Luis E. C. Rocha

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Luis E. C. Rocha is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis E. C. Rocha has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Luis E. C. Rocha's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (18 papers) and Data Visualization and Analytics (10 papers). Luis E. C. Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (32 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (18 papers) and Data Visualization and Analytics (10 papers). Luis E. C. Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Sweden and Brazil. Luis E. C. Rocha's co-authors include Petter Holme, Fredrik Liljeros, Paulino Ribeiro Villas-Boas, Lucas Antiqueira, Gonzalo Travieso, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Matheus P. Viana, Osvaldo N. Oliveira and Renaud Lambiotte and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Luis E. C. Rocha

53 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Analyzing and modeling real-world phenomena with complex networks: a survey of applications

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis E. C. Rocha Belgium	18	977	290	187	149	148	60	1.7k
Márton Karsai Hungary	22	1.4k 1.4×	408 1.4×	295 1.6×	245 1.6×	121 0.8×	76	2.1k
Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda Spain	16	865 0.9×	313 1.1×	225 1.2×	82 0.6×	84 0.6×	28	1.4k
Raj Kumar Pan Finland	20	895 0.9×	213 0.7×	199 1.1×	70 0.5×	69 0.5×	31	1.9k
Javier Borge‐Holthoefer Spain	22	1.2k 1.2×	474 1.6×	181 1.0×	155 1.0×	48 0.3×	66	2.0k
Luca Dall’Asta Italy	22	1.4k 1.4×	362 1.2×	434 2.3×	97 0.7×	102 0.7×	64	2.0k
Juliette Stehlé France	7	1.0k 1.0×	186 0.6×	210 1.1×	377 2.5×	115 0.8×	8	1.5k
Jukka-Pekka Onnela United States	10	1.0k 1.1×	178 0.6×	231 1.2×	50 0.3×	123 0.8×	13	2.4k
Gourab Ghoshal United States	20	761 0.8×	225 0.8×	211 1.1×	214 1.4×	82 0.6×	51	2.2k
Alessio Cardillo Spain	14	624 0.6×	226 0.8×	171 0.9×	78 0.5×	65 0.4×	25	1.8k
Lorenzo Isella Italy	14	921 0.9×	160 0.6×	190 1.0×	426 2.9×	119 0.8×	18	1.7k

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Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2025). Homophily promotes stable connections in co-offending networks but limits information diffusion: insights from a simulation study. Crime Science. 14(1).

Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2025). Critical node detection in temporal social networks, based on global and semi-local centrality measures. PLoS ONE. 20(8). e0327699–e0327699.

Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2025). Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks. Journal of Physics Complexity. 6(1). 15011–15011.

Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2024). On the potential of quantum walks for modeling financial return distributions. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 657. 130215–130215.

Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2024). Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case. EPJ Data Science. 13(1). 2 indexed citations

Rocha, Luis E. C., et al.. (2024). Bursts of communication increase opinion diversity in the temporal Deffuant model. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2222–2222. 4 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Ryota, Takeaki Uno, Takako Hashimoto, et al.. (2022). Evolution of Public Opinion on COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan: Large-Scale Twitter Data Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(12). e41928–e41928. 14 indexed citations

Buskens, Vincent, Jim van Steenbergen, Mirjam Kretzschmar, et al.. (2020). Clustering of chronic hepatitis B screening intentions in social networks of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 344–344.

Kretzschmar, Mirjam, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jim van Steenbergen, et al.. (2020). Applications and Recruitment Performance of Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(1). e17564–e17564. 17 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Long Hoang, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Mattias Larsson, et al.. (2020). An exploratory assessment of the preference for eHealth interventions to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men in Hanoi, Vietnam. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 1387–1387. 7 indexed citations

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Pereira, Fabíola S. F., et al.. (2019). A scalable node ordering strategy based on community structure for enhanced temporal network visualization. Computers & Graphics. 84. 185–198. 15 indexed citations

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Perra, Nicola & Luis E. C. Rocha. (2019). Modelling opinion dynamics in the age of algorithmic personalisation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7261–7261. 62 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Long Hoang, Bach Xuan Tran, Luis E. C. Rocha, et al.. (2019). A Systematic Review of eHealth Interventions Addressing HIV/STI Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex With Men. AIDS and Behavior. 23(9). 2253–2272. 68 indexed citations

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Rocha, Luis E. C.. (2017). Dynamics of air transport networks: A review from a complex systems perspective. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 30(2). 469–478. 3 indexed citations

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Delvenne, Jean‐Charles, Renaud Lambiotte, & Luis E. C. Rocha. (2013). Bottlenecks, burstiness, and fat tails regulate mixing times of non-Poissonian random walks. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Rocha, Luis E. C. & Vincent D. Blondel. (2013). Bursts of Vertex Activation and Epidemics in Evolving Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002974–e1002974. 84 indexed citations

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Rocha, Luis E. C. & Vincent D. Blondel. (2013). Flow motifs reveal limitations of the static framework to represent human interactions. Physical Review E. 87(4). 42814–42814. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Sung‐Min, Luis E. C. Rocha, Fredrik Liljeros, & Petter Holme. (2012). Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36439–e36439. 68 indexed citations

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Rocha, Luis E. C., Fredrik Liljeros, & Petter Holme. (2011). Simulated Epidemics in an Empirical Spatiotemporal Network of 50,185 Sexual Contacts. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(3). e1001109–e1001109. 197 indexed citations

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Araújo, Duarte, Keith Davids, Luis E. C. Rocha, Sidónio Serpa, & Orlando Fernandes. (2003). Decision-Making as Phase Transitions In Sport.. 2. 7 indexed citations

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