Publications

Here's my Google Scholar profile. Certainly more up to date and comprehensive.

Below you can find my publications roughly categorised as 

Many paper could fall into more than one box, and especially the Network one could contain most of them. But hey, categorisation is always hard*.

*See corresponding category to find out why.

Social Networks

Polarization, Online Mobilization, Contact Networks, etc.


Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time

M. Avalle, N. Di Marco, G. Etta, E. Sangiorgio, S. Alipour, A. Bonetti, L. Alvisi, A. Scala, A. Baronchelli, M. Cinelli and W. Quattrociocchi

Nature 628 (8008), 582-589 (2024)


The systemic impact of deplatforming on social media

A. Mekacher, M. Falkenberg and A. Baronchelli

PNAS nexus 2 (11), pgad346 (2023)


Analyzing the changing landscape of the Covid-19 vaccine debate on Twitter

A. Santoro, A. Galeazzi, T. Scantamburlo, A. Baronchelli, W. Quattrociocchi and F. Zollo

Social Network Analysis and Mining 13 (1), 115 (2023) 

 

Growing polarisation around climate change on social media

M. Falkenberg, A. Galeazzi, M. Torricelli, N. Di Marco, F. Larosa, M. Sas, A. Mekacher, W. Pearce, F. Zollo, W. Quattrociocchi and A. Baronchelli 

Nature Climate Change, 12:1114 (2022)

 

From Reddit to Wall Street: the role of committed minorities in financial collective action

L. Lucchini, L. M. Aiello, L. Alessandretti, G. De Francisci Morales, M. Starnini and A. Baronchelli

Royal Society Open Science 9 (4), 211488 (2022)

 

Infodemics: A new challenge for public health

S. C. Briand, M. Cinelli, T. Nguyen, R. Lewis, D. Prybylski, C. M. Valensise, V. Colizza, A.E. Tozzi, N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, M. Tizzoni, F. Zollo, A. Scala, T. Purnat, C. Czerniak, A. J. Kucharski, A. Tshangela, L. Zhou, W. Quattrociocchi

Cell 184 (25), 6010-6014 (2021)

 

Wikipedia and digital currencies: Interplay between collective attention and market performance

A. ElBahrawy, L. Alessandretti, and A. Baronchelli

Frontiers in Blockchain 2:12 (2019)

 

The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign  

M. Bastos, D. Mercea and A. Baronchelli  

PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206841 (2018)

 

Robust modeling of human contact networks across different scales and proximity-sensing techniques

M. Starnini, B, Lepri, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat, Ciro Cattuto and R. Pastor-Satorras

International Conference on Social Informatics. SocInfo 2017, 536-551 (2017) 


Effects of temporal correlations in social multiplex networks  

M. Starnini, A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Scientific Reports 7: 8597 (2017)

 

Emergence of metapopulations and echo chambers in mobile agents

M. Starnini, M. Frasca and A. Baronchelli 

Scientific Reports 6, 31834 (2016)

 

Model reproduces individual, group and collective dynamics of human contact networks  

M. Starnini, A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Social Networks 47, 130 (2016)

 

Modeling human dynamics of face-to-face interaction networks

M. Starnini, A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 168701 (2013)

 

Connect and win: The role of social networks in political elections

A. Halu, K. Zhao, A. Baronchelli and G. Bianconi

Europhys. Lett. 102, 16002 (2013)

 

#Bigbirds never die: Understanding social dynamics of emergent hashtag

Y.-R. Lin, D. Margolin, B. Keegan, A. Baronchelli and D. Lazer

Proceedings of the 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013). Preprint version here arXiv:1303.7144

 

The Twitter of Babel: mapping world languages through microblogging platforms

D. Mocanu, A. Baronchelli, N. Perra, B. Goncalves and A. Vespignani

PLoS ONE 8(4): e61981(2013)

 

Beating the news using Social Media: the case study of American Idol

F. Ciulla, D. Mocanu, A. Baronchelli, B. Goncalves, N. Perra and A. Vespignani

EPJ Data Science 2012, 1:8 (2012)                                                                                          

 

 

 

Blockchain Ecosystems

Cryptocurrencies, Dark Markets, NFTs, etc.

