Nicolás Velásquez

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 891 citations indexed

About

Nicolás Velásquez is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolás Velásquez has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 891 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nicolás Velásquez's work include Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 papers). Nicolás Velásquez is often cited by papers focused on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 papers). Nicolás Velásquez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and France. Nicolás Velásquez's co-authors include Neil F. Johnson, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Rhys Leahy, Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Stefan Wuchty, Yonatan Lupu, Nicholas Gabriel, Sara El Oud and Ariel C. Armony and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nicolás Velásquez

15 papers receiving 835 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views

2020 421 citations Neil F. Johnson, Nicolás Velásquez et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolás Velásquez United States	10	565	329	245	147	130	15	891
Nicholas J. Restrepo United States	8	497 0.9×	326 1.0×	234 1.0×	130 0.9×	102 0.8×	15	775
Rhys Leahy United States	7	481 0.9×	322 1.0×	231 0.9×	128 0.9×	98 0.8×	10	751
Pedro D. Manrique United States	10	481 0.9×	284 0.9×	158 0.6×	114 0.8×	153 1.2×	36	810
Nicholas Gabriel United States	4	362 0.6×	286 0.9×	147 0.6×	59 0.4×	63 0.5×	6	557
Tonmoy Sarkar Australia	2	636 1.1×	437 1.3×	167 0.7×	125 0.9×	42 0.3×	4	1.0k
Sazzad Hossain Khan Bangladesh	5	640 1.1×	457 1.4×	167 0.7×	125 0.9×	42 0.3×	8	1.0k
Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal Australia	6	646 1.1×	458 1.4×	167 0.7×	125 0.9×	42 0.3×	7	1.1k
Lulwah Alkulaib United States	4	526 0.9×	290 0.9×	215 0.9×	125 0.9×	50 0.4×	11	694
S. M. Murshid Hasan Bangladesh	7	645 1.1×	457 1.4×	167 0.7×	125 0.9×	42 0.3×	11	1.1k
Mohammad Ariful Islam Bangladesh	6	448 0.8×	201 0.6×	126 0.5×	98 0.7×	34 0.3×	17	714

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolás Velásquez

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Lupu, Yonatan, Richard Sear, Nicolás Velásquez, et al.. (2023). Offline events and online hate. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0278511–e0278511. 25 indexed citations

Velásquez, Nicolás, Pedro D. Manrique, Richard Sear, et al.. (2021). Hidden order across online extremist movements can be disrupted by nudging collective chemistry. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 9965–9965. 4 indexed citations

Velásquez, Nicolás, Rhys Leahy, Nicholas J. Restrepo, et al.. (2021). Online hate network spreads malicious COVID-19 content outside the control of individual social media platforms. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 11549–11549. 44 indexed citations

Sear, Richard, Nicolás Velásquez, Rhys Leahy, et al.. (2020). Quantifying COVID-19 Content in the Online Health Opinion War Using Machine Learning. IEEE Access. 8. 91886–91893. 84 indexed citations

Broniatowski, David, Amelia Jamison, Neil F. Johnson, et al.. (2020). Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019. American Journal of Public Health. 110(S3). S312–S318. 32 indexed citations

Johnson, Neil F., Nicolás Velásquez, Nicholas J. Restrepo, et al.. (2020). The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views. Nature. 582(7811). 230–233. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

Johnson, Neil F., Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, et al.. (2019). Emergent dynamics of extremes in a population driven by common information sources and new social media algorithms. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11895–11895. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Neil F., Rhys Leahy, Nicholas J. Restrepo, et al.. (2019). Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology. Nature. 573(7773). 261–265. 123 indexed citations

Johnson, Neil F., Minzhang Zheng, Hong Qi, et al.. (2016). New online ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond. Science. 352(6292). 1459–1463. 70 indexed citations

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Armony, Ariel C. & Nicolás Velásquez. (2016). A HONEYMOON WITH CHINA? PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND BRAZIL. 2(2). 17–34. 4 indexed citations

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Armony, Ariel C. & Nicolás Velásquez. (2015). Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Latin America: An Analysis of Online Discourse. Journal of Chinese Political Science. 20(3). 319–346. 44 indexed citations

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Velásquez, Nicolás, et al.. (2014). R-07: Pratique du « Slam » chez les HSH séropositifs pour le VIH. Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses. 44(6). 91–92. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Neil F., Pablo Medina, Guannan Zhao, et al.. (2013). Simple mathematical law benchmarks human confrontations. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 3463–3463. 24 indexed citations

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Velásquez, Nicolás, et al.. (2013). Resource Letter MPCVW-1: Modeling Political Conflict, Violence, and Wars: A Survey. American Journal of Physics. 81(11). 805–814. 3 indexed citations

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Manrique, Pedro D., et al.. (2013). Context matters: Improving the uses of big data for forecasting civil unrest: Emerging phenomena and big data. 169–172. 9 indexed citations

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