2026 Boleslaw K. Szymanski: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	66	2324	2254	1158	1117	532	17620

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Polish Academy of Science
1999 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to parallel and distributed computing.

Overview

Boleslaw K. Szymanski is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences, and Computer Science, with a notable focus on subfields such as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas within complex systems and social dynamics. These include:

Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Media and Politics
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Frequent publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Scientific Reports
Entropy
Nature Human Behaviour
Communications Physics

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

James Flamino
G. Korniss
Jianxi Gao
Brendan Cross
Omar Ližardo

Among recent publications, the following papers have been produced:

"Network resilience," 2022, published in Physics Reports
"Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections," 2023, published in Nature Human Behaviour
"Polarization and tipping points," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Optimizing sensors placement in complex networks for localization of hidden signal source: A review," 2020, published in Future Generation Computer Systems
"Using correlated stochastic differential equations to forecast cryptocurrency rates and social media activities," 2020, published in Applied Network Science

Szymanski has been recognized with awards such as membership in the Polish Academy of Science in 2009 and was honored as an IEEE Fellow in 1999 for contributions to parallel and distributed computing.

Best Publications

Overlapping community detection in networks: The state-of-the-art and comparative study

Jierui Xie;Stephen Kelley;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

1504
Citations
SLPA: Uncovering Overlapping Communities in Social Networks via a Speaker-Listener Interaction Dynamic Process

Jierui Xie;Boleslaw K. Szymanski;Xiaoming Liu

614
Citations
In-network outlier detection in wireless sensor networks

Joel W. Branch;Chris Giannella;Boleslaw K. Szymanski;Ran Wolff

596
Citations
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.

Jierui Xie;Sameet Sreenivasan;Gyorgy Korniss;W. Zhang

493
Citations
Community Detection via Maximization of Modularity and Its Variants

Mingming Chen;Konstantin Kuzmin;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

351
Citations
Towards linear time overlapping community detection in social networks

Jierui Xie;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

334
Citations
In-Network Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

J. Branch;B. Szymanski;C. Giannella;Ran Wolff

332
Citations
System and method for accessing personal information

Cheng Hsu;Gregory N Hughes;Boleslaw Szymanski

306
Citations
Measuring behavioral trust in social networks

Sibel Adali;Robert Escriva;Mark K. Goldberg;Mykola Hayvanovych

303
Citations
NETWORK-BASED INTRUSION DETECTION USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Alan Bivens;Chandrika Palagiri;Rasheda Smith;Boleslaw Szymanski

272
Citations
Exploiting Friendship Relations for Efficient Routing in Mobile Social Networks

E. Bulut;B. K. Szymanski

272
Citations
Adaptive Local Refinement with Octree Load Balancing for the Parallel Solution of Three-Dimensional Conservation Laws

J.E. Flaherty;R.M. Loy;M.S. Shephard;B.K. Szymanski

264
Citations
Data replication strategies in grid environments

H. Lamehamedi;B. Szymanski;Z. Shentu;E. Deelman

245
Citations
Simulation of dynamic data replication strategies in Data Grids

H. Lamehamedi;Zujun Shentu;B. Szymanski;E. Deelman

244
Citations
Friendship Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks

Eyuphan Bulut;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

231
Citations
Human-centric sensing.

Mani Srivastava;Tarek Abdelzaher;Boleslaw Szymanski

222
Citations
SENSE: A SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATOR

Gilbert G. Chen;Joel W. Branch;Michael J. Pflug;Li-juan Zhu

221
Citations
Efficient and inefficient ant coverage methods

Sven Koenig;Boleslaw Szymanski;Yaxin Liu

220
Citations
Using humans as sensors: an estimation-theoretic perspective

Dong Wang;Tanvir Amin;Shen Li;Tarek Abdelzaher

218
Citations
SENSE: A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATOR

Gilbert Chen;Joel Branch;Michael Pflug;Lijuan Zhu

218
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Malik Magdon-Ismail Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Balaram Sinharoy IBM (United States)

Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Omar Lizardo University of California, Los Angeles

Ewa Deelman University of Southern California

Mohammed J. Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dong Wang Peking University

Nitesh V. Chawla University of Notre Dame

Biplab Sikdar National University of Singapore

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman Microsoft (India)

External Links

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