Lars Bäckström

12.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
35 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Lars Bäckström is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Bäckström has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Lars Bäckström's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (3 papers). Lars Bäckström is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (3 papers). Lars Bäckström collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Lars Bäckström's co-authors include Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Cameron Marlow, Xiangyang Lan, D.P. Huttenlocher, Johan Ugander, David Crandall, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cynthia Dwork and Eric Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neurophysiology and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Lars Bäckström

35 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Group formation in large social networks

2006 1.2k citations Lars Bäckström, D.P. Huttenlocher et al. profile →
Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle

2009 943 citations Jure Leskovec, Lars Bäckström et al. profile →
Supervised random walks

2011 653 citations Lars Bäckström, Jure Leskovec profile →
Mapping the world's photos

2009 552 citations David Crandall, Lars Bäckström et al. profile →
Wherefore art thou r3579x?

2007 520 citations Lars Bäckström, Jon Kleinberg et al. profile →
Find me if you can

2010 493 citations Lars Bäckström, Cameron Marlow et al. profile →
Microscopic evolution of social networks

2008 460 citations Jure Leskovec, Lars Bäckström et al. profile →
Structural diversity in social contagion

2012 412 citations Johan Ugander, Lars Bäckström et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Four degrees of separation

2012 292 citations Lars Bäckström, Johan Ugander et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Bäckström United States	25	3.2k	2.2k	1.5k	1.3k	1.1k	35	7.2k
Mor Naaman United States	42	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.7×	1.7k 1.4×	458 0.4×	132	8.0k
Ed H. United States	49	1.2k 0.4×	3.3k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	3.8k 3.0×	684 0.7×	174	9.8k
Meeyoung Cha South Korea	32	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	3.7k 2.5×	2.3k 1.8×	2.6k 2.5×	153	9.5k
Xueqi Cheng China	52	2.5k 0.8×	7.2k 3.3×	759 0.5×	3.4k 2.7×	1.3k 1.2×	517	11.6k
Tony Jebara United States	33	932 0.3×	2.3k 1.0×	812 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	332 0.3×	103	6.4k
Hosung Park South Korea	15	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	117	5.0k
Peter Pirolli United States	46	1.1k 0.3×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	3.2k 2.5×	692 0.7×	137	9.6k
Belle L. Tseng United States	30	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	943 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	591 0.6×	69	4.5k
Hamed Haddadi United Kingdom	29	1.4k 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	108	5.3k
Niloy Ganguly India	31	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	903 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	759 0.7×	258	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Bäckström

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Bäckström

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Ugander, Johan, Brian Karrer, Lars Bäckström, & Jon Kleinberg. (2013). Graph cluster randomization. 329–337. 80 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, & Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. (2013). Characterizing and curating conversation threads. 13–22. 68 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars. (2012). Rätten till mineral : en studie om befogenheter och legala inskränkningar i äganderätten till fastighetens beståndsdelar. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Ugander, Johan, Lars Bäckström, Cameron Marlow, & Jon Kleinberg. (2012). Structural diversity in social contagion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(16). 5962–5966. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bäckström, Lars, et al.. (2011). Social media. 327–328. 9 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars & Jure Leskovec. (2011). Supervised random walks. 635–644. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Jonathan, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Bäckström, & Cameron Marlow. (2010). ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 4(1). 18–25. 70 indexed citations

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Crandall, David, Lars Bäckström, Dan Cosley, et al.. (2010). Inferring social ties from geographic coincidences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(52). 22436–22441. 319 indexed citations

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Leskovec, Jure, Lars Bäckström, & Jon Kleinberg. (2009). Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle. 497–506. 943 indexed citations breakdown →

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Crandall, David, Lars Bäckström, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, & Jon Kleinberg. (2009). Mapping the world's photos. 761–770. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bäckström, Lars, et al.. (2009). Optimizing web traffic via the media scheduling problem. 89–98. 11 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars, Jon Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, & Jasmine Novak. (2008). Spatial variation in search engine queries. 357–366. 134 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars, Ravi Kumar, Cameron Marlow, Jasmine Novak, & Andrew Tomkins. (2008). Preferential behavior in online groups. 117–117. 51 indexed citations

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Bäckström, Lars, D.P. Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, & Xiangyang Lan. (2006). Group formation in large social networks. 44–54. 1153 indexed citations breakdown →

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Caruana, Rich, Thorsten Joachims, & Lars Bäckström. (2004). KDD-Cup 2004. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter. 6(2). 95–108. 30 indexed citations

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Johansson, Roland S., Ronald Raymond Riso, Charlotte K. Häger, & Lars Bäckström. (1992). Somatosensory control of precision grip during unpredictable pulling loads. Experimental Brain Research. 89(1). 181–191. 233 indexed citations

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Johansson, Roland S., Charlotte K. Häger, & Lars Bäckström. (1992). Somatosensory control of precision grip during unpredictable pulling loads. Experimental Brain Research. 89(1). 204–213. 161 indexed citations

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Silfvenius, H., Magnus Olivecrona, Lars Forsgren, & Lars Bäckström. (1991). Disability Pensions for Epilepsy With or Without Mental Retardation: A 15‐Year Swedish Survey. Epilepsia. 32(5). 698–705. 3 indexed citations

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Edin, Benoni B., et al.. (1988). Single unit retrieval in microneurography: a microprocessor-based device controlled by an operator. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 24(2). 137–144. 62 indexed citations

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Nordgren, Bengt & Lars Bäckström. (1971). CORRELATIONS BETWEEN MUSCULAR STRENGTH AND INDUSTRIAL WORK PERFORMANCE IN MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS. Acta Paediatrica. 60(S217). 122–124. 12 indexed citations

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