 5 indexed citations
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Sar, Gourab Kumar, Kevin O’Keeffe, & Dibakar Ghosh. (2023). Swarmalators on a ring with uncorrelated pinning. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 33(11). 16 indexed citations
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Sar, Gourab Kumar, Dibakar Ghosh, & Kevin O’Keeffe. (2023). Pinning in a system of swarmalators. Physical review. E. 107(2). 24215–24215. 41 indexed citations
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Hong, Hyunsuk, Kevin O’Keeffe, Jae Sung Lee, & Hyunggyu Park. (2023). Swarmalators with thermal noise. Physical Review Research. 5(2). 27 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Travel distance, frequency of return, and the spread of disease. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 14064–14064.
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Diverse behaviors in non-uniform chiral and non-chiral swarmalators. Nature Communications. 14(1). 940–940. 39 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin & Hyunsuk Hong. (2022). Swarmalators on a ring with distributed couplings. Physical review. E. 105(6). 64208–64208. 22 indexed citations
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Yoon, S. Y., Kevin O’Keeffe, J. F. F. Mendes, & A. V. Goltsev. (2022). Sync and Swarm: Solvable Model of Nonidentical Swarmalators. Physical Review Letters. 129(20). 208002–208002. 41 indexed citations
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Schläpfer, Markus, Lei Dong, Kevin O’Keeffe, et al.. (2021). The universal visitation law of human mobility. Nature. 593(7860). 522–527. 276 indexed citations breakdown →
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, et al.. (2021). Using reinforcement learning to minimize taxi idle times. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(4). 498–509. 5 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, Paolo Santi, Brandon Wang, & Carlo Ratti. (2020). Urban sensing as a random search process. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 562. 125307–125307. 5 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin & Christian Bettstetter. (2019). A review of swarmalators and their potential in bio-inspired computing. arXiv (Cornell University). 85–85. 3 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, et al.. (2018). Ring states in swarmalator systems. Physical review. E. 98(2). 22203–22203. 45 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, Hyunsuk Hong, & Steven H. Strogatz. (2017). Oscillators that sync and swarm. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1504–1504. 223 indexed citations
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Hong, Hyunsuk, Kevin O’Keeffe, & Steven H. Strogatz. (2016). Phase coherence induced by correlated disorder. Physical review. E. 93(2). 22219–22219. 15 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin & Steven H. Strogatz. (2016). Dynamics of a population of oscillatory and excitable elements. Physical review. E. 93(6). 62203–62203. 20 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin. (2016). Transient dynamics of pulse-coupled oscillators with nonlinear charging curves. Physical review. E. 93(3). 32203–32203. 3 indexed citations
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O’Keeffe, Kevin, P. L. Krapivsky, & Steven H. Strogatz. (2015). Synchronization as Aggregation: Cluster Kinetics of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators. Physical Review Letters. 115(6). 64101–64101. 17 indexed citations

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