Santo Fortunato

38.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
121 papers, 23.7k citations indexed

About

Santo Fortunato is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Molecular Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Santo Fortunato has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 23.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Santo Fortunato's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (68 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (51 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers). Santo Fortunato is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (68 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (51 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers). Santo Fortunato collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Germany. Santo Fortunato's co-authors include Andrea Lancichinetti, Filippo Radicchi, Claudio Castellano, Marc Barthélemy, Vittorio Loreto, János Kertész, José J. Ramasco, Alessandro Vespignani, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Santo Fortunato

120 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

Community detection in graphs 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2009 2008 2006 2009 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. Community detection in graphs
    2009 6.9k citations Santo Fortunato profile →
  2. Statistical physics of social dynamics
    2009 2.5k citations Claudio Castellano, Santo Fortunato et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
  3. Benchmark graphs for testing community detection algorithms
    2008 2.0k citations Andrea Lancichinetti, Santo Fortunato et al. Physical Review E profile →
  4. Resolution limit in community detection
    2006 1.9k citations Santo Fortunato, Marc Barthélemy profile →
  5. Community detection algorithms: A comparative analysis
    2009 1.5k citations Andrea Lancichinetti, Santo Fortunato Physical Review E profile →
  6. Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure in complex networks
    2009 1.2k citations Andrea Lancichinetti, Santo Fortunato et al. profile →
  7. Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks
    2011 838 citations Andrea Lancichinetti, Filippo Radicchi et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  8. Science of science
    2018 781 citations Santo Fortunato, Filippo Radicchi et al. profile →
  9. Benchmarks for testing community detection algorithms on directed and weighted graphs with overlapping communities
    2009 645 citations Andrea Lancichinetti, Santo Fortunato Physical Review E profile →
  10. Universality of citation distributions: Toward an objective measure of scientific impact
    2008 543 citations Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Santo Fortunato United States 46 16.1k 4.9k 3.3k 3.2k 2.9k 121 23.7k
Renaud Lambiotte United Kingdom 41 8.3k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.8× 150 19.6k
Michelle Girvan United States 25 12.5k 0.8× 5.4k 1.1× 3.7k 1.1× 3.7k 1.2× 1.9k 0.6× 70 22.2k
Vincent D. Blondel Belgium 43 6.3k 0.4× 3.6k 0.7× 3.4k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 150 21.9k
Tao Zhou China 69 13.0k 0.8× 5.5k 1.1× 3.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 499 22.1k
Vito Latora Italy 69 13.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.4× 5.7k 1.7× 2.6k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 219 28.3k
Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral United States 67 8.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.6× 4.0k 1.2× 1.8k 0.6× 205 33.8k
Linton C. Freeman United States 31 8.0k 0.5× 1.9k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 5.1k 1.7× 74 23.6k
Wei Chen China 48 5.4k 0.3× 4.2k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 439 21.1k
Katherine Faust United States 26 8.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 8.3k 2.9× 44 28.2k
Aaron Clauset United States 38 6.3k 0.4× 2.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 92 13.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Santo Fortunato

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Fields of papers citing papers by Santo Fortunato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Santo Fortunato

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Venturini, Sara, et al.. (2024). Collaboration and topic switches in science. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1258–1258. 4 indexed citations
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Radicchi, Filippo, et al.. (2024). Network community detection via neural embeddings. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9446–9446. 12 indexed citations
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Patwardhan, Siddharth, et al.. (2024). Symmetry breaking in optimal transport networks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3758–3758. 2 indexed citations
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Patwardhan, Siddharth, Filippo Radicchi, & Santo Fortunato. (2023). Influence maximization: Divide and conquer. Physical review. E. 107(5). 54306–54306. 1 indexed citations
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Patwardhan, Siddharth, et al.. (2023). Epidemic Spreading in Group-Structured Populations. Physical Review X. 13(4). 4 indexed citations
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Cao, Song, Christopher Churas, Dexter Pratt, et al.. (2020). Multiscale community detection in Cytoscape. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(10). e1008239–e1008239. 29 indexed citations
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Avena‐Koenigsberger, Andrea, Shannon L. Risacher, John D. West, et al.. (2019). Resting state network modularity along the prodromal late onset Alzheimer's disease continuum. NeuroImage Clinical. 22. 101687–101687. 43 indexed citations
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He, Ye, Sol Lim, Santo Fortunato, et al.. (2017). Reconfiguration of Cortical Networks in MDD Uncovered by Multiscale Community Detection with fMRI. Cerebral Cortex. 28(4). 1383–1395. 39 indexed citations
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Cantini, Laura, Enzo Médico, Santo Fortunato, & Michele Caselle. (2015). Detection of gene communities in multi-networks reveals cancer drivers. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17386–17386. 82 indexed citations
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Darst, Richard K., et al.. (2014). Community detection in networks: Structural communities versus ground truth. Physical Review E. 90(6). 142 indexed citations
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Fortunato, Santo, Michael W. Macy, & Sidney Redner. (2013). Statistical Mechanics and Social Sciences I. Journal of Statistical Physics. 151. 1–8. 15 indexed citations
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Fortunato, Santo & Claudio Castellano. (2012). Physics peeks into the ballot box. Physics Today. 65(10). 74–75. 6 indexed citations
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Whitwell, Robert L., et al.. (2012). Practice Reduces the Effect of a Ponzo Illusion on Precision Grasping but not Manual Estimation. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 1093–1093. 1 indexed citations
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Lancichinetti, Andrea, Filippo Radicchi, José J. Ramasco, & Santo Fortunato. (2011). Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e18961–e18961. 838 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fortunato, Santo & Andrea Lancichinetti. (2009). Community detection algorithms: a comparative analysis: invited presentation, extended abstract. 27. 32 indexed citations
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Menezes, Ronaldo, Santo Fortunato, Giuseppe Mangioni, & Vincenzo Nicosia. (2009). Complex Networks: Results of the 1st International Workshop on Complex Networks - CompleNet 2009. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Castellano, Claudio, Santo Fortunato, & Vittorio Loreto. (2009). Statistical physics of social dynamics. Reviews of Modern Physics. 81(2). 591–646. 2527 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lancichinetti, Andrea, Santo Fortunato, & Filippo Radicchi. (2008). New benchmark in community detection. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Andronico, Giuseppe, Antonio Coniglio, & Santo Fortunato. (2002). 1 A Geometrical Interpretation of Hyperscaling Breaking in the Ising Model ∗. 2 indexed citations
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Colucci, Giuseppe, Francesco Giuliani, Vittorio Gebbia, et al.. (1999). Epirubicin, Folinic Acid, Fluorouracil, and Etoposide in the Treatment of Advanced Gastric Cancer. American Journal of Clinical Oncology. 22(3). 262–266. 5 indexed citations

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