 

Identifying key players in dark web marketplaces through Bitcoin transaction networks

E. F. Dos Reis, A. Teytelboym, A. ElBahrawy, I. De Loizaga and A. Baronchelli

Sci. Rep. 14 (1), 2385 (2024)


Vaccines and more: the response of Dark Web marketplaces to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 

A. Bracci, M. Nadini, M. Aliapoulios, D. McCoy, I. Gray, A. Teytelboym, A. Gallo and A. Baronchelli

PLoS ONE 17 (11), e0275288 (2022)

 

Central bank digital currencies risk becoming a digital Leviathan

H. Halaburda, A. Teytelboym and A. Baronchelli

Nature Human Behaviour 6 (7), 907-909 (2022)

 

Macroscopic properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces

A. Bracci, J. Bohenke, A. ElBahrawy, N. Perra, A. Teytelboym and A. Baronchelli

PNAS Nexus 1(4), pgac201 (2022)

 

Heterogeneous rarity patterns drive price dynamics in NFT collections

A. Mekacher, A. Bracci, M. Nadini, M. Martino, L. Alessandretti, L.M. Aiello and A. Baronchelli

Sci. Rep. 12: 13890 (2022)

 

Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces

M. Nadini, A. Bracci, A. ElBahrawy, P. Gradwell, A. Teytelboym and A. Baronchelli

Sci. Rep. 12:5425 (2022)

 

Mapping the NFT revolution: market trends, trade networks, and visual features

M. Nadini, L. Alessandretti, F. Di Giacinto,  M. Martino, L. Aiello and A. Baronchelli

Scientific Report  11:20902 (2021)

 

Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine

A. Bracci, M. Nadini, M. Aliapoulios, D. McCoy, I. Gray, A. Teytelboym, A. Gallo and A. Baronchelli

EPJ Data Science 10 (1), 6 (2021)

 

PRINCIPIA: a Decentralized Peer-Review Ecosystem

A. Mambrini, A. Baronchelli, M. Starnini, D. Marinazzo and M. De Domenico

arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09011 (2020)

 

From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies

L. Lucchini, L. Alessandretti, B. Lepri, A. Gallo and A. Baronchelli

Science Advances 6,51 eabd2204 (2020)

 

Collective Dynamics of Dark Web Marketplaces

A. ElBahrawy, L. Alessandretti, L. Rusnac, D. Goldsmith, A. Teytelboym and A. Baronchelli

Scientific reports 10 (1), 1-8 (2020)

 

Wikipedia and digital currencies: Interplay between collective attention and market performance

A. ElBahrawy, L. Alessandretti, and A. Baronchelli

Frontiers in Blockchain 2:12 (2019)

 

The fragility of decentralised trustless socio-technical systems

M. De Domenico and A. Baronchelli

EPJ Data Science 8:2 (2019)

 

Anticipating Cryptocurrency Prices Using Machine Learning

L. Alessandretti, A. ElBahrawy, L. M. Aiello and A. Baronchelli

Complexity 8983590 (2018)

 

Evolutionary dynamics of the cryptocurrency market

A. ElBahrawy, L. Alessandretti, A. Kandler, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Baronchelli

Royal Society Open Science 4, 170623 (2017)

 

 

 

Coordination, Norms & Categories

Naming Game, Category Game, etc.

 

Shaping new norms for AI

A. Baronchelli

Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. B 379 (1897), 20230028 (2024)


The Role of Interface Design on Prompt-mediated Creativity in Generative AI

M. Torricelli, M. Martino, A. Baronchelli and L. M. Aiello

WEBSCI '24: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 235-240 (2024)


Group interactions modulate critical mass dynamics in social convention

I. Iacopini, G. Petri, A. Baronchelli and A. Barrat

Communications Physics 5 (1), 1-10 (2022)

 

Ethnic markers and the emergence of group-specific norms: an experiment

J. Ozaita, A. Baronchelli and A. Sánchez

Sci. Rep.12: 5068 (2022)

 

Experimental evidence for scale-induced category convergence across populations

D. Guilbeault, A. Baronchelli and D. Centola 

Nature Communications 12, 327 (2021)

 

Ethnic markers and the emergence of group-specific norms

J. Ozaita, A. Baronchelli and A. Sánchez

Scientific Reports 10 (1), 1-1 (2020)

 

The dynamics of norm change in the cultural evolution of language

R. Amato, L. Lacasa, A. Díaz-Guilera and A. Baronchelli

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115, 8260 (2018)

 

Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention

D. Centola, J. Becker, D. Brackbill and A. Baronchelli

Science 360, 1116 (2018)

 

