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physics.soc-ph2026

The geopolitics of knowledge: tipping points, national fingerprints, and the unequal globalization of science

Irina Vorobeva, Maxime Lenormand, Germana Berlantini +1

Science is often portrayed as a universal and self-contained system, driven solely by the internal logic of knowledge accumulation and isolated from the turbulences of the socio-po…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 2 cited

Intersectional approach of everyday geography

Julie Vallée, Maxime Lenormand

Hour-by-hour variations in spatial distribution of gender, age and social class within cities remain poorly explored and combined in the segregation literature mainly centered on h…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 9 cited

Uncovering the socioeconomic structure of spatial and social interactions in cities

Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego

The relationship between urban mobility, social networks and socioeconomic status is complex and difficult to apprehend, notably due to the lack of data. Here we use mobile phone d…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 4 cited

On the importance of trip destination for modeling individual human mobility patterns

Maxime Lenormand, Juan Murillo Arias, Maxi San Miguel +1

Getting insights on human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 23 cited

Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area

Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego, Julio C. Chaves +3

Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task that has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geoloc…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 98 cited

Field theory for recurrent mobility

Mattia Mazzoli, Alex Molas, Aleix Bassolas +3

Understanding human mobility is crucial for applications such as forecasting epidemic spreading, planning transport infrastructure and urbanism in general. While, traditionally, mo…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 21 cited

Scaling in the recovery of urban transportation systems from special events

Aleix Bassolas, Riccardo Gallotti, Fabio Lamanna +2

Public transportation is a fundamental infrastructure for the daily mobility in cities. Although its capacity is prepared for the usual demand, congestion may rise when huge crowds…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 38 cited

Multiscale socio-ecological networks in the age of information

Maxime Lenormand, Sandra Luque, Johannes Langemeyer +17

Interactions between people and ecological systems, through leisure or tourism activities, form a complex socio-ecological spatial network. The analysis of the benefits people deri…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 1.1k cited

Human Mobility: Models and Applications

Hugo Barbosa-Filho, Marc Barthelemy, Gourab Ghoshal +7

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 71 cited

Immigrant community integration in world cities

Fabio Lamanna, Maxime Lenormand, María Henar Salas-Olmedo +3

As a consequence of the accelerated globalization process, today major cities all over the world are characterized by an increasing multiculturalism. The integration of immigrant c…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 2 cited

Is spatial information in ICT data reliable?

Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, Marc Barthelemy +1

An increasing number of human activities are studied using data produced by individuals' ICT devices. In particular, when ICT data contain spatial information, they represent an in…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 24 cited

Crowdsourcing the Robin Hood effect in cities

Thomas Louail, Maxime Lenormand, Juan Murillo Arias +1

Socioeconomic inequalities in cities are embedded in space and result in neighborhood effects, whose harmful consequences have proved very hard to counterbalance efficiently by pla…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 49 cited

Touristic site attractiveness seen through Twitter

Aleix Bassolas, Maxime Lenormand, Antònia Tugores +2

Tourism is becoming a significant contributor to medium and long range travels in an increasingly globalized world. Leisure traveling has an important impact on the local and globa…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 210 cited

Systematic comparison of trip distribution laws and models

Maxime Lenormand, Aleix Bassolas, José J. Ramasco

Trip distribution laws are basic for the travel demand characterization needed in transport and urban planning. Several approaches have been considered in the last years. One of th…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 95 cited

Comparing and modeling land use organization in cities

Maxime Lenormand, Miguel Picornell, Oliva G. Cantú-Ros +6

The advent of geolocated ICT technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, espec…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 204 cited

Uncovering the spatial structure of mobility networks

Thomas Louail, Maxime Lenormand, Miguel Picornell +5

The extraction of a clear and simple footprint of the structure of large, weighted and directed networks is a general problem that has many applications. An important example is gi…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 51 cited

Human diffusion and city influence

Maxime Lenormand, Bruno Gonçalves, Antònia Tugores +1

Cities are characterized by concentrating population, economic activity and services. However, not all cities are equal and a natural hierarchy at local, regional or global scales…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 74 cited

Influence of sociodemographic characteristics on human mobility

Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, Oliva G. Cantu-Ros +6

Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable d…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 46 cited

Tweets on the road

Maxime Lenormand, Antònia Tugores, Pere Colet +1

The pervasiveness of mobile devices, which is increasing daily, is generating a vast amount of geo-located data allowing us to gain further insights into human behaviors. In partic…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 149 cited

Cross-checking different sources of mobility information

Maxime Lenormand, Miguel Picornell, Oliva G. Cantu-Ros +6

The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, d…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 460 cited

From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities

Thomas Louail, Maxime Lenormand, Oliva García Cantú +5

Pervasive infrastructures, such as cell phone networks, enable to capture large amounts of human behavioral data but also provide information about the structure of cities and thei…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 31 cited

A commuting network model: going to the bulk

Floriana Gargiulo, Maxime Lenormand, Sylvie Huet +1

The influence of commuting in socio-economic dynamics increases constantly. Analysing and modelling the networks formed by commuters to help decision-making regarding the land-use…