Lars Bäckström

12.7k citations
35 papers · 7.2k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 25

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Lars Bäckström

35 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Structural diversity in social contagion 2012 · 412 citations
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Lars Bäckström
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  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.2k
  • Transportation 1.0k
  • Communication 577
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.2k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 364
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Lars Bäckström, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Group formation in large social networks
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20061153
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Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle
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2009943
3
Supervised random walks
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2011653
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Mapping the world's photos
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2009552
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Wherefore art thou r3579x?
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2007520
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Find me if you can
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2010493
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Microscopic evolution of social networks
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2008460
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Structural diversity in social contagion
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2012412
9 2010319
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Four degrees of separation
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2012292
11 1992233
12 1992161
13 2008134
14 1997130
15 2013105
16 201385
17 201380
18 201371
19 201070
20 201368

About Lars Bäckström

Lars Bäckström is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Communication, Media Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 35 papers that have together received 7.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers), Social Media and Politics (3 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (3 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (3 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (3 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (2 papers) and Advanced Graph Neural Networks (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.2k citations), Transportation (1.0k citations), Communication (577 citations), Artificial Intelligence (2.2k citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (364 citations). Lars Bäckström has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Cameron Marlow, D.P. Huttenlocher, Xiangyang Lan, Johan Ugander, David Crandall, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cynthia Dwork and Eric Sun. Their work appears in journals such as Experimental Brain Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Acta Paediatrica, Journal of Neurophysiology and Communications of the ACM.

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