The emergence of consensus: A primer  

A. Baronchelli

Royal Society Open Science 4, 172189 (2018)

 

A gentle introduction to the minimal Naming Game

A. Baronchelli 

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30, 171 (2016)

 

Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: from Abstract Models to Empirical Validation  

V. Trianni, D. De Simone, A. Reina and A. Baronchelli. 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 1: 348 (2016)

 

Committed activists and the reshaping of status-quo social consensus  

D. Mistry, Q.Zhang, N. Perra and A. Baronchelli 

Phys. Rev. E. 92, 042805 (2015)

 

The spontaneous emergence of conventions: An experimental study of cultural evolution 

D. Centola and A. Baronchelli 

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112, 1989 (2015

 

Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems

A. Baronchelli, V. Loreto and A. Puglisi 

PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125019 (2015)

 

Modeling is a tool, and data are crucial

A. Baronchelli

Physics of Life Review 11, 317 (2014)

 

Cultural evolution of language

D. Dediu, M. Cysouw, S.C. Levinson, A. Baronchelli, M.H. Christiansen, W. Croft, N. Evans, S. Garrod, R. Gray, A. Kandler and E. Lieven

In P.J. Richerson & M.H. Christiansen (Eds.), Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language and religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (2013)

 

The biological origin of linguistic diversity 

A. Baronchelli, N. Chater, R. Pastor-Satorras and M.H. Christiansen

PLoS ONE, 7(10): e48029 (2012)                                                                                     

 

Consensus in networks of mobile communicating agents 

A. Baronchelli and Albert Díaz-Guilera                                                                                   

Phys. Rev. E 85, 016113 (2012)

 

Language Dynamics

A. Baronchelli, V. Loreto and F. Tria

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 15, 1203002 (2012)

 

Exploring the roles of complex networks in linguistic categorization                              

T. Gong, A. Baronchelli, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto                                                                    

Artificial Life 18(1): 107 (2012)

 

Edited volume: Advances in Complex Systems - Language Dynamics 

A. Baronchelli, V. Loreto and F. Tria

Advances in Complex Systems Volume: 15, Number: 03n04 (May 2012)

 

The minimal Naming Game: a complex systems approach

A. Baronchelli 

book chapter, ed. Luc Steels. (due out, 2012). preprint pdf here. 2011 

 

The maturity of modeling

A. Baronchelli  

Physics of Life Reviews 8, 377 (2011)

 

A fast no-rejection algorithm for the Category Game

F. Tria, A. Mukherjee, A. Baronchelli, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto 

Journal of Computational Science 2, 316 (2011) 

 

Role of feedback and broadcasting in the naming game 

A. Baronchelli 

Phys. Rev. E 83, 046103 (2011)                                                                                                      

 

Statistical physics of language dynamics  

V. Loreto, A. Baronchelli, A. Mukherjee, A. Puglisi, F. Tria

J. Stat. Mech. P04006 (2011)

 

Aging in language dynamics 

A. Mukherjee, F. Tria, A. Baronchelli, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto 

PLoS ONE 6(2): e16677 (2011)

 

Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns

A. Baronchelli, T. Gong, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 2403 (2010)  Supporting Information                                                  

*Featured in Physics Today (and its blog) and Spektrumdirect (in German)

 

On the origin of universal categorization patterns: an in-silica experiment 

A. Baronchelli, T. Gong, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto                                                                       

extended abstract in "The Evolution of Language" (proceedings of the 8th International Conference - EVOLANG 8), eds. A. D M Smith, M. Shouwstra, B. de Boer and K. Smith, World Scientific Publishing Company (2010).

 

Consensus and ordering in language dynamics

X. Castelló, A. Baronchelli and V. Loreto

Eur. Phys. J. B 71, 557 (2009)

 

What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax?

H. Jäger, L. Steels, A. Baronchelli, E. Briscoe, M. H. Christiansen, T. Griffiths, G. Jäger, S. Kirby, N. Komarova, P. J. Richerson and J. Triesch.

book chapter in "Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax", eds. D. Bickerton and E. Szathmáry. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009, pp. 385--410.pdf here.

 

Mathematical modeling of language games

V. Loreto, A. Baronchelli and A. Puglisi

book chapter in: "Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents", eds. S. Nolfi and M. Mirolli. Springer, 2009, pp. 263--283.

