Mauro Copelli

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Mauro Copelli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Mauro Copelli has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 27 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Mauro Copelli's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (49 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (31 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (27 papers). Mauro Copelli is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (49 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (31 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (27 papers). Mauro Copelli collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Spain and United States. Mauro Copelli's co-authors include Osame Kinouchi, Sidarta Ribeiro, Natália Bezerra Mota, Guillermo Cecchi, Mariano Sigman, Pedro V. Carelli, Facundo Carrillo, Diego Fernández Slezak, Gillinder Bedi and Daniel C. Javitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Mauro Copelli

82 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Optimal dynamical range of excitable networks at criticality

2006 515 citations Osame Kinouchi, Mauro Copelli profile →
Automated analysis of free speech predicts psychosis onset in high-risk youths

2015 421 citations Guillermo Cecchi, Diego Fernández Slezak et al. Schizophrenia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mauro Copelli Brazil	25	1.8k	800	475	418	394	84	2.9k
Guillermo Cecchi United States	36	2.7k 1.5×	661 0.8×	868 1.8×	744 1.8×	801 2.0×	171	5.8k
Klaus Linkenkaer‐Hansen Netherlands	35	4.8k 2.7×	441 0.6×	249 0.5×	271 0.6×	611 1.6×	73	5.6k
Michael Wibral Germany	41	5.2k 2.9×	495 0.6×	480 1.0×	308 0.7×	503 1.3×	97	6.9k
Adam B. Barrett United Kingdom	27	2.6k 1.4×	353 0.4×	361 0.8×	1.0k 2.5×	763 1.9×	46	4.5k
John R. Terry United Kingdom	35	2.1k 1.2×	703 0.9×	130 0.3×	408 1.0×	107 0.3×	97	4.3k
Joydeep Bhattacharya United Kingdom	37	3.5k 2.0×	369 0.5×	392 0.8×	152 0.4×	1.2k 3.1×	134	4.9k
Sophie Achard France	19	5.6k 3.1×	377 0.5×	196 0.4×	510 1.2×	1.1k 2.9×	70	6.6k
Richard F. Betzel United States	38	5.9k 3.3×	424 0.5×	215 0.5×	329 0.8×	1.2k 3.1×	90	6.7k
Petra E. Vértes United Kingdom	33	3.5k 2.0×	311 0.4×	154 0.3×	427 1.0×	741 1.9×	62	5.0k
Walter Freeman United States	45	4.1k 2.3×	684 0.9×	996 2.1×	197 0.5×	231 0.6×	186	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mauro Copelli

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Vasconcelos, Nivaldo A. P. de, et al.. (2025). Criticality at Work: Scaling in the Mouse Cortex Enhances Performance. 3(3).

Copelli, Mauro, et al.. (2024). Maximum-entropy-based metrics for quantifying critical dynamics in spiking neuron data. Physical review. E. 110(2). 24401–24401. 1 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Cilene, et al.. (2023). Grammatical impairment in schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the pronominal and sentential domains. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0291446–e0291446. 4 indexed citations

Marin, Bóris, et al.. (2023). Unconventional criticality, scaling breakdown, and diverse universality classes in the Wilson-Cowan model of neural dynamics. Physical review. E. 108(3). 34110–34110. 1 indexed citations

Rosso, Osvaldo A., et al.. (2021). Statistical complexity is maximized close to criticality in cortical dynamics. Physical review. E. 103(1). 12415–12415. 15 indexed citations

Mota, Natália Bezerra, Janaína Weissheimer, Guillermo Cecchi, et al.. (2020). Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242903–e0242903. 46 indexed citations

Vasconcelos, Nivaldo A. P. de, Carina Soares‐Cunha, Bárbara Coimbra, et al.. (2020). Signatures of brain criticality unveiled by maximum entropy analysis across cortical states. Physical review. E. 102(1). 12408–12408. 9 indexed citations

Mota, Natália Bezerra, Mariano Sigman, Diego Fernández Slezak, et al.. (2020). The History of Writing Reflects the Effects of Education on Discourse Structure: Implications for Literacy, Orality, Psychosis and the Axial Age. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. 21. 100142–100142. 3 indexed citations

Porta, Leonardo Dalla & Mauro Copelli. (2019). Modeling neuronal avalanches and long-range temporal correlations at the emergence of collective oscillations: Continuously varying exponents mimic M/EEG results. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006924–e1006924. 42 indexed citations

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Santos, Fernando A. N., Ernesto P. Raposo, M. D. Coutinho-Filho, et al.. (2019). Topological phase transitions in functional brain networks. Physical review. E. 100(3). 32414–32414. 49 indexed citations

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Mota, Natália Bezerra, et al.. (2018). Post-class naps boost declarative learning in a naturalistic school setting. npj Science of Learning. 3(1). 14–14. 19 indexed citations

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Mota, Natália Bezerra, Mauro Copelli, & Sidarta Ribeiro. (2017). Thought disorder measured as random speech structure classifies negative symptoms and schizophrenia diagnosis 6 months in advance. Schizophrenia. 3(1). 18–18. 110 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Tiago L., Sidarta Ribeiro, & Mauro Copelli. (2016). Repertoires of Spike Avalanches Are Modulated by Behavior and Novelty. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 10. 16–16. 12 indexed citations

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Mota, Natália Bezerra, et al.. (2014). Graph analysis of dream reports is especially informative about psychosis. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 3691–3691. 92 indexed citations

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Matias, Fernanda S., Leonardo L. Gollo, Pedro V. Carelli, et al.. (2014). Modeling positive Granger causality and negative phase lag between cortical areas. NeuroImage. 99. 411–418. 40 indexed citations

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Copelli, Mauro, et al.. (2013). Synaptic Symmetry Increases Coherence in a Pair of Excitable Electronic Neurons. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82051–e82051. 2 indexed citations

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Mota, Natália Bezerra, Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos, Osame Kinouchi, et al.. (2012). Speech Graphs Provide a Quantitative Measure of Thought Disorder in Psychosis. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34928–e34928. 165 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Tiago L. & Mauro Copelli. (2008). Deterministic excitable media under Poisson drive: Power law responses, spiral waves, and dynamic range. Physical Review E. 77(5). 51911–51911. 17 indexed citations

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Kinouchi, Osame & Mauro Copelli. (2006). Physics of Psychophysics: Dynamic Range of Excitable Networks is Optimized at Criticality. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Copelli, Mauro. (1997). Noise robustness in the perceptron.. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 1 indexed citations

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