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physics.soc-ph2026

Energy pathway variety and the progress of the energy transition in European countries

Noam Abadi, Rossana Mastrandrea, Franco Ruzzenenti +1

The integration of new energy forms into existing energy infrastructure has emerged as a critical challenge in the context of the pursuit of a sustainable energy transition. One of…

physics.soc-ph2026

Beyond Direct Retweets: Multi-Step Pathways in Italian COVID-19 Twitter

Edoardo Maggioni, Ren Manfredi, Fabio Saracco +1

We study how retweet interactions in large-scale Twitter debates are organized beyond direct links alone. Focusing on Twitter debate in Italy during the first phase of the COVID-19…

physics.soc-ph2025

Leveraging Knowledge Networks: Rethinking Technological Value Distribution in mRNA Vaccine Innovations

Rossana Mastrandrea, Fabio Montobbio, Gabriele Pellegrino +2

This study examines the roles of public and private sector actors in the development of mRNA vaccines, a breakthrough innovation in modern medicine. Using a dataset of 151 core pat…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 6 cited

Tracing two decades of carbon emissions using a network approach

Gianluca Guidi, Rossana Mastrandrea, Angelo Facchini +2

Carbon emissions are currently attributed to producers although a consumption-aware accounting is advocated. After constructing the Carbon Trade Network, we trace the flow of emiss…

physics.soc-ph2023

Coalitions in International Litigation: A Network Perspective

R. Mastrandrea, G. Antuofermo, M. Ovadek +3

We apply network science principles to analyze the coalitions formed by European Union (EU) nations and institutions during litigation proceedings at the European Court of Justice.…

physics.soc-ph2023

Coevolution of cognition and cooperation in structured populations under reinforcement learning

Rossana Mastrandrea, Leonardo Boncinelli, Ennio Bilancini

We study the evolution of behavior under reinforcement learning in a Prisoner's Dilemma where agents interact in a regular network and can learn about whether they play one-shot or…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 34 cited

Reconstructing networks

Giulio Cimini, Rossana Mastrandrea, Tiziano Squartini

Complex networks datasets often come with the problem of missing information: interactions data that have not been measured or discovered, may be affected by errors, or are simply…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Weighted network motifs as random walk patterns

Francesco Picciolo, Franco Ruzzenenti, Petter Holme +1

Over the last two decades, network theory has shown to be a fruitful paradigm in understanding the organization and functioning of real-world complex systems. One technique helpful…

physics.soc-ph2019

Maximum entropy approaches for the study of triadic motifs in the Mergers & Acquisitions network

Ihusan Adam, Stefano Garlaschi, Jian-Hong Lin +4

In the past years statistical physics has been successfully applied for complex networks modelling. In particular, it has been shown that the maximum entropy principle can be explo…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 22 cited

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the International Merger and Acquisition Network

Marco Dueñas, Rossana Mastrandrea, Matteo Barigozzi +1

This paper analyses the world web of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) using a complex network approach. We use data of M&As to build a temporal sequence of binary and weighted-direc…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 22 cited

How to estimate epidemic risk from incomplete contact diaries data?

Rossana Mastrandrea, Alain Barrat

Social interactions shape the patterns of spreading processes in a population. Techniques such as diaries or proximity sensors allow to collect data about encounters and to build n…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 25 cited

Enhancing the evaluation of pathogen transmission risk in a hospital by merging hand-hygiene compliance and contact data: a proof-of-concept study

Rossana Mastrandrea, Alberto Soto-Aladro, Philippe Brouqui +1

Hand-hygiene compliance and contacts of health-care workers largely determine the potential paths of pathogen transmission in hospital wards. We explored how the combination of dat…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 624 cited

Contact patterns in a high school: a comparison between data collected using wearable sensors, contact diaries and friendship surveys

Rossana Mastrandrea, Julie Fournet, Alain Barrat

Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or diseases propagate in a population, human interactions are the subject of many data collection…