 

Complex systems approach to the emergence of language

A. Baronchelli, C. Cattuto, V. Loreto and A. Puglisi

book chapter in:  "Language, Evolution, and the Brain", eds. J. W. Minett amd E. S-Y. Wang. Hong Kong : City University of Hong Kong Press. 2009, pp. 141--178.

 

Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories

A. Puglisi, A. Baronchelli and V. Loreto

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 7936 (2008) Supporting Information  

 

In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case

A. Baronchelli, V. Loreto and L. Steels

Int. J. of Mod. Phys. C 19, 785 (2008) 

 

Complex systems approach to natural categorization

A. Baronchelli, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto

extended abstract in "The Evolution of Language" (proceedings of the 7th International Conference - EVOLANG 8), eds. A. D M Smith, K. Smith, and R. Ferrer i Cancho World Scientific Publishing Company (2010)

 

Non-equilibrium phase transition in negotiation dynamics

A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

Phys. Rev. E 76, 051102 (2007)

*Selected by the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

 

Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies

A. Barrat, A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta and V. Loreto

Chaos 17, 026111 (2007)

 

The role of topology on the dynamics of the Naming Game

A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 143, 233 (2007)

 

Statistical mechanics approach to language games

A. Baronchelli

PhD Thesis (defended January 2007)

 

Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks

L. Dall'Asta, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

Phys. Rev. E 74, 036105 (2006)

 

Microscopic activity patterns in the Naming Game

L. Dall'Asta and A.Baronchelli

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 14851-14867 (2006) 

 

Agreement dynamics on small-world networks

L. Dall'Asta, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

Europhys. Lett. 73, 969 (2006) 

 

Topology induced coarsening in language games language

A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

Phys. Rev. E 73, 015102(R) (2006)

 

Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems

A. Baronchelli, M. Felici, V. Loreto, E. Caglioti and L. Steels

J. Stat. Mech. P06014 (2006)

*Featured on New Scientist 16 Oct 2005 - "How new words become part of a language".

Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamic

A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

in Artificial Life X, edited by L. M. Rocha et al., pages 480--485, MIT press (2006) preprint

 

Bootstrapping communication in language games

A. Baronchelli, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and V. Loreto

in The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), edited by A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith & K. Smith, World Scientific Publishing Company (2006)

 

Complex systems approach to language games

A. Baronchelli, E. Caglioti, V. Loreto and L. Steels

Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS'06, Oxford (UK), (2006)

 

Measuring complexity with zippers

A. Baronchelli, E. Caglioti and V. Loreto

Eur. J. Phys. 26, S69-S77 (2005)

 

Artificial sequences and complexity measures

A. Baronchelli, E. Caglioti and V. Loreto

J. Stat. Mech. P04002 (2005)

 

Self-organizing communication in language games

A. Baronchelli, M. Felici, E. Caglioti, V. Loreto and L. Steels

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS'05, Paris (France), November 2005.

 

Dictionary based methods for information extraction

A. Baronchelli, E. Caglioti, V. Loreto and E. Pizzi

Physica A 342, 294-300 (2004) 

 

Complessita' e informazione in sequenze di simboli. Alcune applicazioni in linguistica e genomica.

A. Baronchelli

Graduation thesis (in Italian) html

 

 

 

Human Mobility

 

On the Relation Between Transversal and Longitudinal Scaling in Cities

F.L. Ribeiro, J. Meirelles, V.M. Netto, C.R. Neto and A.Baronchelli

PloS one 15 (5), e0233003 (2020)

 

Understanding the interplay between social and spatial behaviour  

L. Alessandretti, S. Lehmann and A. Baronchelli

EPJ Data Science 7: 36 (2018)

 

Evidence for a conserved quantity in human mobility  

L. Alessandretti, P. Sapiezynski, V. Sekara, S. Lehmann and A. Baronchelli  

Nature Human Behaviour 2, 485 (2018).

 

Multi-scale spatio-temporal analysis of human mobility  

L. Alessandretti, P. Sapiezynski, S. Lehmann and A. Baronchelli  

PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171686 (2016)

 

 

 

Cognitive Science

 

New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

D.U. Wulff, S. De Deyne, M.N. Jones, R. Mata et al.

