Mikko Kivelä

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Mikko Kivelä is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Transportation and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikko Kivelä has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 8 papers in Transportation and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mikko Kivelä's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (34 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (32 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (8 papers). Mikko Kivelä is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (34 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (32 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (8 papers). Mikko Kivelä collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and France. Mikko Kivelä's co-authors include Mason A. Porter, Àlex Arenas, Yamir Moreno, James P. Gleeson, Marc Barthélemy, Jari Saramäki, Kimmo Kaski, János Kertész, Jukka‐Pekka Onnela and Márton Karsai 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

Mikko Kivelä

48 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Multilayer networks

2014 2.0k citations Mikko Kivelä, Àlex Arenas et al. profile →
Small but slow world: How network topology and burstiness slow down spreading

2011 399 citations Márton Karsai, Mikko Kivelä et al. Physical Review E profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mikko Kivelä Finland	19	2.4k	667	574	465	430	50	4.0k
James P. Gleeson Ireland	31	3.1k 1.3×	806 1.2×	768 1.3×	435 0.9×	508 1.2×	116	5.5k
Manlio De Domenico Italy	32	2.3k 1.0×	615 0.9×	928 1.6×	655 1.4×	614 1.4×	111	5.0k
Lazaros K. Gallos United States	21	3.0k 1.2×	608 0.9×	416 0.7×	349 0.8×	573 1.3×	57	4.3k
M. Ángeles Serrano Spain	29	2.7k 1.1×	438 0.7×	417 0.7×	345 0.7×	568 1.3×	69	4.2k
Vincenzo Nicosia United Kingdom	25	1.7k 0.7×	732 1.1×	321 0.6×	327 0.7×	433 1.0×	67	3.4k
Sune Lehmann Denmark	32	2.0k 0.8×	494 0.7×	855 1.5×	654 1.4×	454 1.1×	102	4.8k
Francisco A. Rodrigues Brazil	28	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	416 0.7×	587 1.3×	561 1.3×	131	5.0k
Beom Jun Kim South Korea	29	3.0k 1.3×	1.4k 2.1×	684 1.2×	321 0.7×	440 1.0×	160	5.2k
Mark Newman United Kingdom	21	2.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	851 1.5×	787 1.7×	770 1.8×	71	7.1k
Zengru Di China	28	1.7k 0.7×	612 0.9×	262 0.5×	382 0.8×	542 1.3×	173	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Mikko Kivelä

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikko Kivelä

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2025). Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(28). e2421460122–e2421460122. 1 indexed citations

Stegehuis, Clara, et al.. (2025). Homophily within and across groups. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11351–11351. 1 indexed citations

Gleeson, James P., et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of contact tracing on networks with cliques. Physical review. E. 109(2). 24303–24303. 3 indexed citations

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2024). pymnet: A Python Library for MultilayerNetworks. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(99). 6930–6930. 1 indexed citations

Kanniainen, Juho, et al.. (2023). Investor trade allocation patterns in stock markets. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 210. 191–209.

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2023). Reticula: A temporal network and hypergraph analysis software package. SoftwareX. 21. 101301–101301. 6 indexed citations

Karsai, Márton, et al.. (2022). Directed percolation in temporal networks. Physical Review Research. 4(2). 8 indexed citations

Karsai, Márton, et al.. (2022). Directed percolation in random temporal network models with heterogeneities. Physical review. E. 105(5). 54313–54313. 7 indexed citations

Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2022). Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily. Physical review. E. 105(5). L052301–L052301. 24 indexed citations

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Gauvin, Laëtitia, Mathieu Génois, Márton Karsai, et al.. (2022). Randomized Reference Models for Temporal Networks. SIAM Review. 64(4). 763–830. 32 indexed citations

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Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2022). Epidemic spreading and digital contact tracing: Effects of heterogeneous mixing and quarantine failures. Physical review. E. 105(4). 44313–44313. 13 indexed citations

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Barrat, Alain, Ciro Cattuto, Mikko Kivelä, Sune Lehmann, & Jari Saramäki. (2021). Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(178). 59 indexed citations

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Karsai, Márton, et al.. (2021). Source code and for "Directed Percolation in Temporal Networks" and "Directed Percolation in Random Temporal Network Models with Heterogeneities". Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Karsai, Márton, et al.. (2020). Efficient limited-time reachability estimation in temporal networks. Physical review. E. 101(5). 52303–52303. 14 indexed citations

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Kivelä, Mikko, et al.. (2017). Mapping temporal-network percolation to weighted, static event graphs. arXiv (Cornell University). 23 indexed citations

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Cozzo, Emanuele, Mikko Kivelä, Manlio De Domenico, et al.. (2013). Clustering Coefficients in Multiplex Networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations

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Toivonen, Riitta, et al.. (2012). Networks of Emotion Concepts. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e28883–e28883. 33 indexed citations

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Lancichinetti, Andrea, Mikko Kivelä, Jari Saramäki, & Santo Fortunato. (2010). Characterizing the Community Structure of Complex Networks. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e11976–e11976. 173 indexed citations

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Toivonen, Riitta, Lauri Kovanen, Mikko Kivelä, et al.. (2008). A comparative study of stochastic algorithmic models for social networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Saramäki, Jari, Mikko Kivelä, Jukka‐Pekka Onnela, Kimmo Kaski, & János Kertész. (2007). Generalizations of the clustering coefficient to weighted complex networks. Physical Review E. 75(2). 27105–27105. 461 indexed citations

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