Vittoria Colizza

20.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
145 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Vittoria Colizza is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Vittoria Colizza has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 54 papers in Epidemiology and 41 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Vittoria Colizza's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (89 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (30 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (30 papers). Vittoria Colizza is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (89 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (30 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (30 papers). Vittoria Colizza collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Vittoria Colizza's co-authors include Alessandro Vespignani, Alain Barrat, Chiara Poletto, José J. Ramasco, Marc Barthélemy, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan, Hao Hu, Pierre‐Yves Boëlle and Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Vittoria Colizza

141 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2020 2006 2006 2007 250 500 750
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. Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases
    2009 913 citations Duygu Balcan, Vittoria Colizza et al. profile →
  2. Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against importations of COVID-19: a modelling study
    2020 785 citations Giulia Pullano, Eugenio Valdano et al. profile →
  3. The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics
    2006 783 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat et al. profile →
  4. Detecting rich-club ordering in complex networks
    2006 659 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Flammini et al. Nature Physics profile →
  5. Reaction–diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks
    2007 597 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani et al. Nature Physics profile →
  6. Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks
    2010 535 citations Ciro Cattuto, Wouter Van den Broeck et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  7. Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions
    2007 509 citations Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat 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
Vittoria Colizza France 46 5.4k 3.5k 2.5k 1.7k 1.7k 145 11.6k
Stephen Eubank United States 31 2.5k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 752 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 98 8.5k
Matt J. Keeling United Kingdom 61 7.6k 1.4× 2.6k 0.7× 3.7k 1.5× 5.6k 3.3× 3.6k 2.2× 255 17.3k
Alain Barrat France 58 2.8k 0.5× 10.1k 2.9× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 478 0.3× 170 17.3k
Lauren Ancel Meyers United States 48 3.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 1.8k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.3× 162 9.7k
Dirk Brockmann Germany 25 2.0k 0.4× 1.7k 0.5× 846 0.3× 670 0.4× 468 0.3× 71 6.1k
Madhav Marathe United States 47 2.7k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 680 0.4× 865 0.5× 332 9.3k
Stefano Merler Italy 46 5.1k 0.9× 588 0.2× 2.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 157 9.2k
Marco Ajelli United States 42 5.6k 1.0× 630 0.2× 2.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 2.8k 1.7× 128 8.6k
M. Elizabeth Halloran United States 49 6.5k 1.2× 623 0.2× 4.6k 1.8× 2.5k 1.5× 4.4k 2.6× 161 13.0k
José J. Ramasco Spain 38 1.5k 0.3× 2.6k 0.7× 922 0.4× 470 0.3× 235 0.1× 116 7.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Domenico, Laura Di, Yair Goldberg, & Vittoria Colizza. (2024). Planning and adjusting the COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign to reduce disease burden. Infectious Disease Modelling. 10(1). 150–162.
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Gutiérrez, Bernardo, Joseph L.-H. Tsui, Giulia Pullano, et al.. (2024). Routes of importation and spatial dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants during localized interventions in Chile. PNAS Nexus. 3(11). pgae483–pgae483.
3.
Fiorentin, Michele Re, et al.. (2024). Estimates of the reproduction ratio from epidemic surveillance may be biased in spatially structured populations. Nature Physics. 20(7). 1204–1210. 6 indexed citations
4.
Neto, Onício Leal, Daniela Paolotti, Craig Dalton, et al.. (2023). Enabling Multicentric Participatory Disease Surveillance for Global Health Enhancement: Viewpoint on Global Flu View. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 9. e46644–e46644. 5 indexed citations
5.
Torneri, Andrea, Lander Willem, Vittoria Colizza, et al.. (2022). Controlling SARS-CoV-2 in schools using repetitive testing strategies. eLife. 11. 7 indexed citations
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Colizza, Vittoria, et al.. (2022). Impact of contact data resolution on the evaluation of interventions in mathematical models of infectious diseases. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 19(191). 20220164–20220164. 6 indexed citations
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Lemey, Philippe, Nick Ruktanonchai, Samuel L. Hong, et al.. (2021). Untangling introductions and persistence in COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. Nature. 595(7869). 713–717. 89 indexed citations
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Colizza, Vittoria, et al.. (2021). Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations. eLife. 10. 5 indexed citations
9.
Debin, Marion, Thierry Blanchon, Vittoria Colizza, et al.. (2021). Perceived risk of opioid use disorder secondary to opioid analgesic medication use by the general population in France. European Journal of Pain. 26(3). 729–739. 3 indexed citations
10.
Betsch, Cornelia, et al.. (2020). A vision for actionable science in a pandemic. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4960–4960. 3 indexed citations
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Boëlle, Pierre‐Yves, Cécile Souty, Caroline Guerrisi, et al.. (2020). Excess cases of influenza-like illnesses synchronous with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic, France, March 2020. Eurosurveillance. 25(14). 36 indexed citations
12.
Serra‐Cobo, Jordi, Raphaëlle Métras, Andrea Apolloni, et al.. (2019). Mechanisms for lyssavirus persistence in non-synanthropic bats in Europe: insights from a modeling study. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 537–537. 20 indexed citations
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Colizza, Vittoria, Caroline Guerrisi, Clément Turbelin, et al.. (2017). Influenzanet: Citizens Among 10 Countries Collaborating to Monitor Influenza in Europe. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 3(3). e66–e66. 52 indexed citations
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Sarazin, Marianne, Marion Debin, Jocelyn Raude, et al.. (2015). Opinion about seasonal influenza vaccination among the general population 3 years after the A(H1N1)pdm2009 influenza pandemic. Vaccine. 33(48). 6849–6854. 14 indexed citations
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Apolloni, Andrea, Chiara Poletto, & Vittoria Colizza. (2013). Age-specific contacts and travel patterns in the spatial spread of 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. BMC Infectious Diseases. 13(1). 176–176. 59 indexed citations
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Tizzoni, Michele, Paolo Bajardi, Chiara Poletto, et al.. (2012). Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm. BMC Medicine. 10(1). 165–165. 183 indexed citations
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Bajardi, Paolo, Chiara Poletto, José J. Ramasco, et al.. (2011). Human Mobility Networks, Travel Restrictions, and the Global Spread of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e16591–e16591. 353 indexed citations
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Cattuto, Ciro, Wouter Van den Broeck, Alain Barrat, et al.. (2010). Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11596–e11596. 535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Colizza, Vittoria, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra, et al.. (2009). Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model. PLoS Currents. 1. RRN1129–RRN1129. 18 indexed citations
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Flammini, Alessandro, et al.. (2007). Rich-club ordering in complex networks. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 32(8). 885–894. 2 indexed citations

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