Trends Cog. Sci. 23:8, 686 (2019)

 

Networks in Cognitive Science

A. Baronchelli, R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. Pastor-Satorras, N. Chater, and M.H. Christiansen

Trends in Cognitive Science 17(7), 348-360 (2013)

 

Lévy flights in human behavior and cognition

A. Baronchelli and F. Radicchi

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 56, 101 (2013)

 

Evolution of optimal Lévy-flight strategies in human mental searches 

F. Radicchi and A. Baronchelli

Phys. Rev. E 85, 061121 (2012)

 

Rationality, irrationality and escalating behavior in online auctions                               

F. Radicchi, A. Baronchelli and L.A.N. Amaral                                                                              

PLoS ONE 7(1): e29910 (2012)                                                                                           

 

 

 

Fundamental Network Science

Random walks, ordering dynamics, temporal networks, etc.

(For Naming Games on networks, see section on Norms; For contact nets, see section on social networks)

 

Self-initiated behavioural change and disease resurgence on activity-driven networks

N. Gozzi, M. Scudeler, D. Paolotti, A. Baronchelli and N. Perra

Phys. Rev. E 104 (1), 014307 (2021)

 

Random walks on activity-driven networks with attractiveness  

L. Alessandretti, K. Sun, A. Baronchelli and N. Perra

Phys. Rev. E. 95, 052318 (2017)

 

Scale-free networks emerging from multifractal time series  

M. A. Budroni, A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Phys. Rev. E. 95 052311 (2017)

 

Epidemic spreading in non-Markovian time-varying networks

K. Sun, A. Baronchelli and N. Perra

Eur. Phys. J. B 88: 326 (2015)

 

Damage detection via shortest path network sampling

F. Ciulla, N. Perra, A. Baronchelli and A. Vespignani

Phys. Rev. E 89, 052816 (2014)

 

Quantifying the effect of temporal resolution on time-varying networks

B. Ribeiro N. Perra and A. Baronchelli

Scientific Reports 3: 3006 (2013)

 

Contagion dynamics in time-varying metapopulation networks

S.Liu, A. Baronchelli and N.Perra

Phys. Rev. E 87, 032805 (2013)

 

Evolution in a changing environment

A. Baronchelli, N. Chater, M.H. Christiansen and R. Pastor-Satorras 

PLoS ONE, 8(1): e52742 (2013)

 

Ordering dynamics of the multi-state voter model 

M. Starnini, A. Baronchelli, and R. Pastor-Satorras 

J. Stat. Mech. P10027 (2012) 

 

Random Walks and Search in Time-Varying Networks

N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, D. Mocanu, B. Goncalves, R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238701 (2012) 

 

Random walks on temporal networks

M. Starnini, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Phys. Rev. E 85, 056115 (2012)

 

Unified mean-field approach to voter-like models on networks                                      

P. Moretti, S Liu, A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 88 (2012)

 

Generalized voter-like models on heterogeneous networks

P. Moretti, A. Baronchelli, M. Starnini and R. Pastor-Satorras                                                     

book chapter for "Dynamics on and of Complex Networks: Time-Varying Dynamical Networks", eds. N. Ganguly et al. Birkhauser, Springer, Boston (due out 2012) Preprint arXiv:1206.3037

 

Voter models on weighted networks 

A. Baronchelli, C. Castellano and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Phys. Rev. E. 83, 066117 (2011)

 

Complex networks and glassy dynamics: walks in the energy landscape

P. Moretti, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat and R. Pastor-Satorras 

J. Stat. Mech. P03032 (2011)  

 

Mean-field diffusive dynamics on weighted networks 

A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras 

Phys. Rev. E 82 011111 (2010)

 

Glass transition and random walks on complex energy landscapes 

A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat and R. Pastor-Satorras

Phys. Rev. E 80, 020102(R) (2009)

 

Effects of mobility on ordering dynamics

A. Baronchelli and R. Pastor-Satorras

J. Stat. Mech. L11001 (2009)

 

Bosonic reaction-diffusion processes on complex networks

A. Baronchelli, M. Catanzaro and R. Pastor-Satorras

Phys. Rev. E 78, 016111 (2008)                                                                                                  

 

Random walks on complex trees

A. Baronchelli, M. Catanzaro and R. Pastor-Satorras

Phys. Rev. E 78, 011114 (2008) 

 

Ring structures and mean first passage time in networks

A. Baronchelli and V. Loreto

Phys. Rev. E. 73, 026103 (2006)

 

 

 

Machine Learning meets Number Theory: The Data Science of Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer

L. Alessandretti, A. Baronchelli and Y.-H. Hui

arXiv:1911.02008 (2019)

 


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