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2026

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84
Citations
45841
World Ranking
396
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Alex Arenas is affiliated with Rovira i Virgili University in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on modeling and simulation, statistical and nonlinear physics, computer networks and communications, economics and econometrics, and epidemiology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of COVID-19 epidemiological patterns, complex network analysis techniques, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, human mobility and location-based analysis, mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models, data-driven disease surveillance, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Alex Arenas include:

  • "Modeling the Spatiotemporal Epidemic Spreading of COVID-19 and the Impact of Mobility and Social Distancing Interventions" (2020), published in Physical Review X
  • "A mathematical model for the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID19" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Abrupt phase transition of epidemic spreading in simplicial complexes" (2020), published in Physical Review Research
  • "A population-based controlled experiment assessing the epidemiological impact of digital contact tracing" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "The need for an independent evaluation of the COVID-19 response in Spain" (2020), published in The Lancet

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alex Arenas are:

  • Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes (25 coauthored publications)
  • Sergio Gómez (23)
  • David Soriano-Paños (19)
  • Clara Granell (16)
  • Benjamin Steinegger (13)

Publication venues where Alex Arenas has frequently contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 21 publications
  • Physical Review Research with 6 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 5 publications
  • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science with 5 publications
  • UNC Libraries with 5 publications

The main topics covered by Alex Arenas's research consist of:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies (66 publications)
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques (40)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (28)
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (24)
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (20)
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (18)
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (18)

In recognition of professional contributions, Alex Arenas was awarded the ACM Senior Member status in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Synchronization in complex networks

    Alex Arenas;Alex Arenas;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Jurgen Kurths;Jurgen Kurths;Yamir Moreno

  • Comparing community structure identification

    Leon Danon;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Jordi Duch;Alex Arenas

  • Multilayer Networks

    Mikko Kivelä;Alexandre Arenas;Marc Barthelemy;James P. Gleeson

  • Community detection in complex networks using extremal optimization.

    Jordi Duch;Alex Arenas

  • Comparing community structure identification

    Leon Danon;Jordi Duch;Albert Diaz-Guilera;Alex Arenas

  • Self-similar community structure in a network of human interactions

    R. Guimerà;Leon Danon;A. Díaz-Guilera;F. Giralt

  • Mathematical Formulation of Multilayer Networks

    Manlio De Domenico;Albert Solé-Ribalta;Emanuele Cozzo;Mikko Kivelä

  • Diffusion dynamics on multiplex networks.

    Sergio Gomez;Albert Diaz-Guilera;Albert Diaz-Guilera;Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes;Conrad J. Perez-Vicente

  • Dynamical Interplay between Awareness and Epidemic Spreading in Multiplex Networks

    Clara Granell;Sergio Gómez;Alex Arenas

  • Synchronization reveals topological scales in complex networks.

    Alex Arenas;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Conrad J. Pérez-Vicente

  • Models of social networks based on social distance attachment

    Marián Boguñá;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Alex Arenas

  • Mathematical Formulation of Multi-Layer Networks

    Manlio De Domenico;Albert Solè-Ribalta;Emanuele Cozzo;Mikko Kivelä

  • Analysis of the structure of complex networks at different resolution levels

    Alex Arenas;Alex Arenas;Alex Arenas;Alberto Fernandez;Sergio Gomez

  • Optimal Network Topologies for Local Search with Congestion

    Roger Guimerà;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Fernando Vega-Redondo;Antonio Cabrales

  • Explosive synchronization transitions in scale-free networks.

    Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes;Sergio Gómez;Alex Arenas;Alex Arenas;Yamir Moreno

  • Structural reducibility of multilayer networks

    Manlio De Domenico;Vincenzo Nicosia;Alexandre Arenas;Vito Latora;Vito Latora

  • The physics of spreading processes in multilayer networks

    Manlio De Domenico;Clara Granell;Mason A. Porter;Mason A. Porter;Alex Arenas

  • Discrete-time Markov chain approach to contact-based disease spreading in complex networks

    S. Gómez;A. Arenas;Javier Borge-Holthoefer;S. Meloni;S. Meloni

  • Communication in networks with hierarchical branching.

    A. Arenas;A. Díaz-Guilera;R. Guimerà

  • Navigability of interconnected networks under random failures

    Manlio De Domenico;Albert Solé-Ribalta;Sergio Gómez;Alex Arenas

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Gómez
Sergio Gómez Rovira i Virgili University
Albert Díaz-Guilera
Albert Díaz-Guilera University of Barcelona
Yamir Moreno
Yamir Moreno University of Zaragoza
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes University of Zaragoza
Roger Guimerà
Roger Guimerà Rovira i Virgili University
Mason A. Porter
Mason A. Porter University of California, Los Angeles
Angel Sánchez
Angel Sánchez Carlos III University of Madrid
Fernando Vega-Redondo
Fernando Vega-Redondo Bocconi University
Yoram Cohen
Yoram Cohen University of California, Los Angeles
Guido Caldarelli
Guido Caldarelli Ca Foscari University of Venice

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