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20092026
most citedThe physics of spreading processes in multilayer networks

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71 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus

Ricard Solé, Giulio Ruffini, Francesca Castaldo +6

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be u…

physics.soc-ph2026

Climate change and human mobility will shape dengue emergence risk in Europe

Charley Presigny, Paolo Baglioni, Pietro Rotondo +3

The risk of local arbovirus outbreaks in Europe is expected to increase due to climate change, as suggested by the multiplication of arbovirus outbreaks in the last decades. Europe…

q-bio.QM2026

muxvizpy: a Python library for the analysis of multilayer biological networks

Matteo Baldan, Francesco Zambelli, Andrea Valsecchi +4

Biological systems are inherently multilayered: the same entities---genes, cells, or bacterial species---participate simultaneously in qualitatively distinct types of interactions,…

physics.soc-ph2026

Scaling laws in complex component systems as consequences of heterogeneous sampling

Luca Allegri, Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico

Complex component systems are collections of discrete units such as species, words, genes, whose observed realizations are naturally summarized by component counts. Many empirical…

physics.soc-ph2026

Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions

Tiago P. Peixoto, Leto Peel, Thilo Gross +1

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in…

cs.SI2025

Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale

Yueting Han, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi +3

Online attention is an increasingly valuable resource in the digital age, with extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic fuelling fierce competition around it. As misinfor…

physics.bio-ph2024

Challenges and opportunities for digital twins in precision medicine: a complex systems perspective

Manlio De Domenico, Luca Allegri, Guido Caldarelli +6

The adoption of digital twins (DTs) in precision medicine is increasingly viable, propelled by extensive data collection and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), alongside…

q-bio.PE2024★ 7 cited

Topological conditions drive stability in meta-ecosystems

Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico

On a global level, ecological communities are being perturbed at an unprecedented rate by human activities and environmental instabilities. Yet, we understand little about what fac…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 1 cited

Effective one-dimension reduction of multi-compartment complex systems dynamics

Giorgio Vittorio Visco, Johannes Nauta, Tomas Scagliarini +2

A broad class of systems, including ecological, epidemiological, and sociological ones, are characterized by populations of individuals assigned to specific categories, e.g., a che…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamics

Maxime Lucas, Luca Gallo, Arsham Ghavasieh +2

Empirical complex systems can be characterized not only by pairwise interactions, but also by higher-order (group) interactions influencing collective phenomena, from metabolic rea…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 37 cited

Multilayer Network Science: from Cells to Societies

Oriol Artime, Barbara Benigni, Giulia Bertagnolli +5

Networks are convenient mathematical models to represent the structure of complex systems, from cells to societies. In the past decade, multilayer network science -- the branch of…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 1 cited

Unraveling the role of adapting risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

Bastian Heinlein, Manlio De Domenico

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the behavioral response to reported case numbers changed drastically over time. While a few dozen cases were enough to trigger government-induced and…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 71 cited

Diversity of information pathways drives scaling and sparsity in real-world networks

Arsham Ghavasieh, Manlio De Domenico

Empirical complex systems must differentially respond to external perturbations and, at the same time, internally distribute information to coordinate their components. While netwo…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 1 cited

Complex information dynamics of epidemic spreading in low-dimensional networks

Wout Merbis, Manlio de Domenico

The statistical field theory of information dynamics on complex networks concerns the dynamical evolution of large classes of models of complex systems. Previous work has focused o…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 6 cited

Emergent information dynamics in many-body interconnected systems

Wout Merbis, Manlio de Domenico

The information implicitly represented in the state of physical systems allows one to analyze them with analytical techniques from statistical mechanics and information theory. In…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 2 cited

Emergence of complex network topologies from flow-weighted optimization of network efficiency

Sebastiano Bontorin, Giulia Cencetti, Riccardo Gallotti +2

Transportation and distribution networks are a class of spatial networks that have been of interest in recent years. These networks are often characterized by the presence of compl…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 20 cited

Generalized network density matrices for analysis of multiscale functional diversity

Arsham Ghavasieh, Manlio De Domenico

The network density matrix formalism allows for describing the dynamics of information on top of complex structures and it has been successfully used to analyze from system's robus…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Ranking Edges by their Impact on the Spectral Complexity of Information Diffusion over Networks

Jeremy Kazimer, Manlio de Domenico, Peter J. Mucha +1

Despite the numerous ways now available to quantify which parts or subsystems of a network are most important, there remains a lack of centrality measures that are related to the c…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 9 cited

Non-Markovian random walks characterize network robustness to nonlocal cascades

Angelo Valente, Manlio De Domenico, Oriol Artime

Localized perturbations in a real-world network have the potential to trigger cascade failures at the whole system level, hindering its operations and functions. Standard approache…

econ.GN2022★ 4 cited

The political economy of big data leaks: Uncovering the skeleton of tax evasion

Pier Luigi Sacco, Alex Arenas, Manlio De Domenico

After the leak of 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian corporation Mossack Fonseca, an intricate network of offshore business entities has been revealed. The emerging picture…

cs.SI2021★ 43 cited

The voice of few, the opinions of many: evidence of social biases in Twitter COVID-19 fake news sharing

Piergiorgio Castioni, Giulia Andrighetto, Riccardo Gallotti +2

Online platforms play a relevant role in the creation and diffusion of false or misleading news. Concerningly, the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping a communication network - barely con…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 55 cited

Mapping flows on hypergraphs

Anton Eriksson, Daniel Edler, Alexis Rojas +1

Hypergraphs offer an explicit formalism to describe multibody interactions in complex systems. To connect dynamics and function in systems with these higher-order interactions, net…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 36 cited

Unraveling the effects of multiscale network entanglement on disintegration of empirical systems

Arsham Ghavasieh, Massimo Stella, Jacob Biamonte +1

Complex systems are large collections of entities that organize themselves into non-trivial structures that can be represented by networks. A key emergent property of such systems…

nlin.CD2020

Compressing phase space detects state changes in nonlinear dynamical systems

Valeria d'Andrea, Manlio De Domenico

Equations governing the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems are usually unknown and indirect methods are used to reconstruct their manifolds. In turn, they depend on embedding pa…