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Boleslaw K. Szymanski publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Boleslaw K. Szymanski sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 532 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Boleslaw K. Szymanski D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Boleslaw K. Szymanski sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Jierui Xie;Boleslaw K. Szymanski;Xiaoming Liu

  • In-network outlier detection in wireless sensor networks

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

  • Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.

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

  • Community Detection via Maximization of Modularity and Its Variants

    Mingming Chen;Konstantin Kuzmin;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

  • Towards linear time overlapping community detection in social networks

    Jierui Xie;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

  • In-Network Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

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

  • System and method for accessing personal information

    Cheng Hsu;Gregory N Hughes;Boleslaw Szymanski

  • Measuring behavioral trust in social networks

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

  • NETWORK-BASED INTRUSION DETECTION USING NEURAL NETWORKS

    Alan Bivens;Chandrika Palagiri;Rasheda Smith;Boleslaw Szymanski

  • Exploiting Friendship Relations for Efficient Routing in Mobile Social Networks

    E. Bulut;B. K. Szymanski

  • 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

  • Data replication strategies in grid environments

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

  • Simulation of dynamic data replication strategies in Data Grids

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

  • Friendship Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks

    Eyuphan Bulut;Boleslaw K. Szymanski

  • Human-centric sensing.

    Mani Srivastava;Tarek Abdelzaher;Boleslaw Szymanski

  • SENSE: A SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATOR

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

  • Efficient and inefficient ant coverage methods

    Sven Koenig;Boleslaw Szymanski;Yaxin Liu

  • Using humans as sensors: an estimation-theoretic perspective

    Dong Wang;Tanvir Amin;Shen Li;Tarek Abdelzaher

  • SENSE: A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATOR

    Gilbert Chen;Joel Branch;Michael Pflug;Lijuan Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Malik Magdon-Ismail
Malik Magdon-Ismail Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thomas Caraco
Thomas Caraco University at Albany, State University of New York
Balaram Sinharoy
Balaram Sinharoy IBM (United States)
Tarek Abdelzaher
Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph E. Flaherty
Joseph E. Flaherty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Omar Lizardo
Omar Lizardo University of California, Los Angeles
Ewa Deelman
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California
Mohammed J. Zaki
Mohammed J. Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mark S. Shephard
Mark S. Shephard Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Biplab Sikdar
Biplab Sikdar National University of Singapore

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