2026 Albert-László Barabási: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	171	815	746	490	438	543	301079
Computer Science	143	48	45	27	25	331	280341

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2007 - Member of Academia Europaea
2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his discovery of scalefree networks and for his theories of surface roughening and strained surfaces
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Albert-László Barabási is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Nutritional Studies and Diet
Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Recent publications by Albert-László Barabási include:

"Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19," 2021, PubMed Central
"Genomics and phenomics of body mass index reveals a complex disease network," 2022, Nature Communications
"Quantifying NFT-driven networks in crypto art," 2022, Scientific Reports
"Improving the generalizability of protein-ligand binding predictions with AI-Bind," 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

Dashun Wang
Giulia Menichetti
Joseph Loscalzo
Deisy Morselli Gysi
Alexander J. Gates

Albert-László Barabási has contributed extensively to publication venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific Reports

In addition to numerous articles, Barabási has a book titled The Science of Science, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

The scientist has received several awards, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Member of Academia Europaea, 2007
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2003, for work on scalefree networks and theories of surface roughening and strained surfaces
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Best Publications

Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

Albert László Barabási;Réka Albert

47495
Citations
Statistical mechanics of complex networks

Reka Zsuzsanna Albert;Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

28232
Citations
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks

Reka Albert;Hawoong Jeong;Albert László Barabási

11626
Citations
Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization

Albert László Barabási;Zoltán N. Oltvai

9940
Citations
Understanding individual human mobility patterns

Marta C. González;A R Cesar Hidalgo;A R Cesar Hidalgo;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási

9480
Citations
Linked: The New Science of Networks

Albert-László Barabási

8796
Citations
The large-scale organization of metabolic networks

Hawoong Jeong;B Tombor;R Albert;ZN Oltvai

6830
Citations
Lethality and centrality in protein networks

Hawoong Jeong;SP Mason;AL Barabasi;ZN Oltvai

6751
Citations
Diameter of the World-Wide Web

Réka Albert;Hawoong Jeong;Albert László Barabási

6724
Citations
Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth

Albert-Laszló Barabási;Harry Eugene Stanley

5949
Citations
Network Medicine: A Network-Based Approach to Human Disease

Albert-László Barabási;Natali Gulbahce;Natali Gulbahce;Natali Gulbahce;Joseph Loscalzo

5439
Citations
Hierarchical Organization of Modularity in Metabolic Networks

E. Ravasz;A. L. Somera;D. A. Mongru;Z. N. Oltvai

5164
Citations
Computational Social Science

David M. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Lada Adamic;Sinan Aral;Sinan Aral

4586
Citations
The structure and dynamics of networks

Mark E J Newman;Albert László Barabási;Duncan J. Watts;Duncan J. Watts

4281
Citations
The diameter of the world wide web

Réka Albert;Hawoong Jeong;Albert-László Barabási

4123
Citations
Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility

Chaoming Song;Zehui Qu;Zehui Qu;Nicholas Blumm;Nicholas Blumm;Albert László Barabási;Albert László Barabási

4028
Citations
Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations

AL Barabasi;Hawoong Jeong;Z Neda;Z Neda;E Ravasz

3935
Citations
The human disease network

Kwang Il Goh;Michael E. Cusick;David Valle;Barton Childs

3906
Citations
Scale-Free Networks.

Albert-László Barabási;Eric Bonabeau

3740
Citations
Controllability of complex networks

Yang-Yu Liu;Jean-Jacques Slotine;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási

3713
Citations
Mean-field theory for scale-free random networks

Albert László Barabási;Réka Albert;Hawoong Jeong

3574
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamás Vicsek Eötvös Loránd University

Marc Vidal Harvard University

Hawoong Jeong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Réka Albert Pennsylvania State University

Joseph Loscalzo Harvard Medical School

Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University

János Kertész Central European University

David E. Hill Harvard University

Frederick P. Roth Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University

External Links

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