Simon Garnier

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Garnier is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Garnier has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Garnier's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (29 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (20 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Simon Garnier is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (29 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (20 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Simon Garnier collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Simon Garnier's co-authors include Guy Théraulaz, Mehdi Moussaïd, Dirk Helbing, Niriaska Perozo, Jacques Gautrais, Iain D. Couzin, Chris R. Reid, David J. T. Sumpter, Noam Miller and Maud Combe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simon Garnier

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
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. The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics
    2010 741 citations Mehdi Moussaïd, Niriaska Perozo et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Garnier United States 24 710 481 452 419 397 57 2.7k
Jacques Gautrais France 30 128 0.2× 862 1.8× 771 1.7× 340 0.8× 514 1.3× 65 3.1k
Andrea Procaccini Italy 10 175 0.2× 508 1.1× 436 1.0× 264 0.6× 715 1.8× 12 2.3k
Alberto Orlandi Italy 7 175 0.2× 507 1.1× 336 0.7× 263 0.6× 714 1.8× 8 2.0k
Camille Buhl Australia 21 138 0.2× 927 1.9× 842 1.9× 294 0.7× 497 1.3× 38 2.5k
Daniel Grünbaum United States 29 251 0.4× 615 1.3× 468 1.0× 318 0.8× 738 1.9× 65 3.4k
Alcherio Martinoli Switzerland 36 397 0.6× 200 0.4× 342 0.8× 240 0.6× 1.9k 4.8× 202 5.1k
Edward A. Codling United Kingdom 28 391 0.6× 510 1.1× 419 0.9× 219 0.5× 122 0.3× 66 3.1k
Richard P. Mann United Kingdom 26 90 0.1× 812 1.7× 407 0.9× 536 1.3× 290 0.7× 76 2.2k
Máté Nagy Hungary 19 110 0.2× 447 0.9× 307 0.7× 212 0.5× 465 1.2× 33 1.8k
Anna Zafeiris Hungary 5 187 0.3× 130 0.3× 164 0.4× 201 0.5× 639 1.6× 8 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Garnier

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Garnier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Garnier

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

All Works

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McLean, Donald James, et al.. (2024). Leaderless consensus decision-making determines cooperative transport direction in weaver ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2028). 20232367–20232367. 4 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon, et al.. (2023). Motile Living Biobots Self‐Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells. Advanced Science. 11(4). e2303575–e2303575. 25 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon, et al.. (2023). A simple mechanism for collective decision-making in the absence of payoff information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(29). e2216217120–e2216217120. 7 indexed citations
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Fürtbauer, Ines, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of collective motion across time and species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1874). 20220068–20220068. 17 indexed citations
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Puga‐Gonzalez, Ivan, Phyllis C. Lee, Cynthia J. Moss, et al.. (2022). Simulated poaching affects global connectivity and efficiency in social networks of African savanna elephants—An exemplar of how human disturbance impacts group-living species. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(1). e1009792–e1009792. 5 indexed citations
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Lutz, Matthew J., et al.. (2021). Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 7 indexed citations
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Blackiston, Douglas, et al.. (2021). A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines. Science Robotics. 6(52). 110 indexed citations
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Rowland, Michael A., Andrew M. Hein, Jie Sun, et al.. (2020). Decoding collective communications using information theory tools. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(164). 20190563–20190563. 27 indexed citations
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Ray, Dylan D., et al.. (2020). Collective Pulsing in Xeniid Corals: Part I—Using Computer Vision and Information Theory to Search for Coordination. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 82(7). 90–90. 1 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon & Daniel J. C. Kronauer. (2017). The adaptive significance of phasic colony cycles in army ants. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 428. 43–47. 5 indexed citations
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Graham, Jason M., et al.. (2017). Optimal construction of army ant living bridges. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 435. 184–198. 14 indexed citations
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Pérez, María, Marco A. Fontelos, & Simon Garnier. (2015). From individual to collective dynamics in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile). Mathematical Biosciences. 262. 56–64. 7 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon, Maud Combe, Christian Jost, & Guy Théraulaz. (2013). Do Ants Need to Estimate the Geometrical Properties of Trail Bifurcations to Find an Efficient Route? A Swarm Robotics Test Bed. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002903–e1002903. 35 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon, et al.. (2013). Stability and Responsiveness in a Self-Organized Living Architecture. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002984–e1002984. 28 indexed citations
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Campo, Alexandre, et al.. (2011). Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e19888–e19888. 26 indexed citations
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Moussaïd, Mehdi, Niriaska Perozo, Simon Garnier, Dirk Helbing, & Guy Théraulaz. (2010). The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics. PLoS ONE. 5(4). e10047–e10047. 741 indexed citations breakdown →
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Campo, Alexandre, Álvaro Gutiérrez, Shervin Nouyan, et al.. (2010). Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots. Biological Cybernetics. 103(5). 339–352. 57 indexed citations
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Moussaïd, Mehdi, Simon Garnier, Guy Théraulaz, & Dirk Helbing. (2009). Collective Information Processing and Pattern Formation in Swarms, Flocks, and Crowds. Topics in Cognitive Science. 1(3). 469–497. 152 indexed citations
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Garnier, Simon, et al.. (2005). Collective decision-making by a group of cockroach-like robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 233–240. 18 indexed citations

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