Vito Latora

41.8k total citations · 14 hit papers
219 papers, 28.3k citations indexed

About

Vito Latora is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Networks and Communications and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vito Latora has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 28.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 38 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 33 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Vito Latora's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (96 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (73 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (25 papers). Vito Latora is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (96 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (73 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (25 papers). Vito Latora collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Vito Latora's co-authors include Massimo Marchiori, Yamir Moreno, Mario Chávez, Stefano Boccaletti, Dong‐Uk Hwang, Paolo Crucitti, Vincenzo Nicosia, Sergio Porta, Andrea Rapisarda and Federico Battiston and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Vito Latora

213 papers receiving 27.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Complex networks: Structure and dynamics

2006 7.6k citations Stefano Boccaletti, Vito Latora et al. Physics Reports profile →
Efficient Behavior of Small-World Networks

2001 3.7k citations Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori Physical Review Letters profile →
Model for cascading failures in complex networks

2004 856 citations Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori et al. Physical Review E profile →
Economic small-world behavior in weighted networks

2003 566 citations Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori profile →
The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach

2006 547 citations Vito Latora et al. profile →
The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

2021 520 citations Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico et al. Nature Physics profile →
Modeling cascading failures in the North American power grid

2005 512 citations Vito Latora et al. profile →
Structural measures for multiplex networks

2014 472 citations Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia et al. Physical Review E profile →
Centrality measures in spatial networks of urban streets

2006 472 citations Vito Latora et al. Physical Review E profile →
Structural reducibility of multilayer networks

2015 396 citations Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora et al. Nature Communications profile →
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks

2021 343 citations Federico Battiston, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda et al. profile →
Stability of synchronization in simplicial complexes

2021 226 citations Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Mattia Frasca et al. Nature Communications profile →
Explosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks

2024 43 citations Federico Battiston, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Hyperedge overlap drives explosive transitions in systems with higher-order interactions

2025 16 citations Mattia Frasca, Vito Latora et al. Nature Communications profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The dynamics of higher-order novelties 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Iacopo Iacopini, Vito Latora	2
2	Explosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks breakdown → 2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Federico Battiston, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes, Vito Latora	43
3	Minimisation of metabolic networks defines a new functional class of genes 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Vito Latora, Grigoris D. Amoutzias, Daniela Delneri, Stephen G. Oliver, Giuseppe Nicosia	0
4	Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure 2023 ·Evolutionary Human Sciences ·Federico Musciotto, (unknown), Michael Greenacre, Álex Mira, Nikhil Chaudhary, Gül Deniz Salalι, Pascale Gerbault, (unknown), Leonora H. Astete, Marilyn Ngales, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes, Vito Latora, Federico Battiston, Jaume Bertranpetit, Lucio Vinicius, Andrea Bamberg Migliano	4
5	Collapse transition in epidemic spreading subject to detection with limited resources 2023 ·Physical review. E ·(unknown), (unknown), David Soriano‐Paños, Vito Latora, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes	5
6	Influential groups for seeding and sustaining nonlinear contagion in heterogeneous hypergraphs 2022 ·Communications Physics ·Guillaume St-Onge, Iacopo Iacopini, Vito Latora, Alain Barrat, Giovanni Petri, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert‐Dufresne	65
7	Hyper-diffusion on multiplex networks 2022 ·Journal of Physics Complexity ·(unknown), Vito Latora, Ginestra Bianconi	6
8	The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Physics ·Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico, Alain Barrat, Ginestra Bianconi, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Benedetta Franceschiello, Iacopo Iacopini, Sonia Kéfi, Vito Latora, Yamir Moreno, Micah M. Murray, Tiago P. Peixoto, Francesco Vaccarino, Giovanni Petri	520
9	Control Technique for Synchronization of Selected Nodes in Directed Networks 2019 ·IEEE Control Systems Letters ·(unknown), Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Vito Latora, Mattia Frasca	3
10	CREATIVE CONNECTIVITY PROJECT – A NETWORK BASED APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND CORRELATIONS BETWEEN INTERDISCIPLINARY GROUP DYNAMICS AND CREATIVE PERFORMANCE 2019 ·Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art) ·(unknown), (unknown), Iacopo Iacopini, Vito Latora, (unknown)	3
11	Distributed Control of Synchronization of a Group of Network Nodes 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ·Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Mattia Frasca, Vito Latora	38
12	Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture 2017 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Abigail E. Page, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes, Gül Deniz Salalι, Sylvain Viguier, Mark Dyble, James Thompson, Nikhil Chaudhary, (unknown), (unknown), Ruth Mace, Mark Thomas, Vito Latora, Lucio Vinicius	90
13	Metrics for the analysis of multiplex networks. 2013 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora	18
14	Distance matters: geo-social metrics for online social networks 2010 ·Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Vito Latora	135
15	Detecting complex network modularity by dynamical clustering 2007 ·Physical Review E ·Stefano Boccaletti, Mikhail Ivanchenko, Vito Latora, Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda	151
16	Complex networks: Structure and dynamics breakdown → 2006 ·Physics Reports ·Stefano Boccaletti, Vito Latora, Yamir Moreno, Mario Chávez, Dong‐Uk Hwang	7588
17	Spin-Glass phase in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model 2003 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Alessandro Pluchino, Vito Latora, Andrea Rapisarda	1
18	Is the Boston Subway a Small-World Network? 2002 ·Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori	351
19	The rate of entropy increase at the edge of chaos 2000 ·Vito Latora, Michel Baranger, Andrea Rapisarda, Constantino Tsallis, (unknown)	70
20	Generalization to nonextensive systems of the rate of entropy increase: The case of the logistic map 1999 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Vito Latora, Andrea Rapisarda, Constantino Tsallis, Michel Baranger	1

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