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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carter T. Butts is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans a range of interdisciplinary fields focused primarily within the social sciences. The main field of study for Butts centers on Social Sciences, with subfields including Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence.

Butts's scholarly output demonstrates a strong emphasis on topics such as Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Enzyme Structure and Function, Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, as well as Computational Drug Discovery Methods.

Frequent publication venues for Butts include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Social Networks
  • Journal of Mathematical Sociology
  • Harvard Dataverse

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Butts are:

  • Spatial heterogeneity can lead to substantial local variations in COVID-19 timing and severity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • COVID-19: Retransmission of official communications in an emerging pandemic, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Sequence Characterization and Molecular Modeling of Clinically Relevant Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease, 2020, Biochemistry
  • A cyclic peptide inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2021, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • The First 60 Days: American Public Health Agencies' Social Media Strategies in the Emerging COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, Health Security

Frequent collaborators of Butts include Rachel W. Martin, Elizabeth M. Diessner, John R. Hipp, Gemma R. Takahashi, and Peng Huang. Their repeated partnerships reflect ongoing research activities in their shared areas of interest.

Butts has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2018.

Best Publications

  • ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks.

    David R. Hunter;Mark S. Handcock;Carter T. Butts;Steven M. Goodreau

  • Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs

    Minas Gjoka;Maciej Kurant;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data.

    Mark S. Handcock;David R. Hunter;Carter T. Butts;Steven M. Goodreau

  • Social network analysis: A methodological introduction

    Carter T. Butts

  • Social Network Analysis with sna

    Carter T. Butts

  • Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis

    Carter T. Butts

  • 4. A Relational Event Framework for Social Action

    Carter T. Butts

  • A statnet Tutorial

    Steven M. Goodreau;Mark S. Handcock;David R. Hunter;Carter T. Butts

  • network: A Package for Managing Relational Data in R

    Carter T. Butts

  • Tools for Social Network Analysis

    Carter T. Butts

  • Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks

    M. Gjoka;M. Kurant;C. T. Butts;A. Markopoulou

  • Network inference, error, and informant (in)accuracy: a Bayesian approach

    Carter T. Butts

  • Warning tweets: serial transmission of messages during the warning phase of a disaster event

    Jeannette Sutton;Emma S. Spiro;Britta Johnson;Sean Fitzhugh

  • The interaction of size and density with graph-level indices

    Brigham S. Anderson;Carter T. Butts;Kathleen M. Carley

  • Extended structures of mediation: Re-examining brokerage in dynamic networks

    Emma S. Spiro;Ryan M. Acton;Carter T. Butts

  • Walking on a graph with a magnifying glass: stratified sampling via weighted random walks

    Maciej Kurant;Minas Gjoka;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks

    M. Gjoka;C. T. Butts;M. Kurant;A. Markopoulou

  • Exponential-Family Models of Random Graphs: Inference in Finite, Super and Infinite Population Scenarios

    Michael Schweinberger;Pavel N. Krivitsky;Carter T. Butts;Jonathan R. Stewart

  • A Walk in Facebook: Uniform Sampling of Users in Online Social Networks

    Minas Gjoka;Maciej Kurant;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • Project Rescue: Challenges in Responding to the Unexpected

    Sharad Mehrotra;C. T. Butts;D. Kalashnikov;Nalini Venkatasubramanian

  • Communication and cooperation

    John H. Miller;Carter T. Butts;David Rode

Frequent Co-Authors

Athina Markopoulou
Athina Markopoulou University of California, Irvine
John R. Hipp
John R. Hipp University of California, Irvine
Martina Morris
Martina Morris University of Washington
Padhraic Smyth
Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine
Sharad Mehrotra
Sharad Mehrotra University of California, Irvine
Kathleen M. Carley
Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University
David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine
Konstantinos Psounis
Konstantinos Psounis University of Southern California
Ramesh R. Rao
Ramesh R. Rao University of California, San Diego

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