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20182026
most citedA framework for epidemic spreading in multiplex networks of metapopulations

125 citations · 358 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Dynastic dynamics: Modelling powerful naming choices with stochastic prestige

Pablo Rosillo-Rodes, Santiago Lamata-Otín, David Soriano-Paños +2

The naming choices of powerful rulers encode millennia of cultural, political, and institutional influences. Consequently, the long-term onomastic dynamics within some of the most…

q-bio.PE2026

Interplay between evolutionary and epidemic time scales challenges the outcome of control policies

Santiago Lamata-Otín, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes +1

The classical SIR model, assuming constant viral traits, represents the cornerstone model for computing key indicators during epidemic outbreaks, such as the expected peak of infec…

q-bio.PE2026

Nonlinear competition avoidance favors coexistence in microbial populations

Mattia Mattei, David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas

Bacteria regulate their motility through a variety of mechanisms, including quorum sensing (QS) and other density-dependent responses mediated by diffusible signals. While nonlinea…

physics.soc-ph2025

Ideological polarization in static networks: A multidimensional approach for opinion alignment

Favio Di Ciocco, Hugo Pérez-Martínez, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes +2

Polarization, defined as the emergence of sharply divided groups with opposing and often extreme views, is an increasingly prominent feature of modern societies. While many studies…

q-bio.PE2025

Structured Interactions Drive Abrupt Transitions in the Spatial Organization of Microbial Communities

Mattia Mattei, David Soriano Paños, Mahantesh Halappanavar +1

Bacteria possess diverse mechanisms to regulate their motility in response to environmental and physiological signals, enabling them to navigate complex habitats and adapt their be…

physics.soc-ph2025

Social polarization promoted by sparse higher-order interactions

Hugo Pérez-Martínez, Santiago Lamata-Otín, Federico Malizia +3

Many social interactions are group-based, yet their role in social polarization remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap here we introduce a higher-order framework that takes…

q-bio.PE2025★ 1 cited

Genotype networks drive oscillating endemicity and epidemic trajectories in viral evolution

Santiago Lamata-Otín, Octavian C. Rotita-Ion, Alex Arenas +2

Rapidly evolving viruses use antigenic drift as a key mechanism to evade host immunity and persist in real populations. While traditional models of antigenic drift and epidemic spr…

physics.soc-ph2025

In itinere infections covertly undermine localized epidemic control in metapopulations

Francesca Dilisante, Pablo Valgañón, David Soriano-Paños +1

Metapopulation models have traditionally assessed epidemic dynamics by emphasizing local in situ interactions within defined subpopulations, often neglecting transmission occurring…

physics.soc-ph2024

Balancing Mobility Behaviors to avoid Global epidemics from Local Outbreaks

Pablo Valgañón, Antonio Brotons, David Soriano-Paños +1

Human interactions and mobility shape epidemic dynamics by facilitating disease outbreaks and their spatial spread across regions. Traditional models often isolate commuting and ra…

q-bio.PE2024★ 1 cited

Eco-evolutionary constraints for the endemicity of rapidly evolving viruses

David Soriano-Paños

Antigenic escape constitutes the main mechanism allowing rapidly evolving viruses to achieve endemicity. Beyond granting immune escape, empirical evidence also suggests that mutati…

physics.soc-ph2024

Human behavior-driven epidemic surveillance in urban landscapes

Pablo Valgañón, Andrés Felipe Useche, Felipe Montes +3

We introduce a surveillance strategy specifically designed for urban areas to enhance preparedness and response to disease outbreaks by leveraging the unique characteristics of hum…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 5 cited

Pathways to explosive transitions in interacting contagion dynamics

Santiago Lamata-Otín, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, David Soriano-Paños

Yet often neglected, dynamical interdependencies between concomitant contagion processes can alter their intrinsic equilibria and bifurcations. A particular case of interest for di…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 2 cited

Quantifying edge relevance for epidemic spreading via the semi-metric topology of complex networks

David Soriano Paños, Felipe Xavier Costa, Luis M. Rocha

Sparsification aims at extracting a reduced core of associations that best preserves both the dynamics and topology of networks while reducing the computational cost of simulations…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 8 cited

Collapse transition in epidemic spreading subject to detection with limited resources

Santiago Lamata-Otín, Adriana Reyna-Lara, David Soriano-Paños +2

Compartmental models are the most widely used framework for modeling infectious diseases. These models have been continuously refined to incorporate all the realistic mechanisms th…

physics.soc-ph2023

Quantifying the heterogeneous impact of lockdown policies on different socioeconomic classes during the first COVID-19 wave in Colombia

Pablo Valgañón, Andrés F. Useche, David Soriano-Paños +2

In the absence of vaccines, the most widespread reaction to curb COVID-19 pandemic worldwide was the implementation of lockdowns or stay-at-home policies. Despite the reported usef…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 7 cited

Polarized opinion states in static networks driven by limited information horizons

Hugo Pérez-Martínez, F. Bauzá Mingueza, David Soriano-Paños +2

The widespread emergence of opinion polarization is often attributed to the rise of social media and the internet, which can promote selective exposure and the formation of echo ch…

physics.soc-ph2022

Contagion-diffusion processes with recurrent mobility patterns of distinguishable agents

Pablo Valgañón, David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas +1

The analysis of contagion-diffusion processes in metapopulations is a powerful theoretical tool to study how mobility influences the spread of communicable diseases. Nevertheless,…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 23 cited

The impact of inter-city mobility on urban welfare

Sayat Mimar, David Soriano-Paños, Alec Kirkley +5

While much effort has been devoted to understand the role of intra-urban characteristics on sustainability and growth, much remains to be understood about the effect of inter-urban…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 12 cited

Inferring Spatial Source of Disease Outbreaks using Maximum Entropy

Mehrad Ansari, David Soriano-Paños, Gourab Ghoshal +1

Mathematical modeling of disease outbreaks can infer the future trajectory of an epidemic, which can inform policy decisions. Another task is inferring the origin of a disease, whi…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 41 cited

Infectious disease dynamics in metapopulations with heterogeneous transmission and recurrent mobility

Wesley Cota, David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas +2

Human mobility, contact patterns, and their interplay are key aspects of our social behavior that shape the spread of infectious diseases across different regions. In the light of…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 31 cited

Virus spread versus contact tracing: two competing contagion processes

Adriana Reyna-Lara, David Soriano-Paños, Sergio Gómez +5

After the blockade that many nations suffered to stop the growth of the incidence curve of COVID-19 during the first half of 2020, they face the challenge of resuming their social…

physics.soc-ph2019

Vector-borne epidemics driven by human mobility

David Soriano-Paños, Judy Heliana Arias-Castro, Hector J. Martínez +2

Vector-borne epidemics are the result of the combination of different factors such as the crossed contagions between humans and vectors, their demographic distribution and human mo…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 37 cited

Impact of temporal scales and recurrent mobility patterns on the unfolding of epidemics

David Soriano-Paños, Gourab Ghoshal, Alex Arenas +1

Human mobility plays a key role on the transformation of local disease outbreaks into global pandemics. Thus, the inclusion of human movements into epidemic models has become manda…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 29 cited

Markovian approach to tackle the interaction of simultaneous diseases

David Soriano-Paños, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sandro Meloni +1

The simultaneous emergence of several abrupt disease outbreaks or the extinction of some serotypes of multi-strain diseases are fingerprints of the interaction between pathogens sp…