2026 Alessandro Vespignani: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	119	52	49	20	19	352	93712

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to the statistical physics of complex networks, in particular his seminal work on the spreading of viruses in real networks

Overview

Alessandro Vespignani is a researcher affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their primary areas of study encompass medicine and mathematics, with a particular emphasis on modeling and simulation, infectious diseases, and epidemiology. Additional subfields include economics and econometrics as well as health.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, data-driven disease surveillance, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, influenza virus research, viral infections and outbreaks, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Vespignani has contributed to multiple publications in notable venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
arXiv (Cornell University)
UNC Libraries
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators include Matteo Chinazzi, Marco Ajelli, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Cécile Viboud, and Jessica T. Davis.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Vespignani include:

The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, 2020, Science
The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020, Science
Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, 2020, Science
Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases

The researcher holds membership in Academia Europaea since 2011 and was named Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for contributions to the statistical physics of complex networks, specifically regarding virus spreading dynamics in real networks.

Best Publications

Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

7409
Citations
The architecture of complex weighted networks

Alain Barrat;Marc Barthelemy;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

5141
Citations
Epidemic processes in complex networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Claudio Castellano;Piet Van Mieghem;Alessandro Vespignani

3944
Citations
Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks

Alain Barrat;Marc Barthlemy;Alessandro Vespignani

3504
Citations
The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.

Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Chia-Hung Yang;Bernardo Gutierrez;Bernardo Gutierrez;Chieh-Hsi Wu

3230
Citations
The Architecture of Complex Weighted Networks: Measurements and Models

Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani

2948
Citations
Epidemic dynamics and endemic states in complex networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

2242
Citations
Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

2025
Citations
Dynamical and correlation properties of the Internet

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alexei Vázquez;Alessandro Vespignani

1906
Citations
Immunization of complex networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

1670
Citations
Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases

Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza;Bruno Gonçalves;Hao Hu

1604
Citations
ERRATUM: Competition among memes in a world with limited attention

L. Weng;A. Flammini;A. Vespignani;F. Menczer

1580
Citations
The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics

Vittoria Colizza;Alain Barrat;Marc Barthélemy;Alessandro Vespignani

1394
Citations
Science of science

Santo Fortunato;Carl T. Bergstrom;Katy Börner;James A. Evans

1374
Citations
Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

Juanjuan Zhang;Maria Litvinova;Yuxia Liang;Yan Wang

1346
Citations
Epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks

Yamir Moreno;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

1280
Citations
Detecting rich-club ordering in complex networks

V. Colizza;A. Flammini;M. A. Serrano;A. Vespignani

1170
Citations
Economic Networks: The New Challenges

Frank Schweitzer;Giorgio Fagiolo;Didier Sornette;Didier Sornette;Fernando Vega-Redondo;Fernando Vega-Redondo

1092
Citations
Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks

M. Ángeles Serrano;Marián Boguñá;Alessandro Vespignani

1003
Citations
Reaction–diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks

Vittoria Colizza;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

998
Citations
Large-scale topological and dynamical properties of the Internet

Alexei Vázquez;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

918
Citations